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I'm a web developer from Oregon. Currently I'm a student at Carnegie Mellon University majoring in computer science.
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Visualizing Data With Flot

Visualizing Data with Flot

James Lao on Oct 22nd 2008 with 48 comments

There are a lot of tutorials on how to make CSS bar graphs. But sometimes, bar graphs aren’t enough. What if our data tracks change over time and a line graph is more appropriate? Or maybe we’re not satisfied with just a bar graph. Enter Flot, ajQuery plugin that lets us make good looking graphs with ease.

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Build An AJAX Powered Online Shopping Cart

Build An AJAX Powered Shopping Cart

James Lao on Aug 21st 2008 with 131 comments

The NETTUTS community asked for it. So here you are! One of the innovations of the web is online shopping. It allows us to buy things without ever leaving the comfort of our homes. However, the most basic element of online shopping, the shopping cart, has not evolved much. In this tutorial, we’re going to make an AJAX powered shopping cart using PHP, jQuery, and a few nifty plugins.

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Text Replacement With FLIR

How To Use Any Font You Wish With FLIR

James Lao on Aug 11th 2008 with 141 comments

Last week, Philo showed you how to implement sIFR3. This time, I’m going to show you how to implement Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR), an alternative to sIFR that does not require Flash.

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How to Make a Featured Post Carousel for WordPress

James Lao on Jul 21st 2008 with 105 comments

It’s becoming more and more common for blogs to feature certain posts at the top of the page. In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to implement this in WordPress. We’ll be using the default theme, Kubrik, as our base theme, but it should be adaptable to most themes with some modification. There’s very little code and featuring posts is simple.

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