Posts Tagged ‘utility functions

JavaScript University continues as we develop our first utility function that will allow us to filter and retrieve only the unique values from an array. Along the way, I’ll also teach you how to use the excellent Firebug to debug your code. Catch Up Chapter 1: Hello World Chapter 2: Data Types Chapter 3: Conditional [...]

Two years ago Chris Coyier wrote an outstanding tutorial detailing how you can generate a photo gallery based on the images within two directories: a thumbnails directory and an originals directory. I’ve decided to take his tutorial a step further by showing you how to generate thumbnails for the gallery using PHP. I’ve also implemented [...]

I have written a book with Garrick Cheung about the MooTools JavaScript framework called "MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide" published by Packt Publishing. It’s a book for beginning web developers looking to make interactive websites and web applications rapidly with the help of MooTools. The book is formatted in a way that teaches you by way [...]

One project I’m currently working on requires jQuery. The project also features a datepicker for requesting a visit to their location. jQuery UI’s DatePicker plugin was the natural choice and it does a really nice job. One challenge I encountered was the need to prevent specific days from being picked. Here’s the jQuery javascript I [...]


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