The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymore
What happens when all the things we based our icons on don’t exist anymore? Do they just become, ahem, iconic glyphs whose origins are shrouded in mystery?
The online whiteboard of Kristofer Palmvik
What happens when all the things we based our icons on don’t exist anymore? Do they just become, ahem, iconic glyphs whose origins are shrouded in mystery?
The assumption being that for every totally-amped developer who is always striving to get better, there’s at least 10 developers who are saying, "Hey, it’s 5:01pm, I’ve just checked in massive changes, can I punch out?"
With JavaScript we can detect when our CDN-hosted JavaScript resources like jQuery or jQuery UI aren’t loaded successfully and try again to load them from local locations. The basic idea for CDN fallback is to check for a type or variable that should be present after a script load, and if it’s not there, try getting that script locally.
We are building first-class support for both Grunt and Gulp in Visual Studio "14" with full extensibility. Now we’re ready to ship a preview of this support as an extension to VS2013 and would appreciate your help testing and exploring this feature.