Introducing MooTools NextPrev

One thing I love doing is duplicating OS functionalities. One of the things your OS allows you to do easily is move from one item to another. Most of the time you’re simply trying to get to the next or the previous item.

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Create a Simple News Scroller Using Dojo

My journey into Dojo javascript has been exciting and I’m continuing to learn more as I port MooTools scripts to Dojo. My latest experiment is porting a simple new scroller from MooTools to Dojo. The code is very similar! View Demo The HTML News Item 1 Pellentesque habitant morbi…

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Manage Comments From Your Windows or Linux Desktop

Comments form a very integral part of any blog to generate communication and spark discussions. As a WordPress blog user, managing comments and replying to them is very easy, however, what if you can manage and reply to comments from your desktop? WP Comments Notifier is a open source application written in QT/C++ for Linux and Windows, which will allow you to manage new comments and reply to them from your desktop.

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Quick Tip: My Favorite New IDE: WebStorm

Over the weekend, Elijah Manor tweeted about a new IDE, called WebStorm , that is currently being offered as a public preview, from JetBrains . After spending a few hours with it, I’m extremely impressed! In this video quick tip, I thought I’d show you some of my favorite features that you, frankly, just don’t see much in other code editors. Watch on your iPhone Notable Features Not as bloated as other IDEs, like Aptana Git integration Fast intellisense Vertical Selecting (Option + select) CSS lookup on markup (Shift + Command + I) Definition lookup (Control J) Immediately finds formatting errors in your code Advanced debugging Plenty of skins Zen coding implementation! (Such as, ul#nav> li*4> a) Quickly and easily export inline CSS and JS to external files.

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Uncovering jQuery’s Hidden Features

jQuery is not always as it appears. There's a lot of cool stuff going on under the surface, and there are many methods just waiting to be discovered, and many potential usages of jQuery's API that you may not have considered before. In this article I'll be taking you through a few of the not-so-obvious things I've discovered about jQuery.

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jCore: Open Source Multisite CMS

jCore is an open source Content Management System (CMS) build using PHP and MySQL. It can power multiple websites, enabling you to keep CMS software up to date and fix bugs for all websites from a single location. jCore has two main systems, jCore Server – which holds all the libraries and modules, and jCore Client – which is the stripped version of the core system that install with each website.

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How to Create a Simple iTunes-like Slider

When space is at a premium, making use of sliders is the optimal way to present information. Today, we’ll take a look at how to create a slider similar to the one used in the iTunes store. Developers often seek the functionality provided by sliders in order to fit lots of information in the space provided.

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Redesign and Other Tuts News

Over the last three days we’ve been steadily rolling out a new Tuts+ theme across all 8 sites. The new design is a refinement more than a big change, with lots of little improvements in usability and more suited to big screens. Read on to learn more about the redesign and lots of news about Plus! 1 The Plus Project As you may know we have some pretty big plans for these Tuts+ sites.

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Image Power Zoomer

Image Power Zoomer is jQuery plugin that adds a magnifier to any image on your page. It lets the user zoom in on any portion of the image by simply moving cursor over it. Furthermore, the magnification power can be adjusted on the fly by turning the mouse wheel back or forth, just like in many graphics programs.

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