TJHooker's Tuts

With Dojo, jQuery, and MooTools the tasks are similar — the syntax is simply different. Here are a few basic JavaScript tasks and the syntax to accomplish them within each awesome framework.

Submitted by: TJHooker
Submitted on: 04-27-2010

In an effort to tie the website and blog together, developers commonly throw together some quick PHP/MySQL programming to pull in recent blog post titles and links to the individual posts. Here’s the PHP and MySQL that accomplishes that task.

Submitted by: TJHooker
Submitted on: 04-27-2010

Email code is the necessary part of programing. On several occassions, you need to generate some email to convey piece of information to end user. For example, when user signs up your site, you may want to send him a confirmation code for accessiblity. Sometimes you need to send newsletters or you may want end user forward a certain page to hs friend.

Submitted by: TJHooker
Submitted on: 12-21-2009

One excellent way to add dynamism to any website is to implement a slideshow featuring images or sliding content. Of course there are numerous slideshow plugins available but many of them can be overkill if you want to do simple slideshow without controls or events. We’re going to create a simple slideshow from which we’ll build on.

Submitted by: TJHooker
Submitted on: 12-21-2009

With the recent unemployment rates, everybody realizes that job security is important. The best way to keep a job is to be irreplaceable. If no one can maintain the code you write, you have a job for life. Writing unmaintainable code is a special skill that seems to come quite naturally to certain developers. For the rest of you, here are some tips and tricks to get you started.

Submitted by: TJHooker
Submitted on: 12-21-2009

This PHP tutorial fetches your last 10 tweets containing links using the Twitter Search API, then displays them in an unordered list (<ul>). It requires PHP 5.2.0 or above to use PHP’s built-in JSON functions.

Submitted by: TJHooker
Submitted on: 12-16-2009

In this step-by-step web design layout tutorial, you will discover a method for designing a clean blog design with stunning gradient and lighting effects using Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial is geared for beginner to intermediate Photoshop users.

Submitted by: TJHooker
Submitted on: 08-14-2009

With browsers rendering JavaScript faster than ever before, it’s a great opportunity to get creative with jQuery. This tutorial will show how to create a scrolling 3D tag cloud…it’s not as difficult as you might think.

Submitted by: TJHooker
Submitted on: 08-14-2009

One problem with HTML forms is it is hard to style the elements to fit into your design. The tutorial will show you how to style the hardest of them all, the select box.

Submitted by: TJHooker
Submitted on: 08-14-2009

CSS isn’t nearly as tricky as some people tend to believe. This tutorial has tips and techniques for creating and styling design elements with CSS. It's a good place to start if you’re new to CSS but are valuable even if you’re a veteran designer. Not all the techniques are strictly CSS; some include integration with JavaScript or XHTML to extend the functionality of your site.

Submitted by: TJHooker
Submitted on: 08-14-2009