Archive for February, 2009

T&C Surf Design in JavaScript

[Jon Raasch]After playing Javascript Mario Kart, I’ve been wanting to develop a classic video game with jQuery. T&C seemed like a good fit because its motion and overall simplicity are ideal for jQuery’s animation library (and it’s really fun).

I’m fairly pleased with the performance, which is vastly improved through the use of cell-based collision [...]

iPhone Style On/Off Switch

Featured Content Slider

[CSS Tricks] I love the Coda Slider plugin for jQuery. I’ve used it recently to build a couple of tabbed “widgets”. One here on CSS-Tricks in the sidebar to show Script & Style links, Featured Posts, and Popular Posts. Just kind of a fun way to show lots of content in a small area. I [...]

FRESH ADD-ON: 59 Free & Fresh Icons

Hi there guys! We continue recommending you more free icons to improve your web designs.
This time we are presenting you 59 free fresh and lively icons with a high quality. The pack is named FRESH ADD-ON:
The Fresh Add-on contains such useful and flexibly applicable icons as application and financial symbols. Lot of formats such as: [...]

Christian Weiske’s Blog: Generating CHM files w/Wine on Linux & a bit about PEAR’s PhD trasition

Christian Weiske has posted a guide to generate CHM files dynamically in in a Wine instance on a machine running some form of Linux.

The only way to generate .chm files is to use Microsoft’s HTML Help Compiler hhc.exe from the HTML Help Workshop. It can be downloaded free of charge from their website. While the [...]

CSS Standards & Best Practices

CSS is used to define the User Interface of a Website & to separate content from presentation.
CSS is something that is extensively used on almost every site. Lets take some time to ensure that our stylesheets are built with some good standards. The below tips will really help CSS beginners a lot in development.
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A Life Guide for the Anti-Social Freelancer

In the workplace, we hear a lot about work-life balance and the need to be a well-rounded person.
For many freelancers language like that is reason enough to never work for another person again.
We aren’t very social animals and most of us aren’t normal workers either. Some of us do our best work at 2:00 in [...]

Display Easily Accessible Tabular Data with DataTables

DataTables is a jQuery plugin for building tables. It was designed for progressive enhancement of tabular HTML data, giving the end user a wide range of options for customising the display of that data as they wish. It is very easy to integrate DataTables directly into your web-site or web-application.
The core features of DataTables includes [...]

10 Steps To The Perfect Portfolio Website

Build Rich Web, Mobile and Desktop Apps with Appcelerator

Appcelerator is an open source platform for building rich web applications. Appcelerator’s flagship product is called the Appcelerator Platform. The Appcelerator Platform consists of an SDK for building rich web applications and is completely open source. Recently, they have released Appcelerator Titanium, an open source platform for building desktop and mobile applications using a common [...]