Useful links from February 2010
Each month, you'll find in this section a list of useful links I gathered or bookmarked during the last 30 days and for each, a brief note on why I found this link useful. Here's the list for February2010.... More
My Favourite MYSQL functions
For the previous years I've been trying to point out the areas of my workflow that were taking most of my time to try to optimise them. One of these areas was database interactions meaning the famous 'SELECT', 'INSERT', 'UPDATE' and 'DELETE' statements. When I was still disco... More
Useful links from January 2010
Each month, you'll find in this section a list of useful links I gathered or bookmarked during the last 30 days and for each, a brief note on why I found this link useful. Here's the list for January 2010.... More
A guide to Ajax Interactions with jQuery
The fantastic jQuery library revolutionized the way javascript is being written around the globe. It's been globally acclaimed and adopted, resulting in an award for best open source project in the end of 2009. In this article, we are going to see how we can use the power of ... More
Useful links from December 09
Each month, you'll find in this section a list of useful links I gathered or bookmarked during the last 30 days and for each, a brief note on why I found this link useful. Here's the list for December 2009.... More
Slick Videos Presentation With Fancybox
Recently, a friend of mine asked me how it would be possible to play videos directly from within a fancybox. This post presents the solution I usually use, and reviews the different elements needed, html, ... More
Useful links from November 09
Each month, you'll find in this section a list of useful links I gathered or bookmarked during the last 30 days and for each, a brief note on why I found this link useful. Here's the list for November 2009.... More
How to create your own rss feed
RSS is a way of easily keep your site's readers up to date with your latest content. That's a reason why it is widely used by the famous blogs and big sites. Once someone subscribes to an RSS feed, he'll get a notification every time you post some new content to your site. It ... More
How to create an Ajax, validated form
Even on some very famous websites and blogs based on the Wordpress platform, such as Smashing Magazine or Webdesigner Depot for example, the comment forms a... More
How to make SEO friendly urls
It's now quite common to swap the old url format containing file extensions and non explicit query strings by SEO friendly ones, only made of keywords and slashes, hence their name. There are several techniques to do so, and I certainly do not have the pretention to say that t... More
Mootools Facebook Search
When it comes to social web, facebook is clearly a reference, packed with outstanding features. Among them, their famous autocompletion search input, allowing you to quickly find a particular friend. Another one that I like is when you want to send a message, it is really easy to... More
Wordpress SchmancyBox Plugin
SchmancyBox, is the implementation of the FancyBox plugin for Wordpress. So if you're a WordPress user, you'll probably love that stylish and easy to use plugin. Start to add some fancy effects to your website now! The original idea of that ... More
Cached thumbnail Script
A very handy script allowing you to create thumbnails for any given picture. It will also create a cached copy of the result on your server so it's quite interesting performance wise as well. In fact, it's really easy to use and does what it says very well. For example, it has... More
jQuery LightBox Plugin
My favourite plugin! Mostly dedicated to pictures and galleries, this plugin is a zooming and animated tool, well designed and so practical for any demonstration purpose. Source and © Leandro Vieira Pinho.... More
jQuery FancyBox Plugin
The FancyBox is one of the plugin that I like the most. It's so easy to use and renders really nicely, especially with images. It's a Mac like zooming tool that you can customize quite well and really looks amazing. Source and © Janis Skarnelis... More
jQuery jCarousel Plugin
jCarousel is a jQuery plugin for controlling a list of items in horizontal or vertical order. The items, which can be static HTML content or loaded with (or without) AJAX, can be scrolled back and forth (with or without animation). Very nice for an Image Gallery for example. Sour... More
jQuery FaceBox Plugin
This code, as its names implies, creates a widget like the one widely used in the famous website facebook. It's far more efficient and nicer than a JavaScript alert() box. Any content can be loaded inside it, pretty helpful for user interaction as well. Source and © Chris Wa... More
jQuery ThickBox Plugin
This plugin allows you to display a user interface dialog box with any content inside (remote page, images, feeds...) without loading another page. Source and © Cody Lindley.... More
jQuery Form Validation Plugin
The jQuery validation plugin allows you to perform client side form validation, to ensure that all the required data are effectively entered by the user without submitting the form. It's a very powerful plugin with many ways of customization to match your needs. Source and ©... More
jQuery library
jQuery is a new kind of JavaScript Library. It is a fast and concise library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development, and last but not least, is really simple to understand and manipulate.... More
