Tutorial Ideas

I have several ideas of screencasts that I am going to be creating and submitting up here for you guys. I am going to try to start pushing some of those out this week. I was also wondering what some of  you would like to see? What kidn of tutorials would like to find here? [...]

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TeamViewer vs Local Web Server

I recently started using TeamViewer to accomplish some of my remote administration tasks. I have been a loyal fan of LogMeIn for several years now. I love their service, but there is two features that I extremely liked about TeamViewer that are not offered as an option to LogMeIn Free subscribers. These two features are [...]

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Easy AJAX Post with jQuery and CodeIgniter

I’ve seen quite a few people come into the CodeIgniter forums asking how to use jQuery’s built in AJAX functionality to post to a CodeIgniter function. In this tutorial I will walk you through creating the form, writing the jQuery, posting to the function, and working with handling the result. It’s actually really easy.
In this [...]

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PHP/JS Contest: Win an iPhone 3GS at Nettuts

Nettuts has a PHP/Javascript competition going on right now for all you scripters. All you have to do to enter is create a new script (PHP or Javascript) and submit it to Themeforest. If your script is approved by the moderators, post a link to your script to the competition entry form. After that, you’re [...]

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Creating A Simple Tooltip Using jQuery and CSS

Over time, I’ve noticed a lot of scripts and plugins that are available to simply add tooltips to items on a page. Adding a plugin for something that simply is overkill. Adding a plugin for tooltips  typically requires that you include an additional script and an additional stylesheet (depending on which one you use). In [...]

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CodeIgniter From Scratch: Day 2

Jeffrey Way has posted his second video screencast about the CodeIgniter framework on Nettuts today. In this second screencast JW covers the topic of Models. Jeffrey explains the purpose of using models, walks you through creating your first model and function, as well as using it to retrieve records that are stored in a database. [...]

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50 Great CSS Tricks

Found a great list of CSS tutorials and tricks on Smashing Magazine this morning. Everything from creating great layouts, stylesheet optimization, creating inline navigation menu’s, etc.
CSS is almost certainly one of the best developments in web design since the first graphical web browsers were adopted on a wide scale. Where tables created clunky, slow-loading pages, [...]

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CodeIgniter: Installation and Setup

I’ve seen quite a few CodeIgniter tutorials and screencasts out there and none that I have seen seem to cover everything that I thought should be covered in an initial install. I decided I would finally try to put together one of my own to help some of the newer members get things going, as [...]

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