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Massive Regular Expressions Toolbox

August 16, 2009 Development

Regular expressions (“regex’s” for short) are sets of symbols and syntactic elements used to match patterns of text and they are pretty powerful. Regular expressions have been around for a very long time (in computer industry scale) and was first introduced as part of the powerful UNIX search tool grep. The regex syntax used commonly [...]

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25+ Awesome Slider Techniques NEED TO HAVE for any Web Developer

August 13, 2009 Development

Animated sliding effects can if not used wrong or to much add excellent dynamics and uniqueness to websites. They are often seen as components that give access to multiple featured articles in an elegant and very space optimized way. Generally sliding effects are created using CSS and Javascript and typically javascript frameworks like jQuery and [...]

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16 Stunning Mootools scripts for enhancing your html forms

August 11, 2009 Development

Forms are one of the most important part of a website because thay allow users to submit information. But forms also require a lot of work to look good and to be easy to use. The good news is that others have made most of the hard work for you. If you use Javascript frameworks [...]

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Excellent Free Editors and IDEs for Developers

August 10, 2009 Development

Most developers have picked their favourite editor and/or IDE and use it many hours every day (and night). Still it can be quite useful to know what the free alternatives are. Some of the free editors and IDEs available are really high quality and may be worth investigating. If your manly using a large IDE [...]

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20 Great Websites I find very useful and worth recommending to Web-Developers and Designers

August 6, 2009 Inspiration

For web-developers and designer it is important to have a list of great of websites and blogs for hunting inspiration and, structured information and answers to difficult questions. The “supply” is huge but it is not everywhere you will find truly high quality content. It is like every day there is a new blog or [...]

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Loads of Essential PHP Tools & Resources For Web Developers

August 1, 2009 Development

PHP is one of the most popular development languages for building dynamic web applications today. PHP offers many advantages; it is fast, stable, secure, easy to use and open source (free) but it was created by Zend and some critics complain about PHP being influenced by commercial interests and that PHP could be much better [...]

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30+ Essential Javascript Framework Supported Navigation Techniques

July 29, 2009 Development

Navigation is key to any web site or blog. Good and user friendly navigation making it easy for your visitors to get around fast is simply one of the most elemental elements of web design and development. It is possible to create user-friendly horizontal or vertical navigation menus using CSS and there are hundreds of [...]

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Dojo Javascript Framework, Take your Web Apps to the Next Level

July 22, 2009 Development

Dojo Toolkit is an open-source JavaScript toolkit useful for building dynamic web applications. It aims to shorten the timespan between idea and implementation by providing a well conceived API and set of tools for assisting and fixing the issues experienced in everyday web development. It is fast, robust, and supplies a solid set of tools [...]

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35 Extremely Useful Free Online Tools for Web Developers and Designer

July 21, 2009 Tools

Creating Web Sites is not a simple task at all and the value of getting some help from useful online tools should not be underestimated. Creating web applications requires deep knowledge and experience with many different tools, techniques, standards etc. and it is hard for developers and designers to keep track. The purpose of this [...]

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60+ Must Have jQuery Toolbox

July 21, 2009 Development

When developing Web Applications one of the most challenging tasks is to make the solution cross-browser compliant. It’s been this was since the early days of www and it is not likely to change in the near future. Client side scripting is very important for creating interactive functionality and dynamic effects on web pages but [...]

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