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Dive Into Dojo Series: Dive Into Dojo Chart Theming
I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about my latest Dive Into Dojo post: Dive Into Dojo Chart Theming The previous installment of the Dive Into Dojo series shows how easy it is to Dive Into Dojo Charting to get started with Dojo’s charting library. It comes with dozens of stylish themes you [...]
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- Dive Into Dojo Series: Dijit and Charting
- Remove Broken Images Using Dojo
- Accomplishing Common Tasks Using MooTools, jQuery, and Dojo
- Quick Dojo Setup Snippet for MooTools Developers
- SitePen: Creating and Enhancing Dojo Classes
Posted on 29 July 2010 | 2:17 pm
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HTML5: Wrap Block-Level Elements with A’s
HTML5 presents a simpler line of thought with HTML than XHTML. And quite honestly, it’s a much needed simplification. One of those simplifications is the ability to wrap block-level elements like DIVs, H-tags, and P’s with basic A elements. You read that correctly: wrap block-level elements with A tags. HTML5 Code <body> <a href="/about-page.php"> <div class="article"> [...]
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- dwClickable: Entire Block Clickable Using MooTools 1.2
- Track Clicks Outside Active Elements with MooTools or jQuery
- HTML5 Link Prefetching
- HTML5 classList API
- Dress Up Your Select Elements with FauxSelect
Posted on 26 July 2010 | 4:39 pm
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Build HTML Tables From MySQL Tables with PHP
I was recently completing a project which required that I build a series of HTML tables which would represent all of the tables within a MySQL database. I didn’t have anything created but after a few minutes I had exactly what I needed. Hopefully this helps you out! View Demo The CSS table.db-table { border-right:1px solid [...]
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Full David Walsh Blog Post: Build HTML Tables From MySQL Tables with PHP
- PHP / MySQL Database Optimization Function
- Backup Your MySQL Database Using PHP
- Build a Calendar Using PHP, XHTML, and CSS
- PHP, Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), and IIS: Connect and Query with ODBC
- Create a Basic Web Service Using PHP, MySQL, XML, and JSON
Posted on 21 July 2010 | 4:55 pm
Source: David Walsh :: PHP, CSS, MooTools, jQuery, and Everything Else
More often than not, I find myself wanting to upload more than one file at a time. Having to use multiple “file” INPUT elements is annoying, slow, and inefficient. And if I hate them, I can’t imagine how annoyed my users would be. Luckily Safari, Chrome, and Firefox have implemented a method by which users [...]
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Full David Walsh Blog Post: Multiple File Upload Input
- Basic File Uploading Using PHP
- Increase PHP’s File Upload Limit Using php.ini
- Using Form Input Arrays For Checkboxes
- Basic PHP File Handling — Create, Open, Read, Write, Append, Close, and Delete
- Create a Zip File Using PHP
Posted on 19 July 2010 | 1:26 pm
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Using SCRIPT’s defer Attribute
One of the seldom used attributes within the HTML tag library is the defer attribute on SCRIPT elements. As you can probably tell by the name of the attribute, defer instructs the contents of the script tag to not execute until the page has loaded. Take a look! Deferring Your Scripts <script> //do stuff (runs first) [...]
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- Script & Style Revamp with Submission Favelet
- You Script. You Style. Introducing Script & Style.
- Script & Style Exclusive: Add Custom Values To Your WordPress RSS Feed
- Add the Script & Style Feed to Your Website
- Async Google Analytics
Posted on 16 July 2010 | 1:18 pm
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Sexy Link Transformations with CSS
I was recently visiting MooTools Developer Christoph Pojer’s website and noticed a sexy link hover effect: when you hover the link, the the link animates and tilts to the left or the right. To enhance the effect, the background color of the link is changed. I scoped out his JavaScript file to see how he [...]
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Full David Walsh Blog Post: Sexy Link Transformations with CSS
- Rotate Elements with CSS Transformations
- Sexy Opacity Animation with MooTools or jQuery
- MooTools Link Fading
- Create an Animated Sliding Button Using MooTools
- Create Twitter-Style Buttons with the Dojo Toolkit
Posted on 14 July 2010 | 1:17 pm
Source: David Walsh :: PHP, CSS, MooTools, jQuery, and Everything Else
Dive Into Dojo Series: Dijit and Charting
I just wanted to give you all a heads up that I’ve started a Dive Into Dojo series over on the SitePen blog. The series will aim to cover the basics of jumping into the world of the Dojo Toolkit. The first two posts in the series focus on the amazing charting and Dijit UI [...]
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Full David Walsh Blog Post: Dive Into Dojo Series: Dijit and Charting
- Dive Into Dojo Series: Dive Into Dojo Chart Theming
- SitePen: Creating and Enhancing Dojo Classes
- Monkey Patching Dojo’s Menu Dijit
- Remove Broken Images Using Dojo
- Accomplishing Common Tasks Using MooTools, jQuery, and Dojo
Posted on 14 July 2010 | 5:28 am
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Having thrust myself into the world of JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries, I’ve often wondered: When are browser vendors going to see the helper methods/libraries created by the JavaScript toolkits and implement these functionalities natively within the browser? I realize that standards are important and browser vendors can’t afford to half-ass these implementations but I do [...]
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Full David Walsh Blog Post: HTML5 classList API
- Using HTML5 Web Storage
- HTML5 Link Prefetching
- HTML5: Wrap Block-Level Elements with A’s
- QuickBoxes for Dojo
- Set Up Your WordPress Blog To Allow Trackback Toggling
Posted on 13 July 2010 | 1:38 pm
Source: David Walsh :: PHP, CSS, MooTools, jQuery, and Everything Else
ServerSide JavaScript with MooTools and NodeJS
This post was authored by Christoph Pojer. To learn more about Christoph, click here. This blog post is intended to provide a starting point for ServerSide JavaScript (SSJS) development with MooTools. It is focused on NodeJS (http://nodejs.org) and tries to explain the main concepts and differences from client side development. It is solely based on [...]
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- Create a GitHub Merge Batch File
- Follow MooTools on GitHub!
- Create GitHub-Style Buttons with CSS and jQuery, MooTools, or Dojo JavaScript
- Replace All Occurrences of a String in JavaScript
- Image onLoad Event + JavaScript Issue with Internet Explorer
Posted on 12 July 2010 | 2:07 pm
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GET OVER IT! 6 Things Web Developers Need to Get Over
One of the downsides of being around developers of varying skill levels, from noob to Open Source legend, is that everyone has an opinion…and they’re all wrong. Every one of them. Of course, me being a developer, I’m wrong too. There are a few things, however, that I hear frequently and want nothing more than [...]
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Full David Walsh Blog Post: GET OVER IT! 6 Things Web Developers Need to Get Over
- The 7 Major Roadblocks That Cripple Web Developers and The Internet
- Dear Developers, Don’t Hardcode Copyright Years
- Quick Dojo Setup Snippet for MooTools Developers
- How I Format My CSS Files
- Using SCRIPT’s defer Attribute
Posted on 8 July 2010 | 1:53 pm
Source: David Walsh :: PHP, CSS, MooTools, jQuery, and Everything Else
