Quick Tip: Getting Offline Access with HTML5 Application Cache

Just when you thought you’d seen all the cool features of HTML5, I’m here to bring you yet another one. The internet is no longer about just websites; it’s about web applications. Often, our users are on portable or mobile devices, and they won’t always have access to a network.

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Creating a Web Poll with PHP

Polls are nearly ubiquitous on the web today, and there are plenty of services that will provide a drop-in poll for you. But what if you want to write one yourself? This tutorial will take you through the steps to create a simple PHP-based poll, including database setup, vote processing, and displaying the poll.

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Lorelle’s Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins

Lorelle VanFossen has published a recap of her Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins session given on August 29th at OpenCamp in Addison, TX. To Lorelle, “a mind blowing WordPress Plugin is one that breaks the rules. It is unique and original in its implementation, and pushes WordPress.

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MooTools Plugin: Event.Mock

Those of you who visit this blog often know that I have a certain love for the simple things: simple CSS enhancements, simple PHP scripts, and most importantly, simple JavaScript plugins. One plugin that recently caught my attention was Arieh Glazer Event.Mock plugin. Event.Mock is a tiny MooTools plugin (essentially just a small function; not a MooTools class) that does exactly what it says: provides a Mock event for easy use with Element.fireEvent.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/01

New plugins Facebook Like for Tags converts a standard Facebook Like button from a one-time sharing feature to a one-on-one relationship for ongoing updates and sharing based on tags (keywords) or categories defined by you, the blogger/author. LBAK Google Checkout is aimed mainly at small projects that just want to sell a few things on their blog through Google Checkout and don’t want too much else apart from ease of use. Pingdom Status lets you display your Pingdom monitoring data on your WordPress site, essentially creating a status page for whatever it is you are monitoring.

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jQuery and Ajax Best Demos Part-7

A Collection of jQuery, Ajax and PHP Tutorials with live demos, tutorials posted on 9lessons blog. In these demos I had explained about jquery connectivity with MySQL database, Ajax implementation, JSON with PHP and Animation addons to your web pages. I hope it’s useful for you.

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Digging into WordPress Version 3.0

It’s here! Digging into WordPress Version 3.0 is packed with goodness, including a new chapter on WP 3, updated core content, and a super-sleek new cover. DiW3 cover by Chris Coyier Updated Core Material Much has changed with WordPress since our previous book update (v2), so for version 3.0 we went through the book and updated/removed outdated core content. Everything is now hot-wired and fine-tuned to the latest version of WordPress, with new popouts and fresh links throughout the book.

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21 Ridiculously Impressive HTML5 Canvas Experiments

HTML5 is the thing to talk about these day. Today, we have a collection of some ridiculously impressive HTML5 canvas-based experiments that will make you say, “Wow!” Let’s take a peek at some of the latest, cutting edge examples out there. 1.

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Quick Tip: Working with MySQL and SUM

In today’s quick tip screencast, we’re going to learn a MySQL query trick. You might be already familiar with the SUM() and IF() functions. We will be combining them to come up with some useful queries.

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