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Retrieve DNS Records with Dig
One of the most difficult parts of my job is managing DNS settings. It's not that DNS is a particularly difficult thing to manage, but it's somewhat foreign to me because they don't teach it in school and there are huge consequences for messing things...
Color Palette Generator Using jQuery
As I continue to learn jQuery, I think it's important that I begin by porting over scripts I've created using MooTools. One of those scripts is my Color Palette Generator script, which debuted on Eric Wendelin's blog. For those of you that...
dwClickable: Entire Block Clickable Using MooTools 1.2
I recently received an email from a reader who was really impressed with Block Clickable, a jQuery script that took the link within a list item and made the entire list item clickable. I thought it was a neat script so I...
Thoughts on My First jQuery Experience
Yesterday I debuted my first jQuery script/plugin: dwImageProtector. As a MooTools fanatic, I wasn't sure what to expect from this first jQuery experience. Let me share a few thoughts on the experience. Porting over the original Moo class didn't take very long.
dwImageProtector Plugin for jQuery
I've always been curious about the jQuery JavaScript library. jQuery has captured the hearts of web designers and developers everywhere and I've always wondered why. I've been told it's easy, which is probably why designers were so quick to adopt it NOT that designers...
Weekend Links – mooSlide, Spam-Proof Email Links, JSMiner, MooScroll, Twitter
mooSlide Revamp for MooTools 1.2 mooSlide is a customizable MooTools-based slider that pops into the page whenever and wherever you'd like. Potentially very useful -- just make sure you aren't covering a bunch of content up (like the demo). http://www.artviper.net/test/mooSlide2/index.html Spam-Proof Email Links MooTools core developer...
Download A File and wget
Using the cURL package isn't the only way to download a file. You can also use the wget command to download any URL. The Bash Script I'm guessing that wget and cURL aren't the only ways to download a file, but these are two easy ways...
I’ve Finally Caved: Twitter
I've been holding off on Twitter because I see how obsessed people get with it. Some people post every few minutes...WTF? That said, I've let my gaurd down and become a Twitterer. If you care to, you can follow me at: http://twitter.com/davidwalshblog I wont...
Download A File Using Cygwin and cURL
I'm starting to like using Cygwin more and more. Command line scripting allows me to get the information without all of the hassle. Why should I open Firefox, type in the address, deal with the ads, and click 5 links before I...
August Mailbag Q & A
Last week I called for questions from you. I had received numerous questions via email, ranging in topic from MooTools to PHP to CSS to dogs, and I thought that posting them on the blog may be a better way to do things. Here...