David Walsh Tutorials
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Create a Simple News Scroller Using Dojo
My journey into Dojo JavaScript has been exciting and I'm continuing to learn more as I port MooTools scripts to Dojo. My latest experiment is porting a simple new scroller from MooTools to Dojo. The code is very similar! The HTML The news items...
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“MooTools as a General Purpose Application Framework” by Christoph Pojer
I wanted to bring attention to an outstanding presentation given by MooTools Core Developer Christoph Pojer. Given at FOSDEM 2010, Christoph provides an overview of what MooTools is, who should use it, how it should be used. Examples are given...
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Remove Broken Images Using Dojo
In an effort to get better with the Dojo Toolkit, I've decided to port yet another one of my previous posts: Remove Broken Images Using MooTools or jQuery. Broken images are an eyesore to any website so there's no point to keeping them...
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Link Nudging Using Dojo
In the past we've tinkered with link nudging with MooTools and link nudging with jQuery. In an effort to familiarize myself with other JavaScript frameworks, we're going to try to duplicate that effect with another awesome framework: Dojo. The JavaScript: Attempt...
![jQuery Podcast & Essential jQuery and MooTools Snippets]()
jQuery Podcast & Essential jQuery and MooTools Snippets
Many of you probably already know this but I like to consider myself a bit of a JavaScript chameleon. If you know that then you probably know I'm a MooTools fanatic that periodically dabbles with jQuery. I'm happy to announce that I...
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![Fixing Python’s “Python Eggs” Error]()
Fixing Python’s “Python Eggs” Error
Let me first state this for the record: I am not a server guy. The closest I've ever gotten to compiling my own versions of code is "sudo port install ..." So when I decided to teach myself Python (creating simply database interaction...
![Create a Simple News Scroller Using MooTools, Part I: The Basics]()
Create a Simple News Scroller Using MooTools, Part I: The Basics
News scroller have been around forever on the internet. Why? Because they're usually classy and effective. Over the next few weeks, we'll be taking a simple scroller and making it into a flexible, portable class. We have to crawl before we...
![Create a Simple Slideshow Using MooTools, Part IV: Thumbnails and Captions]()
Create a Simple Slideshow Using MooTools, Part IV: Thumbnails and Captions
My "Create a Simple Slideshow Using MooTools" series has been hugely successful. The first step was laying the groundwork for the slideshow, the second step was adding controls and events to the slideshow, and the third step was recoding the slideshow...
![NetTuts: Make Your MooTools Code Shorter, Faster, and Stronger]()
NetTuts: Make Your MooTools Code Shorter, Faster, and Stronger
My latest NetTuts tutorial has hit! From the post: MooTools is one of the most flexible, modular, and well written JavaScript frameworks available. So many people use it but many of them don't optimize their code. This post will...
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Create an Animated Sliding Button Using MooTools
Buttons (or links) are usually the elements on our sites that we want to draw a lot of attention to. Unfortunately many times they end up looking the most boring. You don't have to let that happen though! I recently found a...
