Weekend Links – Google Maps API, HeatMap API, googleDrive, MooTools Forms, jQuery Sparklines, Firebug

By David Walsh on July 19, 2008

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.

googleDrive is a script written by PhatFusion. Why drag the Google Map when you can just drive around it? Grand Theft Google!

Web forms can be bland and boring but they don't have to be! Here's a list of MooTools scripts that will make your forms pop!

Sparklines is a mini chart-building script built with jQuery. The charts aren't anything too special but they're simple and effective.

John Resig as joined the Firebug team at Firefox! Glorious!

By David WalshNovember 2, 2015
JavaScript Promise API
While synchronous code is easier to follow and debug, async is generally better for performance and flexibility. Why "hold up the show" when you can trigger numerous requests at once and then handle them when each is ready? Promises are becoming a big part of the JavaScript world...
By Stefan JudisJune 9, 2014
Creating Scrolling Parallax Effects with CSS
Introduction For quite a long time now websites with the so called "parallax" effect have been really popular. In case you have not heard of this effect, it basically includes different layers of images that are moving in different directions or with different speed. This leads to a...

By David WalshJune 3, 2008
CSS Sprites
The idea of CSS sprites is pretty genius. For those of you who don't know the idea of a sprite, a sprite is basically multiple graphics compiled into one image. The advantages of using sprites are: Fewer images for the browser to download, which means...
By David WalshMay 20, 2010
Create GitHub-Style Buttons with CSS and jQuery, MooTools, or Dojo JavaScript
I'm what you would consider a bit of a GitHub fanboy. We all know that GitHub is the perfect place to store repositories of open source code, but I think my love of GitHub goes beyond that. GitHub seems to understand that most...