When learning jQuery understanding the principle behind callbacks & the elusive ‘this’ can be extremely difficult. In this little tip I hope to remove some of the difficulty from understanding these useful principles.
A fairly common sight in these modern times of social networking is the famous Twitter tab. This is a tab that floats on the left or right hand side of your browser window & follows you. Here is how to go slightly further than that by making it slide out.
In this first coding tip we are going to look at a small, but very helpful tip for those starting out with jQuery animation. Who knows maybe even some of those who are familiar with jQuery have missed it.
Not so much a tutorial, but a little jQuery snippet that might help someone. This snippet detects a users desktop resolution and then does something fancy with it.
In our last tutorial we created a script to connect to the Twitter API, collect our tweets & display them in some simple paragraphs. In this part we are going to add a very important part, file caching. This will stop our script from running out of API requests.
Showing your Twitter timeline, or even just your most recent status update, is becoming increasingly popular. Doing it on a WordPress blog is simple with plugins, but what if you want to do it on a non-WordPress website? Here’s how.
At first glance this looks pointless, just use the [gallery] shortcode, but there are times when you want more customization than the gallery shortcode allows for. In this tutorial we will look at how to get all the images attached to a post without a plugin.
So you want to create an intelligent search for your website? By intelligent you are, of course, talking about the way Wikipedia sends you to the correct page should an exact match be found. Well you’re in luck, here is an easy way to do it using PHP & MySQLi.
Twitter is exceptionally popular for promoting your blog, or business. Having a Twitter social bookmark icon on your blog enables visitors, or even yourself to tweet the current blog article you are reading very quickly & easily. Here is how to create one.
Update: I am looking for people willing to test version 1.9 of Twitter Stream. It includes ReTweet support & a overhaul of the argument system. I haven’t been able to test it enough myself, that is why I am looking for testers.
Help me buy an iMac so I can develop iPhone/iPod apps. If you would like to donate, or you want to learn more about why I started this fund click here.
