Workaday Readings are the droll, dry, and dear pages I continuously tick through during my day.

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components



"The architecture of the Video.js player is centered around components. The Player class and all classes representing player controls and other UI elements inherit from the Component class. This architecture makes it easy to construct the user interface of the Video."

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Git Catastrophes and Tips to Avoid Them



"In this post, I'd like to highlight some git features that might be less used/known, but can end up saving your @$$ when things go south in the codebase. Fortunately, it is really hard to irrevocably mess something up with git, as long as you have the .git hidden folder in your project intact!"

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Global space



"Without any namespace definition, all class and function definitions are placed into the global space - as it was in PHP before namespaces were supported. Prefixing a name with \ will specify that the name is required from the global space even in the context of the namespace."

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HTTP 2 Server Push



"A year ago, I posted an article explaining the general concept of HTTP 2.0. Today we can finally use it for building websites as it is now supported by major browsers. This article will focus on HTTP 2.0 - Server Push, from what it is, the problems it solves, how to implement it (using commons."

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