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Hi! I am Siddharth, a web developer/ designer based in Chennai with expertise in C#, Python, CSS and JavaScript . I resort to using jQuery when I don't feel like writing raw JS. I am passionate about web technologies and video games and I really think code *is* art. You can follow me if you want.


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9 Most Common IE Bugs and How to Fix Them

9 Most Common IE Bugs and How to Fix Them

Nov 16th in HTML & CSS by Siddharth
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Internet Explorer – the bane of most web developers’ existence. Up to 60% of your development can be wasted just trying to squash out IE specific bugs which isn’t really a productive use of your time. In this tutorial, you are going to learn about the most common IE bugs and rendering disparities and how to easily squash them or deal with them. Interested? Let’s get started.

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Build a Simple Password Strength Checker

Build a Simple Password Strength Checker

Nov 4th in JavaScript & AJAX by Siddharth
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Providing instant feedback is the in-thing right now. Why limit yourself to checking usernames and email addresses? Why not extend this to provide quick visual feedback about the strength of the password the user has input? Today, we’ll take a look at how to create a simple password strength checker using the jQuery library, regular expressions and a simple algorithm.

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Feeds 101

Feeds 101

Oct 27th in Other by Siddharth
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Feeds. RSS. Atom. Syndication. Subscribers. These are some of the keywords floating around the web and have gained notorious prominence over the years. In this guide, we’ll take a look at a number of things including what feeds are, why you need to have a feed for your site, how to set up one and then publish it.

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Essential SEO Tools

The Only SEO Tools You’ll Ever Need

Sep 30th in Other by Siddharth
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Search Engine Optimization is a rather complex and never ending process. You have to analyze a lot of things including what keywords people are searching for, the density of those keywords in your sites, how many sites link back to you, how popular your links are and so on. Doing all this manually can be a huge pain.

With that in mind, regardless of whether you’re an SEO guru or a beginner, these twenty tools are guaranteed to make your life easier.

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Create an In-Place Editing System

Create an In-Place Editing System

Sep 22nd in JavaScript & AJAX by Siddharth
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Making users click through multiple pages just to edit a field is so 1999. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an in-place editing system as found on popular sites, such as Flickr.

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Search Engine Optimization 101

Search Engine Optimization 101

Sep 11th in Other by Siddharth
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Your website may be top notch but what’s the use of an online presence if no one can find it? In this quick start guide to search engine optimization we’ll review an assortment of tactics to increase your page ranking.

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Learn a Few JavaScript Libraries at Once

Learn 3 Excellent JavaScript Libraries at Once

Sep 2nd in JavaScript & AJAX by Siddharth
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Let’s go with a hands-on approach today. We are going to write a tiny snippet of code in jQuery and then port it over to several different libraries. Outside of that chunk, we are going to look at how to implement some basic, necessary functionality in each of these libraries. Sounds fun? Let’s dive in!

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Decoding the Flickr API

The Ultimate Guide to Decoding the Flickr API

Jul 28th in JavaScript & AJAX by Siddharth
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Flickr, being the biggest photo management and sharing site in the world, has an impressive API to let developers access and manipulate almost all of its data. Lets take a look at how to work with the API: at the lowest level possible.

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Fun With Canvas: Create a jQuery Graph Plugin

Fun With Canvas: Create a jQuery Graph Plugin

Jun 5th in JavaScript & AJAX by Siddharth
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Combine the versatile canvas element with the robust jQuery library to create a bar graphing plugin. In this first part, we are going to code the core logic of the plugin as a standalone version.

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