Announcing The Versioning Podcast

A little over two years ago we launched Versioning, a free email newsletter to send our SitePoint readers daily tidbits mined from all over the web, to keep you amused, informed, and delighted. The response has been tremendous, and we're very proud of what we've built. Along the way we've had the chance to gather a lot of feedback, and we've been listening to what you're asking for.

Today we're excited to announce that we're taking Versioning to a whole new medium, and launching a podcast: The Versioning Show. Our goal is to keep you in touch with the people pushing the envelope on web design and development, mining their brains and sharing their insights and ideas so you can take your own work to the next level.

Think of The Versioning Show as an extra bonus publication just for you, that you can listen to anywhere, anytime, for free. In the spirit of the Versioning newsletter, we'll be keeping the shows short and to the point--usually around half an hour or so. We think that's just enough time to hear what someone cool is working on, and get inspired to go play with some new ideas.

The Hosts

The Versioning Show is hosted by two of our regular SitePoint contributors: Tim Evko and M. David Green. You may have seen their articles and watched their videos on SitePoint, or read their books and taken their courses on SitePoint Premium.

Tim Evko is a front-end developer, writer, and sometimes coherent thinker. You'll most likely hear him talking about performance, progressive enhancement, whiskey, large cuts of meat, or JavaScript. You can find him on Twitter at @tevko.

M. David Green enjoys creating articles, books, videos, and courses around JavaScript, CSS, semantic HTML, and agile engineering practices. He also coaches engineers through Agile That Works, and hosts the Hack the Process podcast. You can find him on Twitter at @mdavidgreen.

How to Get The Versioning Show

The Versioning Show is available right now as a podcast in the iTunes store, and we'll be releasing episodes with transcripts on SitePoint starting next week. We may be adding it to other podcast directories soon if you get in touch and let us know that there's interest. In the meantime, just search for Versioning in your favorite podcast listener, sit back and enjoy the show. (And be sure to leave feedback and a rating in iTunes to let us know what you think!)

Keep In Touch

If you're as excited about The Versioning Show as we are—and why wouldn't you be?—follow us right now on Twitter at @VersioningShow to get the latest information as soon as it comes out. You can also Tweet us there. And who knows, we may have something special planned in the coming weeks for our earliest and most loyal listeners who follow us there....

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Above & Beneath: Featured Content Layout Effect with CSS

Today we’d like to share a little aquatic landing page template with some special effects with you. The idea is to show a big headline in the initial view and when a grid/menu icon is clicked, the view slides down (below the water) and some featured content or menu items get shown. The transitions are accompanied by some fitting background sounds.

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Clipped SVG Slider

A simple slider, with morphing preview images animated using SVG properties.

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21 Digital Marketing Lessons from The Game of Thrones [Infographic]

If you are a Game of Thrones fan you would have just finished watching the Season 6 finale and would be eagerly awaiting the next season. Surely, you can’t wait enough for the battle of the Queens for the Seven Kingdoms.

All major players are moving into Westeros where we await to see how it all ends. Who gets the Throne? What happens to the major characters? What happens to some of the story lines and sub characters?

Whether you are a big Game of Thrones fan or not you can still learn a lot of digital marketing and content marketing tricks from these epic fantasy novels made into a TV series by HBO. Of course, HBO has a huge budget and an army of people working on the “on screen” and “off screen” content but some of the lessons we can learn are very simple and does not cost you an arm, leg or even a trip to the Wall (Night’s Watch).

GoT is a great example of content repurposing from books into a TV series. GoT takes advantage of massive amounts of user generated content. It also has legions of loyal social media followers.

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Quick Tip: How to Throttle Scroll Events

One of the perils of listening to scroll events is performance degradation. The browser will execute the callback every single time the user scrolls, which can be many events per second. If the callback performs a bunch of repaints, this means bad news for the end user. Repaints are expensive, especially when you are redrawing large parts of the view, such as is the case when there is a scroll event.

The example below illustrates the issue:

See the Pen Unthrottled Scroll Events by SitePoint (@SitePoint) on CodePen.

Apart from performance degradation and being prone to causing seizures. This example illustrates what happens when the computer does exactly what you tell it to do. There is no smooth transition between background colors and the screen just flickers. Any hapless programmer may feel as if there is no hope left in this world. Isnʼt there a better way?

Regulating Events

One solution is to defer events and manage a bunch of them at once. There are two commonly used functions that can help us with this: throttle and debounce.

Throttle guarantees a constant flow of events at a given time interval, whereas debounce groups a flurry of events into one single event. One way to think about it is throttle is time-based and debounce is event driven. Throttling guarantees execution while debounce does not once grouping has occurred. If you want to know the specifics, check out this in-depth discussion of debounce versus throttling.

Debounce

Debounce solves a different problem, such as key presses with Ajax. When you type in a form, why would you send a request per keystroke? A more elegant solution is to group a burst of keystrokes into one event that will trigger the Ajax request. This fits within the natural flow of typing and saves server resources. With key presses, the interval between events isn't important, since users donʼt type at a constant rate.

Throttle

Since there are no guarantees with debounce, the alternative is to throttle the scroll events. Scrolling occurs on a given time span, so it is fitting to throttle. Once the user begins scrolling, we want to guarantee execution on a timely basis.

This technique helps with checking if we are at a specific part of the page. Given the size of the page, it takes many seconds to scroll through content. This enables throttling to fire the event only once at any given interval. Event throttling will make the scrolling experience smoother and guarantee execution.

Below is a poor manʼs event throttler in vanilla JavaScript:

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Multiple.js – Sharing Background Across Multiple Elements using CSS

Multiple.js is an experiment in sharing background across multiple elements using CSS.

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Aurelia 1.0 and Meteor 1.4 released, plus an official React app builder

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