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![Create GitHub-Style Buttons with CSS and jQuery, MooTools, or Dojo JavaScript]()
Create GitHub-Style Buttons with CSS and jQuery, MooTools, or Dojo JavaScript
I'm what you would consider a bit of a GitHub fanboy. We all know that GitHub is the perfect place to store repositories of open source code, but I think my love of GitHub goes beyond that. GitHub seems to understand that most...
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MySQL date_add
Here's a quick MySQL tip I wanted to throw your way. I created an event system a while back and one of the requirements of the system was to show events that happened yesterday forward, meaning events older than 2 days were to be hidden.
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Confessions of a Web Developer VIII
It's been a while since I've gotten a few things off of my chest and since I'm always full of peeves and annoyances I thought it was time to unleash: Rock star developers get lots of schwag and job offers every day. It makes me think...
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Create Twitter-Style Buttons with the Dojo Toolkit
I love that JavaScript toolkits make enhancing web pages incredibly easy. Today I'll cover an effect that I've already coded with MooTools: creating a Twitter-style animated "Sign In" button. Check out this five minute tutorial so you can take your static...
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Use Custom Missing Image Graphics Using Dojo
A few months back I posted an article about how you can use your own "missing image" graphics when an image fails to load using MooTools and jQuery. Here's how to do the same using Dojo. The HTML We'll delegate the image to display by class...
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![Animated AJAX Record Deletion Using Dojo]()
Animated AJAX Record Deletion Using Dojo
I'm a huge fan of WordPress' method of individual article deletion. You click the delete link, the menu item animates red, and the item disappears. Here's how to achieve that functionality with Dojo JavaScript. The PHP - Content & Header The following snippet goes at the...
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Create Elements on the Fly with MooTools 1.3 and Slick
As we were so excited to announce last week, MooTools 1.3 beta has been released. MooTools 1.3 marks the introduction of Slick, an ultra flexible, ultra powerful selector engine created by Thomas Aylott, Fabio Costa, and
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Spyjax: Ajax For Evil Using Dojo
The idea of Spyjax is nothing new. In pasts posts I've covered how you can spy on your user's history with both MooTools and jQuery. Today we'll cover how to check user history using the Dojo Toolkit. The HTML For the sake of this...
![Duplicate the jQuery Homepage Tooltips Using Dojo]()
Duplicate the jQuery Homepage Tooltips Using Dojo
The jQuery homepage has a pretty suave tooltip-like effect as seen below: Here's how to accomplish this same effect using Dojo. The XHTML The above HTML was taken directly from the jQuery homepage -- no changes. The CSS The above CSS has been slightly modified to match the CSS rules already...
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Create Custom Element Property Getters and Setters with MooTools
One of the goals of the MooTools projects is to create very flexible methods by which developers may modify or extend the behavior of given classes. One example of that flexibility is the ability to customize the Element class' get and set methods for specified...
