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Weekend Links – MooVirtualPano, Syntax Highlighting, Image Crop, PHP Classes, Revision3 Attack

By David Walsh on May 30, 2008

mooVirtualPano

mooVirtualPano is a nice MooTools plugin for panning across elements with overflow. The site employs questionable cursors....ignore those.

http://www.virtual-gadjo.com/mooVirtualPano.php

MooTools Syntax Highlighting for Dreamweaver

If you'd like to add the MooTools functions to your trusty Dreamweaver, this forum post shows you how. If you're a jQuery guy, feel free to use this tutorial to highlight jQuery functions.

http://forum.mootools.net/viewtopic.php?id=10413

mooImageCrop - AJAX Image Crop Utility

ArtViper does some great MooTools work. This time they drop image cropping functionality.

http://www.artviper.net/crop.php

30 Useful PHP Classes and Components

Finding a great PHP class can enhance your productivity and improve your application exponentially. I can vouch for many of these classes and look forward to trying out some of the others.

http://phpimpact.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/30-useful-php-classes-and-components/

Revision3 CEO: Blackout Cause By MediaDefender Attack

MediaDefender went on the offensive and seemingly DOS'd the Revision3 servers. How dare they! How else will people see my article featured on Diggnation?

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080529-revision3-ceo-blackout-caused-by-mediadefender-attack.html

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Discussion

Matthias
These resources are quite nice. Especially the PHP Components are very helpful.

“The site employs questionable cursors….ignore those.” Oh yes. I see an upcoming Web 2.0-trend where websites will have big cursors like that.