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    Creating Plugins for SnackJS

    My SnackJS: A Tiny-But-Tasty JavaScript Framework post exposed you to Ryan Florence's new JavaScript framework called SnackJS.  SnackJS' motto is "Because sometimes, all you need is a snack" , and for good reason:  this 3KB micro-framework provides the functionality you need for most websites...

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    MooTools History Plugin

    One of the reasons I love AJAX technology so much is because it allows us to avoid unnecessary page loads.  Why download the header, footer, and other static data multiple times if that specific data never changes?  It's a waste of time, processing, and bandwidth.  Unfortunately...

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    Google PageRank PHP Class

    While developers and designers can debate about the important of different search engine optimizations strategies, one metric that simply can't be argued is a website's Google PageRank, or its importance in driving traffic to the site.  Achieving a better PageRank was a consideration when redesigning this...

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    Creating Mobile Web Applications with dojox.mobile

    I recently was asked to study the Dojo Toolkit's budding mobile solution, dojox.mobile, and create a basic web application using the tools provided.  I hadn't heard of dojox.mobile before but was very excited at the prospect of becoming a skilled mobile developer and maybe...

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    iPhone-Style Password Inputs with Appcelerator Titanium

    Most mobile applications ask you for your credential so that they may verify your account and pull information via an API.  My mobile application is no different.  The problem I ran into was that I couldn't find the method by which to emulate the iPhone's password...

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    Create a Blank Favicon with Data

    I was recently setting up a virtual host and diving into development when I needed to debug a JavaScript issue.  One thing that started annoying me right away was the console message notifying me that the favicon.ico file couldn't be found.  I hadn't put one there...

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    Recursively Delete .svn Directories

    Version control systems are hugely important when it comes to development of all kinds.  I'm a huge fan of git but sometimes I'm required to use SVN.  Unfortunately I tend to forget to remove .svn folders when I copy and paste from a directory structure template.

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    Dojo Toolkit API Bookmarklet

    You probably know by know that I enjoy using JavaScript-powered bookmarklets to retrieve information.  I create a jQuery documentation bookmarklet, a MooTools class sniffer bookmarklet, and a  even a bookmarklet to allow you to submit articles to Script & Style.  I work extensively with...

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    Android Detection with JavaScript or PHP

    I've noticed that two of my blog posts continue to get more popular each week:  iPad Detection with JavaScript or PHP and iPhone and iPad detection with JavaScript or PHP. What's obvious is that Android development is a hot topic that will only...

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    JSONP with jQuery, MooTools, and Dojo

    We all know that the big limitation of AJAX is that cross-domain requests aren't allowed.  We also know, however, that we skirt around that rule a bit by using JSONP.  JSONP is the process of SCRIPT tag injection, referencing a cross-domain URL and providing a callback...