developer toolbox

13 Essential Tools for Freelancers to Track Time

October 20, 2009 Business

Getting started as a freelancer or a startup company with only a few employees selling design or development services requires efficiency, organization and ability to keep costs at a minimum and that hours delivered are all turned into cash. Getting started opens a world of business opportunities, interesting challenges and pit falls. Being able to [...]

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10+ jQuery Form Enhancement Plugins

October 18, 2009 Development

Easy user interaction and data collection is really a key functionality on most websites and web applications. Providing users high quality and intuitive input forms may be just what is needed to make your users take the time to fill in and submit the information you’re trying to collect. In this article I have collected [...]

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5 New jQuery Plugins I bet You have not seen before

October 13, 2009 Development

jQuery is very popular and there’s a lot of plugins available to solve both simple and complex tasks for us in a snap. While there a many articles listing great jQuery plugins we have seen many times before I have decided to create a list of brand new and worth investigating plugins that havejust been [...]

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The Ultimate WordPress Developer Toolbox

October 7, 2009 Wordpress

WordPress needs no introduction. It powerful, highly popular and have a huge community providing loads of free and premium themes and plugins. Still you may fell like creating your own themes or plugins could be fun or a way to get the functionality and look and fell you need. It is not that hard to [...]

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40+ Quite Useful WordPress Plugins using jQuery

October 6, 2009 Wordpress

WordPress needs no introduction and same is true for jQuery. Both are powerful, highly popular and have huge communities providing loads of useful and free addons. Bring WordPress and jQuery together really makes sense and the plugins for WordPress you’ll find here will make your blog theme more powerful and dynamic. Please leave a comment [...]

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35+ Create Amazing Image Effects and Sliders with These Awesome jQuery Plugins

September 22, 2009 Development

JavaScript frameworks like jQuery, prototype (and script.aculo.us), Dojo and mootools have become very popular because they are making the creation of dynamic effects much easier without using fx. flash. jQuery has become one of the most used JavaScript libraries today and can be found in the core of popular products like WordPress and Drupal. The [...]

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Expectually Useful Apache Rewrite Techniques Explained

August 26, 2009 Development

Apache HTTP Server (usually just Apache) has been the most popular web server in the Internet for more than a decade, with millions of installations serving up a huge portion of the World Wide Web. In 2009 it became the first web server to surpass the 100 million web site milestone. As of july 2009[update] [...]

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25+ Great HTML 5 Resources to Get You Started

August 21, 2009 HTML

HTML 4 has been around for nearly a decade now, and much have happened since HTML 4 landed. The way we use the Internet have taken dramatic turns and the I think the most significant turn is the trend of desktop applications and games going online running in browsers. Many people don’t use email clients [...]

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20 MySQL Admin and Development Tools and cheat sheets

August 20, 2009 Tools

MySQL is a very feature rich relational database management system (RDBMS) which has more than 11 million active installations and 60,000+ downloads/day. MySQL is commonly known to be an open source project available for free under GNU General Public License – this version of MySQL is called Community Server. MySQL Community Server is very often [...]

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20 Websites With Excellent Tutorials and Cheat Sheets for Flash and Action Script

August 18, 2009 Development

Adobe Flash goes back several years and have turned into an excellent development platform. It allows developers to push the boundaries for what is possible to achieve with a web page. Flash even have allowed companies to create great online games running in web browsers. Even though they are not so common as earlier some [...]

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