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Ajaxify Standard Forms Instantly – ALAJAX

Umut M. — Sun, 20 May 2012 08:48:55 +0000

Today, using JavaScript frameworks, it is so easy to accomplish complex stuff with few lines of code, including Ajax. For forms, if you want to make it much easier, ALAJAX is there for you. It is a jQuery plugin that automagically converts standard forms into Ajaxed ones, no coding required. Once inserted and the forms [...]

Aggregate Data From Multiple Sources Into A Single HTML – PubwichFork

Umut M. — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:59:15 +0000

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Previously, WRD had shared Pubwich, an open source application that can fetch data from different sources. It is not updated since 2010 and there is a regularly updated fork named PubwichFork. To remind, the application can aggregate any published data from multiple sources including websites + social networks and display them in a single-page. The [...]

Juicebox Lite – Free HTML5 Image Gallery (With A Desktop Builder)

Umut M. — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:03:18 +0000

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Image galleries are part of almost any website around whether it is about displaying the portfolio, products or personal albums,we simply use them a lot. Juicebox Lite is a free-to-use (branded) and HTML5-powered image gallery for creating good-looking galleries very easily. Galleries build with it works everywhere; desktop, tablet or mobile and handles different screen [...]

A Different JavaScript Calendar – jQuery Verbose Calendar

Umut M. — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:15:26 +0000

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jQuery Verbose Calendar is a plugin for creating a calendar that displays the whole months and days of a year at the same time. Once loaded, it auto-scrolls to "today" and displays the day names when hovered to any date in a tooltip. The calendar can be inserted into any HTML element with a single [...]

Open Source Tool To Backup Gmail Accounts: Gmvault

Umut M. — Wed, 16 May 2012 10:54:00 +0000

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Gmail is probably the most widely used e-mail provider between creative people. It is always simplistic, modern and always works. Personally, besides my personal e-mail, I use their "custom domain" feature for handling the e-mails of all my projects. As expected, the content there is very valuable and hard to risk losing. Gmvault is an [...]

Infragistics jQuery Controls – Impressive & Professional jQuery Toolset

Umut M. — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:30:05 +0000

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Info: This is a review of a paid resource. There are lots of jQuery plugins around that handle specific tasks and, for JavaScript-heavy apps, we may end up in using many of them. Working with such many different resources at the same project is sometimes hard and can be time consuming as they all have [...]

EU Cookie Law: 2 jQuery Plugins To Not Break It

Umut M. — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:44:37 +0000

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Many of us probably heard the EU Cookie Law already and thinking about "what to do" and many others should be saying: "cookie what?". What is it? It is a European Union e-Privacy Directive that will become active on 26th May 2012 and "requires website owners to take the permission of the user before placing anything (cookies, [...]

If A Single File Gets Hacked, Will Millions Of Websites Be Affected? (Discussion)

Umut M. — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:22:32 +0000

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Info: This is a little different post than you see everyday at WRD. It is a concern that popped up while working on "speeding up stuff" and think/hope it is worth discussing. Please share what you think. I'm usually a fan of hosting all the files used in websites myself, under the same location with [...]

Social Sharing Buttons Under Control: Socialite.js

Umut M. — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:00:05 +0000

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Socialite.js is a JavaScript library for having more control over social sharing buttons. The library is lightweight (2kb minified-gzipped), standalone and helps the social widgets to load when you want them or only when needed/requested to speed up web pages. It has support for the major players: Twitter, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Spotify. There is [...]

Create Desktop Apps With HTML-CSS-JS: AppJS

Umut M. — Sun, 13 May 2012 17:24:23 +0000

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Desktop apps definitely have their own advantages over web apps like speed, ability to reach the filesystem, working in the background, notifications, etc. However, for us (the web developers), it is a challenge to create one as they need to be coded in a non-web programming language (yes, there are exceptions). AppJS is an exciting resource [...]