jQuery iPod-style Drilldown Menu
We created an iPod-style drilldown menu to help users traverse hierarchical data quickly and with control. It's especially helpful when organizing... more »
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Deployment is Colonization
For years, many people have argued that one of PHP’s big successes is deployment. The language has little to recommend it for anything beyond simple... more »
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John Resig: Google Doctype
There's been a lot of interest in yesterday's release of Google Doctype. The primary focus of the release is on documentation (specifically... more »
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:hover behavior in IE 7
I just got bitten by an issue with the :hover CSS element not working in a page where I'd been trying to highlight grid rows. It's really easy to... more »
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JavaScript Graphing Version 2 and News
For today, lets take a look at the improvements I have made on the code for Visual Graphing in JavaScript. You can play with the new code at the... more »
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Functional Programming 101: Lists and Closures
A key feature of functional programming languages are their list data structures. In many languages the list can store items of disparate data types,... more »
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Processing.js Aftermath
It's been fascinating to watch the outpouring of interest and creativity that's surrounded the recent release of Processing.js. First things first,... more »
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The magic empty string that is not empty
I just helped one of our developers with a weird problem. The piece of code he was working on contained roughly this: if ($str!='') { echo... more »
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Cross Compare of SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL - Postgres OnLine Journal
"The below is by no means an exhaustive comparison of these 3 databases and functionality may not be necessarily ordered in order of importance. These... more »
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Is HTML a Humane Markup Language?
One of the things we're thinking about while building stackoverflow.com is how to let users style the questions and answers they're entering on the... more »
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jFlow 1.0 - The Ultra-lightweight Fluid Content Slider for jQuery
jFlow is a widget to make your content slides. One popular alternative that exist out there is coda-slider. jFlow is super lightweight because it is... more »
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CSS Child Selector Performance
Are child selectors slower than more simple brethren? This is a question that Jon Sykes sought out data for after he read the work of Jim... more »
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NetBeans extension makes simple work of PHP
Arriving with the NetBeans 6.1 release last week was the NetBeans IDE Early Access for PHP. This provides a complete PHP integrated development... more »
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Comet: Introducing HTTP Channels
HTTP Channels is a transport protocol based on the existing messaging capabilities of HTTP and utilizes the concepts of REST for notification of... more »
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An Argument for PHP
Currently, over on Slashdot, there is an article on forthcoming features in PHP version 6. And, like most PHP articles, the comments section is... more »
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Useful in-browser development tools for PHP
While debuggers exists, there isn’t much of a tradition for using them in PHP. People have largely come to rely on injecting debugging code directly... more »
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Those Damn Slashes
According to A List Apart, (and who am I to disagree though here I am doing just that), all URLs should end with a trailing slash. I cannot say that I... more »
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XML: The Angle Bracket Tax
Everywhere I look, programmers and programming tools seem to have standardized on XML. Configuration files, build scripts, local data storage, code... more »
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Understanding CSS positioning part 2
This is the second part in the Understanding CSS positioning series, which will focus on float and more advanced display properties. Float is one of... more »
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30 Exceptional Ajax/javascript Techniques (Recently Created)
In this article we’d like to present a list of over 30 hand-picked Ajax and javascript techniques that is recently created.
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Make fancy buttons using CSS sliding doors technique
This article will show you how to create fancy buttons using CSS sliding doors technique. It is much better to use this technique than to use image... more »
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CSS do's and dont's Part 1: CSS Selecting
Css Globe is starting a series of lightweight articles named "CSS do's and don'ts". This series is aimed at pointing out some of the bad habits when... more »
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The hidden value of processing.js
The ever wonderful John Resig finally posted his totally awesome processing.js code to the web. If you haven’t seen it, you should go take a look. The... more »
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How To Create A ‘Mootools Homepage’ Inspired Navigation Effect Using jQuery
Build a slick little mootools-esque effect using the jQuery library
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PHP Has No Culture of Testing
Charles Nutter, a Sun engineer who has worked on the JRuby project, commented on PHP in a panel discussion at Sun's CommunityOne conference. I will... more »
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