• CSS Tab Designer Create great-looking css-based tabs/menus effortlessly! (tags: css design software) The Next 35 Sexiest Designed Websites You’ve Forgotten CSS 2 reference with examples (tags: css reference) Scriptaculous Cheat Sheet #1 (tags: cheatsheet) Bokardo » 7 Reasons Why Web Apps Fail I’m not one to believe that we’re in a Bubble 2.0 or anything [...]

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  • Ajax RSS reader Learn how to build an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) Really Simple Syndication (RSS) reader, as well as a Web component that you can place on any Web site to look at the articles in the RSS feeds. (tags: ajax mysql php rss tutorial) FIX IT – Click to activate and use [...]

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  • Here’s a JavaScript function that serializes a JavaScript array into a form that PHP can later unserialize: function js_array_to_php_array (a) // This converts a javascript array to a string in PHP serialized format. // This is useful for passing arrays to PHP. On the PHP side you can // unserialize this string from a cookie [...]

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  • Here’s an article that’s about a year old but getting some attention on reddit: Dave Astels’ blog entry titled A New Look at Test-Driven Development. He argues that the way most people view unit testing leads them to “divide tests in a way that reflects the structural arrangement of the code”, and I think he’s [...]

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  • ONLamp.com — Improve Your Build Process with Ant Building PHP applications using Ant (tags: ant build php)

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  • Since Microsoft lost a legal battle on how they display multimedia conent in their browser, they’ve had to the change the way these content displays on screen. Now a user has to click these elements to start playing the flash animation. This affects Flash files, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Java , Adobe Acrobat among others. It means [...]

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  • I’m not sure where on the hype curve we are with AJAX, but one of the open question for businesses is: why and where should you consider using AJAX? I give ten places, in declining order of urgency, where the use of AJAX should be considered. Most of this innovation will be undertaken without all [...]

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  • Spell with flickr

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    Here’s a cool site which allows you to spell out words using Flikr. Here’s what came out.

    v I I shot the serif U

    If you’d like to start spelling your name this way, head over to :http://metaatem.net/words.php

    Tags: spell, flikr, api

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  • Advanced Graphing Class from Zack Bloom allows you to create stunning graphs from your PHP applications. Here’s a sample graph example to show you how easy it to generate a graph using this class $graph = new graph(); $graph->setProp(“showkey”,true); $graph->setProp(“type”,”pie”); $graph->setProp(“showgrid”,false); $graph->setProp(“key”,array(‘alpha’,'beta’, ‘gamma’,'delta’,'pi’)); $graph->setProp(“keywidspc”,-50); $graph->setProp(“benchmark”,true); $graph->setProp(“keyinfo”,2); $graph->demoData(5,1,10); $graph->graph(); $graph->showGraph(‘images/exa19.png’); More Graph Examples at:Advanced Graphing Class [...]

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  • Here’s a cool set of Javascript Widgets, unfortunately the library is not free, but a good place to see what Javascript can actually acomplish on the client side. ActiveWidgets is a powerful javascript component library which makes web application development (especially AJAX-style apps) a lot easier and more productive. ActiveWidgets provides you with a set [...]

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