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![Book Review: MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide]()
Book Review: MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide
In the interest in full disclosure, I was sent this book by Packt Publishing in hopes that I would review it. I'm reviewing this book, however, in the interest of my audience. Unless you live under a rock or simply check my site for Christina...
![Create Twitter-Style Dropdowns Using MooTools]()
Create Twitter-Style Dropdowns Using MooTools
Twitter does some great stuff with JavaScript. What I really appreciate about what they do is that there aren't any epic JS functionalities -- they're all simple touches. One of those simple touches is the "Login" dropdown on their homepage. I've taken...
![Introducing MooTools NextPrev]()
Introducing MooTools NextPrev
One thing I love doing is duplicating OS functionalities. One of the things your OS allows you to do easily is move from one item to another. Most of the time you're simply trying to get to the next or the previous item.
![Create a Simple News Scroller Using Dojo]()
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...
![Link Nudging Using Dojo]()
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
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...










