25 Useful jQuery Tooltip Plugins and Tutorials

August 26th, 2010 admin Posted in HTML & XHTML Tutorials, JavaScript & AJAX Tutorials | No Comments »

If you are looking to give your readers the option of a little bit more information or optional extra navigation, a great solution is to use Tooltips. Tooltips are a “common graphical user interface element, that are used in conjunction with a cursor, usually a mouse pointer. The user hovers the cursor over an item, without clicking it, and a small box appears with extra information regarding the item being hovered over” (via Wikipedia). To give your tooltip extra functionality and vesatilty the best and simplest solution is using Javascript, especially jQuery.
In this post we have collected 25 of the best jQuery Tooltip Plugins and Tutorials to help with your next project.

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Perfect Full Page Background Image

August 20th, 2010 admin Posted in CSS Tutorials, Design and Layout, HTML & XHTML Tutorials, JavaScript & AJAX Tutorials | No Comments »

We visited this concept of re-sizeable background images before… but reader Doug Shults sent me in a link that uses a really awesome technique that I think is better than any of the previous techniques. Read the rest of this entry »

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Top 12 CSS Frameworks and How to Understand Them

July 28th, 2010 admin Posted in CSS Tutorials, HTML & XHTML Tutorials | No Comments »

A CSS framework is a library that is meant to allow for easier, more standards-compliant styling of a webpage using the Cascading Style Sheets language. Just like programming and scripting language libraries, CSS frameworks package a number of ready-made options for designing and outlaying a webpage. . Read the rest of this entry »

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Blueprint a CSS framework

July 28th, 2010 admin Posted in CSS Tutorials, HTML & XHTML Tutorials | No Comments »

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing. Read the rest of this entry »

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Zend Framework Form(Zend_Form) tutorial

July 26th, 2010 admin Posted in Open source | No Comments »

I got “The Zahir”, a novel by Paula Coelho about a month back, very sweat one and highly intrigued. It was highly entertaining and most importantly author shared his experiences in a nice way. I learned plenty of new ideas. Read the rest of this entry »

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Adobe Flex with Struts 2 using HttpService

July 18th, 2010 admin Posted in Open source, Web Services | No Comments »

Using HttpService is the easiest way in which you can integrate Adobe Flex and Struts 2. As an example I will show you how you can create a registration form in Adobe Flex which calls a struts 2 action to create new users. Note that this example is very simple and for demonstration purposes. I am not adding any validation in flex and not even creating the users in a database. All I show you is how you can pass data between flex and struts. Read the rest of this entry »

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video tutorials on the Zend web application framework for PHP.

July 1st, 2010 admin Posted in Open source | No Comments »

These are just the first of many planned video tutorials on the Zend web application framework for PHP.

These particular videos require a little more background knowledge from the viewer, in terms of overall php development experience. Read the rest of this entry »

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Zend Framework Basic Tutorial

July 1st, 2010 admin Posted in PHP & MySQL | No Comments »

Zend Framework is open source PHP Framework.

What is Zend Framework?

  • framework for building web faster and robust.
  • Created by the company main supporters of PHP, Zend.
  • Supporting web 2.0 and cloud computing technologies.

Why Zend Framework?

  • Free and open source framework
  • Extreme Simplicity
  • High productivity
  • Flexible Architecture
  • Supported by more than 300 contributor, include IBM and other major companies Read the rest of this entry »

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Zend Framework: Using Smarty as template engine

July 1st, 2010 admin Posted in PHP & MySQL | No Comments »

Zend Framework’s View class has very bad capability for extending. It contains template variables but does not allow to access them, it has array with different pathes (templates, filters), but does not allow to add another type or access them. Therefor only way to use Smarty with Zend Framework is to abandon Zend_View and manipulate Smarty object directly. Read the rest of this entry »

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DataGrid for Zend Framework

July 1st, 2010 admin Posted in PHP & MySQL | No Comments »

Top Features:

  • Doctrine Support
  • Zend_Form for CRUD operations
  • Zend_Config Support
  • Multiple Instances per page (no conflicts at all…)
  • Support for Extra Rows
  • Conditional Fields Presentation
  • Option for detailed view
  • PRG Form processing
  • Render specific parts separately (filters, titles, pagination, etc…)
  • Conditional Fields Rendering
  • jqGrid Rendering => Demo: http://zfdatagrid.com/grid/default/jqgrid
  • Open Flash Chart support => Demo: http://zfdatagrid.com/grid/default/site/ofc
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