Top 5 PHP Resource Websites

November 30, 2008 No comments yet

PHP is a very vast language. It’s hard to say that you’ve mastered it. For example, do you know how to crop an image using GD and process web requests with XML-RPC off the top of your head? You may know one of them, but probably not both. That being said, there are a lot of resources out there that…

jQuery In Action

November 20, 2008 No comments yet

In an attempt to sharpen up my jQuery, i purchased the book jQuery in Action by Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz. Reading through the book, i could see that the first few chapters were obviously aimed at beginners. They covered selectors (If you know CSS already your fine) and events. You can easily get this information off the jQuery doc site,…

Fedora 9 Package Management

November 20, 2008 No comments yet

Fedora 9 includes the new package manager called Package Kit. It aims to be the package manager for your system, as it can install apts, slackware packages,rpms and many other file formats. I booted into it and noticed 2 things.

  • The first, its incredibly slow - It took along time to download the updates i needed (Slower than downloading a normal…

Layout and UI Designer

November 20, 2008 1 comment

A stumbled across an amazing online app, meant to be like a CAD im guessing but then i realised the different things it could be used for. Project Draw gives you a grid to start off with, you can then place various shapes onto the grid and resize them. Further more you can add colours, text, gradients, alignments and borders which…

More jQuery Effects

November 20, 2008 No comments yet

With the arrival of jQuery UI 1.5 i was browsing its’ wiki pages and learning all of the API. I came across the jQuery UI wiki page, its essentially more jQuery effects except these ones are alot more dynamic! You can explode, puff, slide, highlight and alot more. I was a amazed that i hadn’t seen this page or been…

jQuery UI

November 20, 2008 No comments yet

For those of you with no jQuery background what-so-ever, jQuery UI is a series of user interface (UI) enhancements made in Javascript. These range from tabs (which also support ajax loading), to dialog boxes which you can drag, drop and resize. All cross browser! Although its currently still under development the finish line is in sight for the 1.5 release.…

jQuery Menu Roundup

November 19, 2008 No comments yet

“Whats a good jQuery menu?” is a question I hear quite frequently on blogs and forums. As jQuery is such a simple language to learn, most people code their own for their own sites. I’ve compiled a list of 3 menu plugins, and and 5 ‘custom’ solutions that people have setup.

http://p.sohei.org/jquery-plugins/menu/
Latest release: Jan 07

This plugin was constructed to emulate a…