Quick Tip: How to Extend Built-in Objects in JavaScript

Quick Tip: How to Extend Built-in Objects in JavaScript

Feb 5th, 2010 in JavaScript & AJAX, Screencasts by Jeffrey Way

Constructor functions, like Array, offer a wide range of methods and properties that you can make use of. But have ever wished that one of these objects offered some method that isn’t built-in? Is there a way to do so yourself? Absolutely! Let’s see how.

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Quick Tip: How to Use the New

Quick Tip: How to Use the New “Post-Thumbnail” Feature in WordPress 2.9

Feb 4th, 2010 in Screencasts, Wordpress by Jeffrey Way

Up until the release of WordPress 2.9, setting up “post-image” support for your blog was a bit more tedious a task than it really needed to be. Luckily, that’s no longer an issue. I’ll show you how to get setup in this four minute video quick tip.

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JavaScript from Null: Chapter 5

JavaScript from Null: Chapter 5 – Events

Jan 29th, 2010 in Screencasts by Jeffrey Way

As we move forward with JavaScript University, today, we’ll learn how to add event handlers to elements on the page. Unfortunately, this can be more cumbersome than we’d hope, due to the fact that Internet Explorer must always be the black sheep. Nevertheless, we’ll learn how to abstract these inconsistencies away to our custom utility function.

As with every JavaScript from Null screencast, it’s not essential that you view the previous entries in the series before watching.

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Quick Tip: JavaScript Event Delegation in 4 Minutes

Quick Tip: JavaScript Event Delegation in 4 Minutes

Jan 29th, 2010 in Screencasts by Jeffrey Way

Event delegation can be a confusing topic for those who are unfamiliar with the concept. But, luckily, it’s really simple. In this quick tip video tutorial, I’ll demonstrate the concept in just under four minutes.

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Quick Tip: How to Create a Theme-Switcher in 200 Seconds

Quick Tip: How to Create a Theme-Switcher in 200 Seconds

Jan 26th, 2010 in Screencasts by Jeffrey Way

Have you ever seen sites that offer some kind of “color-switcher” within the header section? Want to know how easy it is to replicate? I’ll show you in 200 seconds, using jQuery.

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Quick Tip: Top 5 Ways to Browser-Test your Website

Quick Tip: Top 5 Ways to Browser-Test your Website

Jan 22nd, 2010 in Screencasts by Jeffrey Way

The great joy that comes from being a web designer is getting to view your new website in a variety of browsers, only to find that each renders the site at varying levels of consistency – namely Internet Explorer 7 and below. This video quick tip will demonstrate the five most popular services and tools for testing a website in a variety of browsers.

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ASP.NET from Scratch : Lesson 3

ASP.NET from Scratch: Lesson 3

Jan 21st, 2010 in ASP.NET, Screencasts by Jeremy McPeak

Picking up where Lesson two left off, this new installment of ASP.NET From Scratch covers more C# programming fundamentals – namely class inheritance and interfaces. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use inheritance to save time and code. You’ll also learn about the concept of interfaces, and how they can make your applications and components flexible and maintainable. You’ll also be introduced to the Object Browser, a feature of Visual Studio that organizes all classes within the Framework Class Library and your project in a browsable format.

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Quick Tip: How to Target IE6 and IE7 with Only Two Characters

Quick Tip: How to Target IE6 and IE7 with Only Two Characters

Jan 21st, 2010 in Screencasts by Jeffrey Way

Did you know that, with the addition of only two characters, you can target both Internet Explorer 6 and 7 in your stylesheets? It’s easy…I’ll show you!

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How to Make All Browsers Render HTML5 Mark-up Correctly: Screencast

Jan 15th, 2010 in Screencasts by Jeffrey Way
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HTML 5 provides some great new features for web designers who want to code readable, semantically-meaningful layouts. However, support for HTML 5 is still evolving, and Internet Explorer is the last to add support. In this tutorial, we’ll create a common layout using some of HTML 5’s new semantic elements, then use JavaScript and CSS to make our design backwards-compatible with Internet Explorer. Yes, even IE 6.

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Terminal, Git, and GitHub for the Rest of Us

Terminal, Git, and GitHub for the Rest of Us: Screencast

Jan 15th, 2010 in Screencasts by Jeffrey Way

So you’ve read the tutorials, and still can’t manage to figure out this stuff? What is Git – and why do we even need it? If you fall into this category, much like I did at one point, I’ve recorded a video tutorial that hopes to teach you exactly how to get started. Rather than feeling your eyes blur over as you attempt to comprehend code snippets like “git push origin master,” relax, and let me explain it to you as best as I possibly can!

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