After just sitting there collecting dust for a while, Slideshowify is back and better than ever. New updates include CSS3 support (provided via @rstacruz‘s excellent jquery.transit.js plugin), animation as well as zooming in both directions and better browser support – …
I recently set out to learn Python, specifically on the Flask (+Werkzeug/Jinja2) microframework, and did so through developing a tool for iStocphoto.com contributors. The result is iStockutils.com, and the code is available for viewing/forking on GitHub. I still have much …
My tutorial on processing XML with jQuery in the browser is now live on IBM’s developerWorks website. Check it out at: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-processxmljquerytut/index.html Most JavaScript and jQuery ninjas needn’t read past the title for the gist, but hopefully there’s something new …
I recently had a chance to make a few updates to the Live XML Editor and address some user requests. Version 1.5 is now done and out. Among the updates are: – jQuery 1.4 support. Since the editor relies heavily …
Slideshowify is a jQuery plugin for creating a slideshow of images that will fill the screen with a (cropped) image, then pan across to reveal the rest of it. This is commonly referred to as the Ken Burns Effect and …
While I don’t recommend editing XML files by hand, its not an uncommon task and I occasionally find myself having to do it. As I am a big advocate of web based applications, I was hoping to find a web …
If you’re not using jQuery’s .live() method you are really missing out. live() works by storing a selector-to-handler mapping in an internal hash which allows it to execute the handler for all existing and future elements which match that selector. …
Edited on October 7th: I realized after the original post that the code provided was not entirely correct. Specifically, it ignored CDATA values. Methods below have been updated to reflect that fix. The logic for extracting the text values is …
A colleague of mine sent out a link to a very resourceful page containing very helpful cheat sheets for web developers. Get them here: http://www.webappers.com/2008/11/05/best-cheat-sheets-for-web-developers/ I haven’t seen the WebAppers site before, but it definitely deserves a bookmark and periodic …
We see fading headlines on the Apple site as well as lots of news and media websites. Rather than listing all of headlines in a “stack”, they use much less real estate by having all headlines displayed in a smaller …