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    AJAX For Evil: Spyjax with jQuery

    Last year I wrote a popular post titled AJAX For Evil: Spyjax when I described a technique called "Spyjax": Spyjax, as I know it, is taking information from the user's computer for your own use — specifically their browsing habits. By using CSS and JavaScript, I...

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    Using MooTools Periodicals

    If I were to explain MooTools in a sentence I'd say "MooTools makes common JavaScript tasks exponentially easier and the code more elegant." Dealing with intervals in JavaScript is fairly simple but not so elegant. Here's MooTools's take on setInterval. Basic Function.periodical Usage The above function...

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    Search Type Options with MooTools

    Advanced search engines like Google, Yahoo!, and Bing have discovered the obvious: one type of search isn't good enough. The big search engines offer web search, video search, code search, blog search, image search, and any other type of search you can think of.

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    Confessions Friday

    Over the past two years I've run my Confessions of a Web Developer series.  Each one has been really popular and well-received.  It's Friday and I've had a bad week so today I want you to confess your web development sins in the comment section below. ...

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    Fix WordPress CRONs on Media Temple (dv) Servers

    When I switched from Dreamhost shared hosting to Media Temple (dv) server hosting, I had a hell of a time trying to figure out why CRONs weren't working correctly on the website. I had database backups being sent via CRON jobs so making sure CRONs...

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    Get a URL’s Reddit Score Using PHP and JSON

    Since we can see Digg turning more into a funny-pic-and-vid site each day, I've turned my attention to Reddit. Reddit just seems more controlled and programmer-friendly. Since I have respect for Reddit I thought I'd put together a quick tutorial on how you can...

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    When Webmasters Attack!

    CSS-Tricks scribe Chris Coyier wrote a great post titled What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like where he outlined (with a great image, no less) how a great HTML/PHP file looks when proper programming practices are used. The post was so popular that the featured...

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    Bold Web Predictions for 2010

    With another year coming to a close, it's time to look toward the near future. The following are my predictions for the web in 2010. Twitter will steal a bit of Google's search thunder. Twitter challenge Google search? You bet. The advantage twitter has over...

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    Fixing mod_rewrite and .htaccess on GoDaddy Hosting

    I recently launched a new website on GoDaddy shared hosting. The website required mod_rewrite for SEO-friendly URLs. GoDaddy provides mod_rewrite but every time I tried to hit a two-deep URL, I would get a 404 error. Here's what I had: The fix to this...

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    New York Times-Style Text Selection Widget Using MooTools or jQuery

    Aaron Newton made a great request to me last week: why not make my MooTools Documentation Bookmarklet function more like the New York Time's text selection widget. NYT's text selection widget listens for text selection and presents the user with a "search" icon...