As a template designer, finding an appropriate icon that fits your designed template can be sometimes time-consuming. That was the reason I tried to put together the most practical free twitter icons and here is the result.

Depth of field is a creative technique in photography that brings out the focus of a particular matter in the image. Most commonly known as DOF, it is the total distance between the nearest and furthest object that appear reasonably sharp in photography. There are three factors pertaining to the effect of the depth of field – lens focal length, aperture and shooting distance.

Search engine optimization (SEO) experts will have you believe that the best way to increase your search engine traffic is through using their tried and true techniques. But did you know that you can actually increase your traffic without using SEO principles?

In my previous post I talked about the impact of jQuery Selectors on a page that I analyzed. The page took 4.8 seconds in the onLoad event handler. 2 seconds were mainly caused by the selectors as described in the blog. The other 2.8 seconds were caused by a dynamic JavaScript menu – in that particular case it was the superfish jQuery plugin. A closer analysis showed why it takes so long and this also got me to do some research on these menus. Kudos to Joel Birch for his excellent plugin – easy to integrate – and – if properly used – its fast enough

The long, lost application delivery spell compendium has been found! Luckily, you don’t have to be Elminster or Gandalf or > to cast this spell over your infrastructure.

Detailed description of how I'm writing and selling an eBook and building a community for screencasters. I discuss the agile development techniques I'm using, the tools I use and my plans for the future. If you want to write your own eBook then this will give you lots of ideas.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to build tooltips that are powered by jQuery, with information pulled from a JSON array. Here’s a look at the final result that we’ll be looking to me:

Parameters are a key idea in Joomla development. It is almost an understatement to say that they are used to customise modules, components, plug-ins and templates. In many cases parameters provide the basic data that makes the addition function.

We need to know how to use properties and methods of Navigator object in JavaScript to make powerful applications. Navigator object gives us to get browser information of client. There is a list of all properties and methods in Javascript.

In this article, we will create an image slideshow including a lot of effects. We will use HTML and JavaScript.

When we work on our goals, especially those life changing, long term goals, it often requires us to make fundamental changes in our behaviour and thought patterns. One way to speedite this type of transition is through building good habits that can really help us make these changes. Thus the reason we want to introduce this habits tracker/builder feature into GoalsOnTrack.

How Lists make job searching with Twitter so much easier.

more than 200 photo effect tutorial for both inspiration and references purposes. Image for each tutorial is also provided to better illustrate what each tutorial is demonstrating.

I had the chance to take part of a multi people conversation on Google Wave.

Microsoft did a fantastic job making PDC09 accessible to everyone, even to geeks as far away as Vermont. Their real-time HD video coverage of the keynotes and conference presentations was awesome. And what Microsoft didn't provide at http://microsoftpdc.com, Twitter did. The combination of microsoftpdc.com and the #PDC09 stream allowed me to feel like I was at the conference without having to fly across the country to get there.

If you are a server-side Java developer such as myself, I am sure you want an easy way to create AJAX based application but pure JavaScript (ECMAScript) is not your strong skills. The beauty of JavaScript is that it runs on any web server, no need for a servlet container or anything of that sort.

jMP3 (javaScript MP3 player) is an easy way make any MP3 playable directly on most any web site (to those with Flash & javaScript enabled), using the sleek Flash Single MP3 Player & the fantabulous jQuery.

An introduction to using Ajax with JQuery and ASP.NET MVC. Basic examples of the JQuery and server-side code.

Examples introducing some of the more advanced Ajax features available with ASP.NET MVC. Retrieving and submitting forms are covered using both JQuery and the built-in MVC Ajax libraries.