In today’s PLUS video tutorial, Pablo is going to show you how to create a Flash-like carousel…without using Flash! By implementing some clever JavaScript techniques, you’ll learn how to create this beautiful effect. As you’ll find, it’s not quite as complicated as you might imagine. It simply requires a solid grasp of Geometry. Join today!
Build a Beautiful Carousel with JavaScript from Scratch: New Plus Tutorial
Nov 11th in Plus by Pablo
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The Basics of Object-Oriented JavaScript
Nov 11th in JavaScript & AJAX by Leigh KaszickOver recent years, JavaScript has increasingly gained popularity, partly due to libraries that are developed to make JavaScript apps/effects easier to create for those who may not have fully grasped the core language yet.
While in the past it was a common argument that JavaScript was a basic language and was very ’slap dash’ with no real foundation; this is no longer the case, especially with the introduction of high scale web applications and ‘adaptations’ such as JSON (JavaScript Object Notation).
7AMP – Creating a Development Environment
Nov 10th in PHP by Dan WellmanRunning a local development web server is one of the best ways of learning AJAX; reading up on it is one thing, but being able to pass the raw data back and forth between a browser and a server is really the only way to truly understand what is happening at a fundamental level. To create the dynamic and interactive apps and sites that we’ve come to know and love, you need a development server.
On Windows systems we really have only a few decent options available; we can use Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS), which is usually bundled with Ultimate or Business versions of Windows, or we can use Apache, the extremely popular open-source alternative. Remember when Microsoft enjoyed a 90% market share of the browser market? Apache is the MS of the web server world and at some points in its illustrious history has enjoyed almost total domination in its respective field.
17 Hours of JavaScript from the Masters
Nov 9th in Web Roundups by Andrew BurgessDouglas Crockford. John Resig. Peter-Paul Koch. Nicolas C. Zakas. If you recognize these names, you probably know what they all have in common: they’re amazingly talented JavaScript Developers. Today, you’ll hear from all of them, in this roundup of JavaScript presentations. Be ready to stretch your brain!
Learn how to AJAXify Comment Forms
Nov 6th in Screencasts by Jeffrey WayIn this week’s video tutorial, I’ll teach you how to take a simple, boring contact form and add some animations and an AJAX post request to submit the form to your MySQL database asynchronously.
In addition, we’ll also implement a bit of server and client-side validation to better secure our data. When submitting to the database, we’ll also review the most secure methods, including the use of prepared statements, which will bind the necessary values to each query, rather than embed them.
Book Review: Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development
Nov 6th in Reviews by Fred WuIf you are looking into buying a book to learn about Zend Framework, chances are you are already set on using Zend Framework to build your next project. Today, we will be looking at Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development by Keith Pope, published by Packt Publishing.
Inside the Mind of ThemeForest’s Top Selling Author
Nov 5th in Interviews by Jeffrey WayKriesi is ThemeForest’s top selling author; he, last month, broke the record of most sales in a single month, across all of the Envato marketplaces! It’s even more shocking when we consider the fact that he’s only 27 years old!
In this interview, we’ll dive into his work process, and hopefully steal some tips and inspiration!
Create a Contact Manager – New Plus Tutorial
Nov 5th in Plus by Connor ZwickIn this three-part series – in depth tutorials + two hour screencast – we’ll be creating a contact manager using jQuery and CodeIgniter. As more and more applications are moving towards the hive, web developers & designers alike are required to learn more and more about how to design “desktopesque” projects.
Build a Simple Password Strength Checker
Nov 4th in JavaScript & AJAX by SiddharthProviding 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.
ASP.NET from Scratch: Lesson 1
Nov 3rd in Screencasts by Jeremy McPeakNettuts+ is primarily a PHP haven; however, I’m sure we can all agree that there are many fantastic, and technically more powerful languages and frameworks at our disposal. Jeremy McPeak, author of Professional AJAX, and Beginning JavaScript: 4th Edition, will teach you how to build ASP.NET applications from scratch over the course of the next several video tutorials. Enjoy!
