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Dive Into Dojo Series: Dive Into Dojo Chart Theming

I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about my latest Dive Into Dojo post: Dive Into Dojo Chart Theming The previous installment of the Dive Into Dojo series shows how easy it is to Dive Into Dojo Charting to get started with Dojo’s charting library.
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Jul 30 2010 06:04 AM
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HTML5: Wrap Block-Level Elements with A’s

HTML5 presents a simpler line of thought with HTML than XHTML. And quite honestly, it’s a much needed simplification. One of those simplifications is the ability to wrap block-level elements like DIVs, H-tags, and P’s with basic A elements.
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Jul 27 2010 05:16 PM
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HTML5: Wrap Block-Level Elements with A’s

HTML5 presents a simpler line of thought with HTML than XHTML. And quite honestly, it’s a much needed simplification. One of those simplifications is the ability to wrap block-level elements like DIVs, H-tags, and P’s with basic A elements.
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Jul 27 2010 08:51 AM
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Build HTML Tables From MySQL Tables with PHP

I was recently completing a project which required that I build a series of HTML tables which would represent all of the tables within a MySQL database. I didn’t have anything created but after a few minutes I had exactly what I needed. Hopefully
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Jul 24 2010 04:43 PM
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Build HTML Tables From MySQL Tables with PHP

I was recently completing a project which required that I build a series of HTML tables which would represent all of the tables within a MySQL database. I didn’t have anything created but after a few minutes I had exactly what I needed. Hopefully
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David Walsh
Jul 22 2010 09:37 AM
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Multiple File Upload Input

More often than not, I find myself wanting to upload more than one file at a time. Having to use multiple “file” INPUT elements is annoying, slow, and inefficient. And if I hate them, I can’t imagine how annoyed my users would be.
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Jul 21 2010 02:29 AM
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Multiple File Upload Input

More often than not, I find myself wanting to upload more than one file at a time. Having to use multiple “file” INPUT elements is annoying, slow, and inefficient. And if I hate them, I can’t imagine how annoyed my users would be.
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Jul 20 2010 04:53 AM
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Using SCRIPT’s defer Attribute

One of the seldom used attributes within the HTML tag library is the defer attribute on SCRIPT elements. As you can probably tell by the name of the attribute, defer instructs the contents of the script tag to not execute until the page has loaded. Take
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Jul 17 2010 05:50 AM
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Using SCRIPT’s defer Attribute

One of the seldom used attributes within the HTML tag library is the defer attribute on SCRIPT elements. As you can probably tell by the name of the attribute, defer instructs the contents of the script tag to not execute until the page has loaded. Take
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Jul 17 2010 04:18 AM
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Sexy Link Transformations with CSS

I was recently visiting MooTools Developer Christoph Pojer’s website and noticed a sexy link hover effect: when you hover the link, the the link animates and tilts to the left or the right. To enhance the effect, the background color of the link is
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Jul 15 2010 05:37 AM
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Sexy Link Transformations with CSS

I was recently visiting MooTools Developer Christoph Pojer’s website and noticed a sexy link hover effect: when you hover the link, the the link animates and tilts to the left or the right. To enhance the effect, the background color of the link is
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Jul 15 2010 04:17 AM
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Dive Into Dojo Series: Dijit and Charting

I just wanted to give you all a heads up that I’ve started a Dive Into Dojo series over on the SitePen blog. The series will aim to cover the basics of jumping into the world of the Dojo Toolkit. The first two posts in the series focus on the
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Jul 14 2010 09:15 PM
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Dive Into Dojo Series: Dijit and Charting

I just wanted to give you all a heads up that I’ve started a Dive Into Dojo series over on the SitePen blog. The series will aim to cover the basics of jumping into the world of the Dojo Toolkit. The first two posts in the series focus on the
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Jul 14 2010 08:33 PM
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HTML5 classList API

Having thrust myself into the world of JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries, I’ve often wondered: When are browser vendors going to see the helper methods/libraries created by the JavaScript toolkits and implement these functionalities natively
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Jul 14 2010 12:55 PM
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HTML5 classList API

Having thrust myself into the world of JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries, I’ve often wondered: When are browser vendors going to see the helper methods/libraries created by the JavaScript toolkits and implement these functionalities natively
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Jul 14 2010 06:39 AM
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ServerSide JavaScript with MooTools and NodeJS

This post was authored by Christoph Pojer. To learn more about Christoph, click here. This blog post is intended to provide a starting point for ServerSide JavaScript (SSJS) development with MooTools. It is focused on NodeJS (http://nodejs.org) and tries
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Jul 13 2010 10:23 PM
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ServerSide JavaScript with MooTools and NodeJS

This post was authored by Christoph Pojer. To learn more about Christoph, click here. This blog post is intended to provide a starting point for ServerSide JavaScript (SSJS) development with MooTools. It is focused on NodeJS (http://nodejs.org) and tries
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Jul 13 2010 05:54 AM
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GET OVER IT! 6 Things Web Developers Need to Get Over

One of the downsides of being around developers of varying skill levels, from noob to Open Source legend, is that everyone has an opinion…and they’re all wrong. Every one of them. Of course, me being a developer, I’m wrong too. There
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Jul 11 2010 06:42 AM
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GET OVER IT! 6 Things Web Developers Need to Get Over

One of the downsides of being around developers of varying skill levels, from noob to Open Source legend, is that everyone has an opinion…and they’re all wrong. Every one of them. Of course, me being a developer, I’m wrong too. There
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David Walsh
Jul 09 2010 07:00 AM
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HTML5 Link Prefetching

One effort shared by both browsers and developers is making the web browsing experience faster. There are many common-known ways to keep your websites fast: using CSS sprites and image optimization, using .htaccess to set file headers for longer caching,
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David Walsh
Jul 08 2010 05:52 AM
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HTML5 Link Prefetching

