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7 Excellent Treehouse Blog Posts
My sponsor Treehouse has not only an excellent video tutorial service, but also an insightful blog. I wanted to feature a few of the posts I found most useful -- hopefully you get something out of them! Extending Placeholder Selectors with...
MooTools Zebra Table Plugin
I released my first MooTools class over a year ago. It was a really minimalistic approach to zebra tables and a great first class to write. I took some time to update and improve the class. The XHTML You may have as many tables as...
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...
Weekend Links – JavaScript Time Picker, Cuil Search, AJAX Site Thumbnails, IE6, Twitter
Javascript Time Picker This new MooTools-based script allows you to pick a specific time by dragging and dropping hour and minute hands. Pretty cool, although I'm not sure it makes picking times on forms much easier. http://www.nogray.com/time_picker.php Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine A...
Weekend Links – Firebug Extensions, Updating Firefox Extensions, jQuery Puzzles, Digg/Google Sale
The Fire Best Firebug Extensions Firebug is a powerhouse in itself, but why not install some Firebug plugins to make it even more useful? http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/The_Five_Best_Firebug_Extensions Updating Extensions for Firefox 3 Have a Firefox plugin that you want to use in the newest version, but it isn't officially...
Weekend Links – Google Maps API, HeatMap API, googleDrive, MooTools Forms, jQuery Sparklines, Firebug
Density Map Tutorial -- Prototype, Google Maps API, and the HeatMap API HeatMap allows you to create heat maps on top of Google Analytics. A very impressive script that requires little code from the developer. http://jeffreybarke.net/2008/07/density-map-tutorial/ googleDrive googleDrive is a script written by PhatFusion. Why...
Weekend Links – MooWheel, mooZoom, eXtplorer, YSlow, Cygwin Find
MooWheel: A JavaScript Connections Visualization Library MooWhool is an unbelievable feat. This visualization library builds connections from the data you pass to it...all with MooTools! You have to see this to really understand its power. http://www.unwieldy.net/moowheel/ Should Links Open In New Windows? Yes. Next...
Weekend Links – jQuery Progress Bar, jQuery Kwicks, Bill Gates Email, MooTools Plugins
jQuery Progress Bar 1.1 This jQuery progress bar is as good as it gets. The progress bar animates to the next step and is very lightweight. http://t.wits.sg/2008/06/20/jquery-progress-bar-11/ Kwicks 1.5 Released! Jeremy Martin has released a new version of his jQuery Kwicks plugin. Jeremy's added more options and smoother...
Weekend Links – Yahoo! Sprite Generator, Dojo AIM Modules, Clientside MooTools 1.2 Plugins, Speed Photoshop
Yahoo's Secret Text-Sprite Generator Chris was snooping around Yahoo's source code and found a sprite generator. It's a really nice way to create headers. I helped Chris make his jQuery work with space, but don't tell him I told you! http://css-tricks.com/yahoos-secret-text-sprite-generator/ Dojo Modules for...
Weekend Links – MooTools Cheat Sheet, Google / Digg Acquisition, PHP Twitter API, Bot Detection, CSS Support In Email Clients
MooTools 1.2 Cheat Sheet As you know, MooTools 1.2 was officially released this week. As great as the online documentation is, wouldn't you rather have an all-on-one-sheet reference card? Of course. If you're a Moo programmer, you must download this cheat sheet.