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jQuery Knob, Dials in Data
A new jQuery-based JavaScript library transforms a standard, HTML text input into a dial interface that can be manipulated with a mouse, a keyboard, or a touch screen. Anthony Terrien's Knob library uses an HTML5 canvas to create a very function...
17 Mobile HTML5 Tools and Tutorials
It's time for the mobile web. Developing and optimizing HTML5 sites for mobile is an inexpensive and practical strategy to engage the growing number of mobile users. Here is a list of tools and tutorials to develop mobile HTML5 apps and sites....
MySQL Temporary Tables for Data Migration, Manipulation
MySQL temporary tables allow developers to consolidate data from several tables across one or more databases, potentially avoiding complicated joins and missed data while improving query performance. With a few exceptions, temporary MySQL tables ...
Use mysqlimport to Import Text Files to Database Tables
The mysqlimport client lets developers import simple delimited text files into like-named MySQL tables from the Linux command line. Data migration is a common task for any modern business, as vendors or third-party service providers often drop fi...
How to Update MySQL Data Across Joined Tables
MySQL allows rows from several tables to be simultaneously updated, accelerating many common database tasks. Businesses often rely on a number of database-driven software solutions as well as external data for everything from purchasing and inven...
18 HTML5 and CSS3 Generators
Code generators are good things. If you’re a new designer, HTML5 and CSS3 generators allow you to experiment with the code, manipulate it, and see how it works. If you’re an experienced designer, generators are simple and functional tools to compl...
19 Boilerplates, Templates and Resets to Jumpstart Your Project
Don’t start every project from scratch. Boilerplates, templates and resets offer base foundations to your projects, so you can focus on the fun stuff. Here is a collection of boilerplates, templates and resets to jumpstart your projects. There ...
18 Tools and Tutorials for Modernizr
Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that tests for HTML and CSS features. If a feature does not work in certain browsers, Modernizr enables you to offer those browsers a fallback experience. Modernizr helps you deliver the best site exp...
18 Tools and Tutorials for HTML5 Canvas
HTML5 canvas allows scripts to dynamically render 2D bitmap images. In addition to basic shapes, canvas can be used to build graphs, animations, games, and image composition. Here is a list of tools and tutorials for HTML5 canvas. There are basic...
How to Place Pinterest Pins in a Facebook Tab
You can show recent Pinterest updates in a Facebook tab with PHP and a single component of the powerful Zend Framework. Pinterest lets users “pin” — which is posting or publishing — interesting images or videos to boards that are available to any...
Topics for Becoming a PHP Master: A Book Review
There are legions of web developers whose skills are derived not from traditional college classes but from practical experience, do-it-yourself books, and online tutorials combined for a sort of digital-age apprenticeship program. Certainly, ther...
CSS3 Box Shadows for 2012
CSS3 box shadows make it possible to create great looking web buttons and similar site features without using images. The CSS3 box-shadow property is now supported in every major web browser — although Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple S...
20 Tutorial Videos on HTML5
HTML5 enables you to build rich websites, as well as cross-platform mobile application. If you’re new to HTML5, you can get all the training you’ll need from free online screencasts. Here is a list of free video tutorials for HTML5. There are ove...
Creating Columns with CSS3
When Internet Explorer 10 is released, CSS3's multi-column layout module finally will be supported in all major browsers, enabling new, adaptive, multi-column web designs that will be mobile-friendly, simple, and pleasing to the eye. The World Wi...
26 PHP Tools and Tutorials
PHP is a popular open source scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. As a server-side scripting language, PHP enables the developer to execute code and generate HTML, which is then sent on to...
Cooking Up Great Web Development, A Book Review
Web development, as a profession, changes and evolves frequently, requiring web developers to learn new skills and techniques in order to face fresh challenges. Ruby on Rails, PHP 5.4, Node.js, jQuery Mobile, Mustache templates, and CoffeeScript ...
Use an Attribute to Add YouTube Videos to Magento Pages
Product-related videos are an excellent way to engage shoppers and improve conversion rates. So it is little wonder that many web developers are tasked with placing videos on product detail pages. While there are a number of excellent ways to imp...
33 jQuery Mobile Tutorials
jQuery Mobile is a unified HTML5-based interface for all popular mobile platforms. Built on the jQuery and jQuery UI foundations, the jQuery mobile framework allows you to design a single branded and customized application for all mobile devices. ...
Unlock the Linux Command Line, A Book Review
For some Internet professionals, the Linux command line is a milestone in the transition from a person who can write code to a proper web developer, capable of mastering the machine that is the web Linux server. 'The difference,” between using th...
11 HTML5 Video Players
HTML5 makes it easy for designers and developers to implement their own video content. However, not all visiting browsers support HTML5 elements. Fortunately there are a number of tools available to post video via HTML5 that include a seamless fal...