Tutorials Page 131

• By David WalshOctober 29, 2012

  CSS Kwicks

  One of the effects that made me excited about client side and JavaScript was the Kwicks effect.  Take a list of items and react to them accordingly when hovered.  Simple, sweet.  The effect was originally created with JavaScript but come five years later, our...

• By David WalshOctober 26, 2012

  Build IRC Bots with Node.js

  One of the tasks on my WebDev bucket list has always been creating a functional IRC bot.  I have no clue why it's been high on my list, but ... it just has.  IRC bots are used for a variety of things:  Google search, keyword detection...

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• By Jeremy MartinOctober 25, 2012

  Rolling Your Own RSS Feed with Express and Jade

  RSS feeds are a great way to facilitate a loyal readership. In fact, as I write this, the RSS feed in David's sidebar is touting over 11,400 subscribers. Hitting the front page of Hacker News is always nice, but for most sites that's not...

• By David WalshOctober 24, 2012

  Get the jQuery Version

  Many JavaScript frameworks provide a version property on their main object, providing a quick bit of important information about the framework.  The main jQuery object doesn't provide this property, however, so developers need to do a bit more work to get that version information.  Here's how...

• By David WalshOctober 24, 2012

  WordPress AJAX Comments

  There are many functionalities on the web that were just begging to be AJAXified.  Whether it be voting on a poll or simply commenting on a blog post, there's really no reason to reload an entire page for something so simple.  This blog has featured AJAX...

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• By David WalshOctober 18, 2012

  CSS Fade

  Web developers have been using fade ins and fade outs (basic opacity animation) on their website for years, but the effect needed to be accomplished using JavaScript because CSS didn't have the capability to complete animations.  The tides have turned:  CSS fading is now possible...

• By Chris CoyierOctober 17, 2012

  Chris Coyier: Perspective of a Preprocessor, About a Year In

  I've been using CSS preprocessors for about a year now. I gave all of them a try. LESS first, then Stylus, then Sass. All on real projects, not just poking around and tinkering with syntax. They are all pretty good. The truth is, developer to developer...

• By David WalshOctober 16, 2012

  Giveaway: $250 BuySellAds.com Credit!

  When I first created this blog, I used Google AdSense as my advertising avenue.  It was horrible -- no one ever clicked on ads and, simply put, there seems to be no real money in using that service.  I graduated on to managing my...

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• By Greg KobergerOctober 16, 2012

  Making the Firefox Logo from HTML

  When each new t-shirt means staving off laundry for yet another day, swag quickly becomes the most coveted perk at any tech company. Mozilla WebDev had pretty much everything going for it: brilliant people, interesting problems, awesome office. Everything except a t-shirt. That had to change. The basic...

• By Edna PiranhaOctober 15, 2012

  Game Configuration with JSON

  The Scenario For the past month or so, I've been spending some time making web games using Node and Express. One thing I wanted to do was reduce reliance on content management via database, where the typical process is the following: Log into the site Validate that I have...