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Quick Tip: What you May Not Know About JavaScript’s Logical AND Operator

In today’s video quick tip, we’ll be reviewing JavaScript’ logical AND operator. Those of you who are just beginning to get into JavaScript, or even a library like jQuery, might not realize that they can even be used as micro if
 
Jeffrey Way
Sep 02 2010 03:52 PM
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RESTx version 0.9.4: JavaScript everywhere, MIME types and more

Version 0.9.4 of RESTx – the fastest way to create RESTful web services – has just been released. The main features introduced by this version are the ability to write components in server-side JavaScript, the addition of a JavaScript client
Sep 02 2010 09:40 AM
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How to Roll Your Own JavaScript Compressor with PHP and the Closure Compiler

Craig illustrates how a few lines of PHP and the Closure Compiler API can be used to automatically merge and compress your JavaScript files before they are returned to the browser. Related PostsEasy JavaScript Compression with the Closure Compiler REST
 
Craig Buckler
Sep 01 2010 12:33 AM
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elRTE – Open source WYSIWYG Editor With a File Manager

elRTE is an open-source WYSIWYG HTML-editor written in JavaScript using jQuery UI. It features rich text editing, options for changing its appearance, style and many more. Main goal of the editor – simplify work with text and formating (HTML) on
 
Mufti Ali
Aug 31 2010 06:25 PM
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Universal launch images with PhoneGap

I've been playing with PhoneGap a lot recently, in part to prepare Marbles2, but also to bring JS Console to the iPhone as a native app. I've always wanted to create an app that worked on all devices, but getting the launch image correct for each device
 
Remy Sharp
Aug 31 2010 07:42 AM
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XML Paging in JavaScript

I was trying to develop a paging in XML with JavaScript and could write this code. It takes a XML file name as Input and gives five records on each page. No of records can be changed on each page. Check recordPerPage and max variable. I was working on
 
Satya Prakash
Aug 29 2010 05:23 AM
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Simultaneous Multiple-Browser JavaScript Testing With Yeti

JavaScript unit testing on different browsers will become less of a chore with Yeti - a new open source project from the Yahoo YUI team. Related PostsPerformance Testing Comes Back With Boomerang Is SuperPreview a Superstar? Browser Testing in Expression
 
Craig Buckler
Aug 29 2010 12:54 AM
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JavaScript from Null: Cross-Browser Event Binding

In chapter five of this series, we jumped into the muddy world of event listeners. In that episode, we only got our feet wet; however, today, we’ll take things a step further as we implement a far more efficient solution. Along the way, we’ll
 
Jeffrey Way
Aug 28 2010 12:33 PM
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40 New JavaScript Tutorials with Helping Techniques

We are like to presenting some useful JavaScript tutorials, jQuery snippets, libraries, articles, tools and resources, we’re today with some latest techniques about javascript. In this round-up we sharing calendars, forms, buttons, navigation,
Aug 28 2010 05:42 AM
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Multiple instances of jQuery Tabs

Back in April 3rd, 2009, I wrote a small script to create tabs with jQuery. Many readers liked its simplicity and asked for some more features, like the ability to automatically rotate between each tab and those were into the second incarnation of the
 
Elio
Aug 27 2010 05:58 PM
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45+ Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins to Improve the Look and Feel of Your Website

There are plenty of plugins for jQuery addressing nearly any front end need you can think of. The apparent abundance of plugins available on the other hand does not stop creative and skilled developers from creating even more goodies for the jQuery
Aug 27 2010 09:32 AM
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JavaScript Flexibility – Regex match()

Today after two posts [#1, #2] in the past days here’s something that shows again the JavaScript power. This is not a complete example, but it’s good to start. var str = '/text/1/text/2/'; var a = str.match(/(\d+)/gi);
 
Stoimen
Aug 27 2010 05:26 AM
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How to Drag Out Files Like Gmail

Ryan Seddon, aka the CSS Ninja, has a nice blog post up where he reverse engineers the new feature in Gmail where you can drag attachments from an email on to your desktop. Note that the feature only currently works in Chrome. Ryan begins with the
 
Brad Neuberg
Aug 27 2010 03:19 AM
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Quick Tip: Quick and Easy JavaScript Testing with “Assert”

Years ago, I learned a deceptively simple “assert” function from John Resig, for testing your JavaScript. Amazingly, at barely five or six lines, this code provides a great level of power and control over your code, when testing. I’ll
 
Jeffrey Way
Aug 26 2010 12:42 PM
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Quick Tip: Quick and Easy JavaScript Testing with “Assert”

Years ago, I learned a deceptively simple “assert” function from John Resig, for testing your JavaScript. Amazingly, at barely five or six lines, this code provides a great level of power and control over your code, when testing. I’ll
 
Jeffrey Way
Aug 26 2010 10:37 AM
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Smoothie Charts – Charting Library for Live Streaming Data

There’s tons of great JavaScript charting libraries out there. Too many to choose from. Although many of the charting libraries allow you to dynamically update data, none have really been optimized for a constant stream of data. Smoothie Charts is a
 
Mufti Ali
Aug 25 2010 01:52 PM
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Flexible JavaScript – Splitting Strings

After reviewing a chunk of my code for today I continue to admire the flexibility of JavaScript. It’s really powerful. In that example you can get a string split it by a given symbol to an array and than get the Nth element of it. All this on one
 
Stoimen
Aug 25 2010 09:43 AM
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Browsing a digital library using a map

Every so often I revisit the idea of browsing a collection of documents (or specimens, or phylogenies) geographically. It's one thing to display a map of localities for single document (as I did most recently for Zootaxa), it's quite another to browse a
Aug 25 2010 09:40 AM
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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.52)

