Our Favorite Development Tools and Resources
jQuery Guides
These are posts we have written that give information and advice on general approaches to take when working with jQuery.
Building a jQuery Calendar for The Salvation Army
This post covers a project we did with a design partner -- building a nice looking calendar that showed the upcoming events for the Wake County Salvation Army. The events are categorized and filterable. This has the HTML/CSS/jQuery requred to build the calendar.
Why you should write mini-plugins in your projects
Create a jQuery calendar with AJAX, PHP, and a remote data source
Highlighting Raleigh with a jQuery microsite
jQuery Plugins
Whenever we do a project that requires a cool jQuery effect -- we are sure to write a plugin for it. Here is a list of the plugins we have released and you can use on your site today!
A Plugin for a Well-Designed jQuery Map
This post has been one of our most popular. We build this map with a design partner to highlight Marine Science locations across North Carolina using a highly stylized map. We have since developed this into a reusable jquery map plugin.
jQuery Portfolio Plugin that is Interactive and Filterable
We have clients that fall into a number of different categories so we wanted to build a cool portfolio that reflected that. We categorized our clients and then built a slick jquery plugin that allowed them to be filtered on the fly. This is a great resource for designers to showcase their work.
A jQuery Plugin for Easy Image Captions
CSS Sprites2 Refactored: Building an Unobtrusive jQuery Plugin
A Plugin for Expandable Code Areas
Select Multiple Checkboxes Easily
Add a Konami Code Easter Egg to your Site
CSS/HTML Techniques
Websites like Wine: CSS Techniques to make a site Better With Age
There are CSS3 techniques you can use today that will degrade nice in older browsers. If you put them into place, your site will look better and better as more visitors begin using modern browsers. This post is a summary of the best techniques.
Lazy Development: Using Templates to Save Time
Nicer Navigation with CSS Transitions
HTML 5: Should we be excited yet?
Move your Script Tags to Quickly Improve Site Performance
Server-Side Development
How to use Bing's Powerful Search APIs
Bing!'s search API can provide search results programmatically as XML or JSON. Search results are fetched from various sources, including the Web, Images, News, Encarta Online, Phonebook, RelatedSearch, and Advertisements. This is a powerful resource that Google doesn't make available.
Dynamic Image Resizing with a Smarty Plugin
Unacceptable Browser HTTP Accept Headers
Launch of Recess: a Restful PHP Framework
Create a jQuery calendar with AJAX, PHP, and a remote data source
Software Engineering
Virtualization and the Throw-away Computer
A virtual machine is, as the name implies, a full-blown emulated computer that runs "sandboxed" on your desktop. Virtual machines allow Mac users to enjoy Windows from within OSX, they allow Linux to be run on Windows, and generally allow you to run virtual computers with whatever operating system you please.
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