One effort shared by both browsers and developers is making the web browsing experience faster. There are many common-known ways to keep your websites fast: using CSS sprites and image optimization, using .htaccess to set file headers for longer caching,
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David Walsh
Jul 08 2010 04:55 AM
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Google Font API

Google recently debuted a new web service called the Font API. Google’s Font API provides developers a means by which they may quickly and painlessly add custom fonts to their website. Let’s take a quick look at the ways by which the Google
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Jul 07 2010 06:55 AM
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Google Font API

Google recently debuted a new web service called the Font API. Google’s Font API provides developers a means by which they may quickly and painlessly add custom fonts to their website. Let’s take a quick look at the ways by which the Google
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Jul 07 2010 05:48 AM
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Make Dijit’s FilteringSelect Widget Display an Empty Option Value Label

I was recently working with the FilteringSelect Dojo Dijit widget and realized that when the first OPTION in the SELECT widget had a label with an empty value (like “Choose one…” or “Select you state”), the label
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Jul 06 2010 08:39 PM
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Make Dijit’s FilteringSelect Widget Display an Empty Option Value Label

I was recently working with the FilteringSelect Dojo Dijit widget and realized that when the first OPTION in the SELECT widget had a label with an empty value (like “Choose one…” or “Select you state”), the label
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David Walsh
Jul 06 2010 07:58 AM
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WebKit Marquee CSS: Bringin’ Sexy Back

We all joke about the days of Web yesteryear. You remember them: stupid animated GIFs (flames and “coming soon” images, most notably), lame counters, guestbooks, applets, etc. Another “feature” we thought we had gotten rid of was
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Jul 06 2010 07:52 AM
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WebKit Marquee CSS: Bringin’ Sexy Back

We all joke about the days of Web yesteryear. You remember them: stupid animated GIFs (flames and “coming soon” images, most notably), lame counters, guestbooks, applets, etc. Another “feature” we thought we had gotten rid of was
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David Walsh
Jul 06 2010 07:46 AM
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SitePen: Creating and Enhancing Dojo Classes

You have probably noted over the past few months that I’ve been working a lot with the Dojo Toolkit. SitePen has been kind enough to allow me to guest blog about a Dojo topic I find very interesting: creating and enhancing Dojo classes. From the
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David Walsh
Jul 02 2010 05:01 AM
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SitePen: Creating and Enhancing Dojo Classes

You have probably noted over the past few months that I’ve been working a lot with the Dojo Toolkit. SitePen has been kind enough to allow me to guest blog about a Dojo topic I find very interesting: creating and enhancing Dojo classes. From the
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Jul 01 2010 05:55 PM
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WebKit-Specific Style: -webkit-appearance

I was recently scoping out the horrid source code of the Google homepage when I noticed the “Google Search” and “I’m Feeling Lucky” buttons had a style definition I hadn’t seen before: -webkit-appearance. The value
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David Walsh
Jun 30 2010 04:59 AM
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WebKit-Specific Style: -webkit-appearance

I was recently scoping out the horrid source code of the Google homepage when I noticed the “Google Search” and “I’m Feeling Lucky” buttons had a style definition I hadn’t seen before: -webkit-appearance. The value
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Jun 29 2010 06:00 PM
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Using Firefox’s Geolocation API

One interesting aspect of web development is Geolocation; where is your user viewing your website from? You can base your language locale on that data or show certain products in your store based on the user’s location. Let’s examine how you
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Jun 29 2010 04:35 AM
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Using HTML5 Web Storage

HTML5 is the biggest buzz word in web development today. The new features promised by HTML5 will be a huge boost to web developers looking to stop rigging up ways to make their websites better, faster, and more flexible. One feature that’s caught
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Jun 29 2010 04:35 AM
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Using Firefox’s Geolocation API

One interesting aspect of web development is Geolocation; where is your user viewing your website from? You can base your language locale on that data or show certain products in your store based on the user’s location. Let’s examine how you
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David Walsh
Jun 28 2010 05:18 PM
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Using HTML5 Web Storage

HTML5 is the biggest buzz word in web development today. The new features promised by HTML5 will be a huge boost to web developers looking to stop rigging up ways to make their websites better, faster, and more flexible. One feature that’s caught
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Jun 28 2010 04:05 PM
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MooTools Equal Heights Plugin: Equalizer

Keeping equal heights between elements within the same container can be hugely important for the sake of a pretty page. Unfortunately sometimes keeping columns the same height can’t be done with CSS — you need a little help from your
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Jun 27 2010 05:03 PM
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MooTools Equal Heights Plugin: Equalizer

Keeping equal heights between elements within the same container can be hugely important for the sake of a pretty page. Unfortunately sometimes keeping columns the same height can’t be done with CSS — you need a little help from your
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Jun 25 2010 03:19 AM
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dojo.connect: A Powerful Object and Event Listener

One of the pieces of the Dojo Toolkit I’ve been really impressed with is dojo.connect. This connect method not only listens to DOM events but also allows you to listen to when a regular function is executed. Lets examine what dojo.connect is and
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Jun 23 2010 03:08 AM
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dojo.connect: A Powerful Object and Event Listener

One of the pieces of the Dojo Toolkit I’ve been really impressed with is dojo.connect. This connect method not only listens to DOM events but also allows you to listen to when a regular function is executed. Lets examine what dojo.connect is and
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Jun 23 2010 02:42 AM
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MooTools Class Sniffer Bookmarklet

I was recently reviewing a few MooTools-driven websites and one of the questions I wrote down was “Which MooTools Core classes do you use and how many classes have you created?” Then I asked myself if there was a way I could figure that out
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Jun 22 2010 06:21 AM