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on
Aug 25 2010 07:33 AM
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Dynamic favicons

Google Calendar released a new favicon which prompted a few mentions from friends on Twitter. The first, probably more important was from Cennydd: New Google Calendar icon most un-Googley. I like it. Then Danny pitched in with: I see Google Calendar has
 
Remy Sharp
Aug 25 2010 07:33 AM
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JavaScript Tip: get a Random Number between two Integers

In JavaScript, we can get a Random number; however, this number is between 0 and 1 which is not very useful when we want to work with integers. For example, executing the random method of the Math Object we can get something like this:
 
Teylor Feliz
Aug 25 2010 03:27 AM
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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.52)

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on
Aug 25 2010 01:23 AM
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50 Awesome New jQuery Plugins

The jQuery community never ever fails to let you down. Its constantly evolving, constantly improving and, thankfully, constantly releasing a tidal wave of fresh and powerful freely available plugins for every possible requirement. Today we round-up the
Aug 24 2010 02:42 AM
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How to easily create charts using jQuery and HTML5

For years, Flash was the only solution to display a dynamic chart on a website. But thanks to modern techniques, the dying Flash isn't needed anymore. In this tutorial, I'll show you how easy it is to transform a basic HTML table into a profesionnal
 
Jean-Baptiste Jung
Aug 24 2010 12:01 AM
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Quick Tip: Dissecting jQuery – Filters

Sporadically, over the course of each month, we’ll post a “Dissecting jQuery” video quick tip. The idea behind these is that we’ll take a single chunk of the jQuery source at a time, break it down, and determine exactly
 
Jeffrey Way
Aug 23 2010 10:45 PM
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PaintbrushJS – Lightweight Browser Based Image Processing Library

PaintbrushJS is a lightweight, browser-based image processing library that can apply various visual filters to images within a web page. You use it by applying a class to an element on the page and setting a few parameters with some extra HTML
 
Mufti Ali
Aug 23 2010 08:35 PM
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The Web is Not Platform Independent

There was a time when you wrote a web site and you targeted IE6. That time has long passed. When you really only had to target IE6, you could pretend the web was platform independent. The truth is now the web is neither, nor will ever be platform
 
John Sonmez
Aug 23 2010 11:45 AM
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Polymaps – JavaScript Library for Making Dynamic, Interactive Maps

Polymaps is a free JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers. Polymaps provides speedy display of multi-zoom datasets over maps, and supports a variety of visual presentations for tiled vector data, in [...]
 
Mufti Ali
Aug 22 2010 01:41 AM
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An Implausibly Illustrated Introduction to HTML5 Web Workers

Been hearing about HTML5 Web Workers but can’t wrap your brain around them? Mark Pilgrim is here to help with an (implausibly) illustrated tongue-in-cheek guide. A small visual snippet: Yet another snippet: [Disclosure: Mark Pilgrim owes me money;
 
Brad Neuberg
Aug 20 2010 02:06 AM
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10 MooTools Image and Content Sliders

With CSS3 stealing all of the design headlines recently, and with jQuery as popular as it is, it is very easy to forget about any other image and content slider/gallery options you may have. And as such, in this post, we take a look at the best of what
Aug 19 2010 11:57 PM
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Top Bar Hive Supply Website – In House Marketing Success

This post was written by Matt Reed, a good friend of Zebra Kick. It was great to hear that his website is dong well so I asked him to write a bit about the progress of his top bar hive website. You can read more of his posts at his Bee Keeping Blog. Our
 
Guest Author
Aug 19 2010 01:50 PM
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Moving Greasemonkey Scripts To GitHub

Recently I made a few amends to some Greasemonkey scripts I wrote a while back and, since I’ve been using git quite a bit recently, it made sense to me to move my Greasemonkey scripts onto GitHub. So I did And here they are: google-search-shortcut
Aug 19 2010 12:29 PM
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Chained Select Progressive Enhancement

Perhaps you have encountered a chained select control in your travels. The canonical example would be on Monster or CareerBuilder, picking your area of expertise. Maybe you first select "Technology", then the second menu contains only technology skills,
Aug 19 2010 07:20 AM
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De-linting Javascript (2 of 3)

This is the second in a series of articles that describe the incremental steps we took to address issues with our JavaScript, causing last minute scrambling in our development and release processes. When last we left, we had decided to use Dominic
 
Mike Rampson
Aug 18 2010 08:21 AM
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How to Become a JavaScript Bad… Shut Yo Mouth!

[Image CC-A by Terry Johnston] A fun post for a Tuesday morning, Aaron Newton shares his path to becoming a JavaScript ninja, and how you can too. Some of his tips (I encourage you to read the whole article): Study design and designers. I’m not saying
 
Brad Neuberg
Aug 18 2010 02:22 AM
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Good Practices for Rich Web Applications

Use jQuery jQuery is the best thing that has happened to Javascript since it got first class functions in version 1.2. The library is elegant, powerful and has exactly the right level of abstraction for working with the DOM. There is nothing more to say.
 
Anders Janmyr
Aug 16 2010 09:44 PM
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Good Practices for Rich Web Applications

Use jQuery jQuery is the best thing that has happened to Javascript since it got first class functions in version 1.2. The library is elegant, powerful and has exactly the right level of abstraction for working with the DOM. There is nothing more to say.
Aug 16 2010 09:07 PM
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JavaScript Function Scope Explained

I am currently reading the MEAP of John Resig’s (@jeresig) Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja and one of the things that many beginners and even intermediate JavaScript developers do not understand completely, is the different ways in which functions
Aug 16 2010 09:14 AM