Short URL is commonly used today for several reasons: avoid url garbling, take smallest space especially for long url which need to be posted at limited space format eg: twitter, also often used to manipulate user for specific purposes eg: hiding orginal url for phising and ads/affiliation links.
There are many websites that provide shortening url services, tinyurl, bit.ly, hex.io are some of them, and as addition to my simple twitter, plurk and facebook api implementation, i have created a P... Read Full Story
Thomas Fuchs has announced the alpha release of scripty2, the successor of well known, powerful and flexible javascript library script.aculo.us. scripty2 is designed to help you write your own delicious visual effects & user interfaces.
Check out the demo to see the possibilities scripty2 can do, however as it is still in alpha version which means there will be tweaking and rewrite into the library and it is not yet recommended for production use. Read Full Story
80+ social network icons which consists of 40+ 16 pixel x 16 pixel icons and 40+ 32 pixel by 32 pixel icons all in 32-bit PNG format by komodomedia.
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jQuery validation engine, yet another nice form validation plugin for jquery javascript framework, comes with language localization supported and many predefined validation rules:
optional: Special: Only validate when the field is not empty
required: Field is required
length[0,100] : Between x and x characters allowed
minCheckbox[7] : Set the maximum checkbox autorized for a group
confirm[fieldID] : Match the other field (ie:confirm password)
telephone : Match telephone regEx rule.
email : M... Read Full Story
Dajax is an easy to use ajax library for django inspired by php xajax library. Dajax allow django developers to integrate ajax functionality directly from their django application. The client side part is rely on prototype js library but intend to have support for other javascipts library in the future . Lincensed under new BSD License.
Check out the links: download, installation instructions, available settings. Read Full Story
Simple tutorial to update twitter status via twitter API and Classic ASP (VBScript) and directly shortenize url using TinyURL service, uses COM Object Microsoft XMLHTTP. Read Full Story
Smashing Magazine released a free icon set contains 9 “toys” icons (png, 128×128px) that may come in handy in a variety of settings – e.g. in projects related to children and family. The files are transparent PNGs, and the source file (.eps) is included as well. As always, the set is completely free and may be used for any private or commercial project without any restrictions whatsoever.
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We have tweetdeck, twhirl and few more other out there to bring our favourite social network functionality to the desktop, but do you want to bring any of your favourite website into your desktop like gmail or youtube? if you do, this news is for you. Mozilla has released the version 1.0 of prism firefox extension. It is an extension for firefox which allow you to transform your favourite web application to the desktop ones.
Access web apps from system taskbar or dock, Prism apps run directl... Read Full Story
For classic asp developer among you who have been trying to embed flickr photos in your own web page, this is maybe for you, I have written an article about how to get flickr photos via flickr API and classic asp.
This script was made while I am redesigning my freelance web work site, since I already put some of portfolio screenshots in my flickr account, then i decided to use it in my portfolio section rather than re-uploaded in my own server.
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For web designers among you who have been using sIFR, facelift or other image replacement techniques, and has facing problems in particular browser then you may need to try Cufon, a fast text replacement with canvas and VML.
Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. To achieve this ambitious goal the following requirements were set and have been met:
No plug-ins required – it can only use features natively su... Read Full Story
