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MooTools Overlay Plugin
Overlays have become a big part of modern websites; we can probably attribute that to the numerous lightboxes that use them. I've found a ton of overlay code snippets out there but none of them satisfy my taste in code. Many of them are...
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Create a Simple Slideshow Using MooTools
One excellent way to add dynamism to any website is to implement a slideshow featuring images or sliding content. Of course there are numerous slideshow plugins available but many of them can be overkill if you want to do simple slideshow without controls or events.
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Replace NOBR Tags with CSS
This is just a simple tip for those still clinging to NOBR HTML tags. The NOBR tag, for those who haven't seen them before, prevent a selection of text from being "broken" into multiple lines. It looks something like this: While NOBR tags still work...
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Add Events to the PHP Calendar
In a previous blog post I detailed how to create a basic calendar using PHP and then showed you how to add controls to that calendar. This post will detail how you may efficiently pull events from a MySQL table and display those...
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MooTools Forge / GitHub Plugin Structure Shell Script
One thing I love about the MooTools Forge is that it requires a strict structure for its plugins i.e. requiring a README.md file, Source directory, etc. I've created a shell script that I can run that creates the directory structure and files required to add...
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Limiting Variable Scope Using (function(){})();
Simply put, a scope limiter is a self-executing function that defines a variables, performs a task, and clears those variables so that their scope is limited to the function itself. Take the following JavaScript code, for example: Everything above works but the second task can "see"...
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Forge: MooTools Plugin Repository
Today marks a huge day in the history of the MooTools project: the public release of the MooTools Forge. The Forge is masterful plugin repository system created by MooTools Core Developer Guillermo Rauch. The Forge currently features numerous plugins created by the Contributors...
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Simple PHP Caching and Content Retrieval Function
One way to make your website exponentially faster is by caching both remote and internal requests. Why request your RSS subscriber count from FeedBurner more than once a day if that count is calculated once per day? Why hit your database on each page...
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iPhone-Style Passwords Using MooTools PassShark
Every once in a while I come across a plugin that blows me out of the water and the most recent culprit is PassShark: a MooTools plugin that duplicates the iPhone's method of showing/hiding the last character in a password field. This gem of...
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Google Wave Invites Giveaway
Over the past months I've given away dozens of Google Wave invites via my Twitter feed. Selfless? Yes. Kind? Of course. Generous? Always. So far I've simply given them away but now we're going to play a new game! The...
