jQuery growl notification plugin

Last week I signed up Gravity a new site setup by a few guys that used to work at MySpace. As i was using the site I noticed these great little notifications popping up in my browser, Mac users will be familiar with this as they work in the same way as Growl notifications. I thought it was interesting that this technique of displaying live information to users could be presented in this way, so i went on the hunt for a similar jQuery plugin and …

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Quick Tip: How to Write a Neat FlipNav Script

Somehow, I inadvertently started a navigation series over the last few weeks. It’s purely coincidence, mostly spawned by emails and such. This week, we’re going to mimic the neat navigation functionality, found on JohnMayer.com.

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Create Web Based Spreadsheet With jQuery.Sheet

jQuery.Sheet is a very useful jQuery plugin that lets you to easily add powerful spreadsheet component in your webpage. It will take care of creation, viewing, and editing processes; so that you can concentrate on building your application around it. You can change the look and feel of your spreadsheet using jQuery UI ThemeRoller.

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Segregating Comments and Trackbacks In Admin Panel?

For quite some time I have been struggling to moderate comments on my technology blog, the problem is not only with an abundance of comments, but also with lots of trackbacks/pingbacks. Now, for me pingbacks are really good, but it adds to a load while moderating comments. I do know that they can be disabled, but I don’t do it for a simple reason, which is to keep track of people who are linking back and sending trackbacks.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 03/18

Simple Red Grunge   Widget-ready, gravatar-enabled theme subtly combining a neat and clean theme layout with some grungy effects Standa-Matic Left sidebar, 340px wide and widget ready. widget ready footer, 3 Footer Bars (Left-Middle and Right) Earthly   Earthly incorporates a color scheme designed for sites that require an eco-friendly or earthy theme.

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Image Resizing Made Easy with PHP

Ever wanted an all purpose, easy to use method of resizing your images in PHP? Well that’s what PHP classes are for – reusable pieces of functionality that we call to do the dirty work behind the scenes. We’re going to learn how to create our own class that will be well constructed, as well as expandable.

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Building Community Sites with WordPress: 15 Plugins to Get Started

    By Cameron Chapman Most bloggers would love to see more of a sense of community among the regular visitors to their blog. Sure, discussions sometimes take place in the comments of various posts, but it all seems a bit disorganized and they never really get off the ground. There has to be a better way to create a real sense of community on a WordPress blog.

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Track Clicks Outside Active Elements with MooTools or jQuery

Buried in the MooTools and jQuery code from my Twitter Dropdowns posts was a small but useful snippet of code: hide an “active” element when the user clicks outside of the elements. Take a look at the image above. When you click the “Menu 1″ button, the dropdown menu displays.

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Quick Tip: Cross Domain AJAX Request with YQL and jQuery

For security reasons, we cannot make cross-domain AJAX requests with jQuery. For example, I can’t call the load() method, and pass in ‘cnn.com’. As we’d be loading in scripts and such, as well as our desired content, this would present a significant security risk.

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