How jQuery Beginners can Test and Improve their Code
Nettuts+
29 April 2010 17:04
jQuery’s arrival has made the process writing JavaScript laughably easy. But, you’ll notice that making small changes to your code improves the readability and/or performance significantly. Here are some tips to get you on your way to optimizing your code.
Setting up the Platform
We’ll need a solid platform to conduct our tests. Here is the [...]
Working with Advanced 3D CSS: New Premium Screencast
Nettuts+
28 April 2010 21:04
CSS is capable of so much more than browsers can currently handle, namely when it comes to working in 3D spaces. In this week’s premium video tutorial, I’m going to teach you how to work with CSS transitions, animations, and specifically how to work with Webkit’s CSS 3D capabilities. Help give back to Nettuts+ by [...]
Introducing Moneybookers Payment & Pre-paid Premium Memberships
Nettuts+
28 April 2010 21:04
Always wanted to go Premium but don’t have a PayPal account, or a credit card linked to your PayPal account? Well, we have good news! Thanks to the stellar work of our developers, we can now accept payments from a Moneybookers account. We hope this will open Tuts+ Premium Memberships to a lot more people.
Even [...]
Win FusionCharts Licenses worth $5,000
Nettuts+
28 April 2010 18:04
How would you like your web reports to look wow with animated Flash charts? You would love it, wouldn’t you? We have just the right thing for you.
FusionCharts is generously giving away seven Professional Licenses for its flagship product, FusionCharts v3 (worth $499 each), to our readers. Using it, you can create great-looking animated [...]
How to Build a Simple Twitter Widget with ASP.NET
Nettuts+
27 April 2010 19:04
In this tutorial, I’ll be walking you through how to a write a Twitter widget for ASP.NET in the form of a reusable server control complete with nice things such as automatically turning URLs into links, and caching to speed up page load times.
Step 1 Getting Started
To follow this tutorial, all you need [...]
9 Useful PHP Functions and Features You Need to Know
Nettuts+
27 April 2010 16:04
Even after using PHP for years, we stumble upon functions and features that we did not know about. Some of these can be very useful, yet underused. Not all of us have read the manual and the function reference from cover to cover!
1. Functions with Arbitrary Number of Arguments
You may already know that PHP allows [...]
Color Inspiration: Awesome Red Websites
Nettuts+
27 April 2010 06:04
Red is a very powerful and strong color. It’s associated with a variety of things, from courage and bravery to warnings and danger. It’s also, of course, strongly tied to love and passion.
It’s a popular color in website design, though, due to its boldness, it’s most commonly used as an accent color. With that said, [...]
Quick Tip: Loop Through Folders with PHP’s Glob()
Nettuts+
27 April 2010 01:04
Are you still using opendir() to loop through folders in PHP? Doesn’t that require a lot of repetitive code everytime you want to search a folder? Luckily, PHP’s glob() is a much smarter solution.
Introduction
Here’s an example of echoing out some information from a folder, using the traditional opendir() function.
$dir = "/etc/php5/";
// Open a known directory, [...]
Quick Tip: Ever Thought About Using @Font-face for Icons?
Nettuts+
23 April 2010 16:04
The evolution of Internet technologies never ceases to amaze. Seemingly daily, new concepts and techniques are being thought up by creative and talented people. With modern browsers being adopted at a greater rate, systems like CSS3 are becoming more and more viable for use on projects of all sizes. Clearly, this can be seen by [...]
A jQuery UI and .Net Image Organizer
Nettuts+
23 April 2010 15:04
Over the course of this tutorial we’ll look at how to create a simple image organizer that lets users reorder a series of images; this functionality could be useful on any kind of image-based site where users have a collection of images that they have uploaded or otherwise added to their profile or account. We’ll [...]
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