As a programmer always thirsty to learn new tech, I also love to get a refresher and learn something new in the process. That is why a couple of times a month I go to the local bookstore (Chapters here in Canada) and browse many of the new books in stock. Over the last few years especially, the computer book section has gotten a bit sparse. It makes sense, many ...
Like me you probably have several YouTube channels that you like to follow. Maybe you enjoy that crazy cat video channel or the channel which shows stupid people doing stupid stuff. Either way you want to bring those favorite channels to the world in all their glory on your site. One thing you want to do however is combine those channels into one feed and display the feed on your ...
First I want to say Happy 2015 everyone! It seems to me the more frustrated programmers get with their code problem domains the more likely they are to take it out on the languages they are using. Naturally JavaScript and PHP both take the brunt of the abuse because of their popularity, sometimes necessity and of course their numerous implementation oddities. A lot of programmers working with these languages == ...
For the sake of argument, let's assume you have to pass a plethora of JavaScript values to PHP through a POST submission. Maybe it is an array of numbers or simple point objects. You want to do this quickly and don't want to be bothered with using a hidden form or having to list out a ton of fields in some long data string that you give to a jQuery ...
Some number of years ago web browser developers came up with the idea of allowing JavaScript to pull data from other sites into a web page on-the-fly. That day AJAX was born! Short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, this technology provided a mechanism for web pages to change their content without requiring the whole page to be refreshed. It was a great idea and has revolutionized some of the way ...
Everywhere you go on the web you see some sort of slider or scrolling widget on the page. You see a lot of them on blogs advertising the latest posts, you see them on event pages showing shots of the audience and speakers and you even see them on software company homepages showing screenshots of the their latest software release. Sure you can get a ton of different ones from ...
