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Create a Stylish Tweet Book With jQuery and CSS

Twitter is a popular social networking service used by millions of users to share text-based content. It has been described as the “SMS of the Internet.” Rakhitha Nimesh loves to tweet links and ideas he is interested as well as follow other people with similar interests. Everyone loves to follow a lot of people and hence there is a possibility of missing the most important tweets. So in this tutorial he is going to create a stylish Tweet book to keep your best friends and view their Tweets.

Ivo Rangelov

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Photo Booth Strips With Lightbox

In this tutorial Mary Lou will show you how to create some cute looking photo strips and integrate Lightbox. The idea is to show some photo strips and make them navigable by scrolling with the mousewheel. When clicking on a picture it will show the larger version using jQuery Lightbox. She will also optimize it for touch devices.

Ivo Rangelov

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Journey Through The JavaScript MVC Jungle

When writing a Web application from scratch, it’s easy to feel like you can get by simply by relying on a DOM manipulation library (like jQuery) and a handful of utility plugins. The problem with this is that it doesn’t take long to get lost in a nested pile of jQuery callbacks and DOM elements without any real structure in place for your applications.

Lubov Cholakova

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jQuery++ Plugins to Cover Gaps in the jQuery

David Luecke offers a MIT licensed collection of extremely useful DOM helpers and special events for jQuery 1.7 and later. This is not a UI project like jQuery UI or jQuery Tools. Instead, it is all about providing low-level utilities for things that jQuery doesn’t support. If Underscore is jQuery’s functional-programming tie, this is jQuery’s bald-spot covering toupee.

Ivo Rangelov

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Introduction To JavaScript Unit Testing

What is a unit anyway? In the best case, it is a pure function that you can deal with in some way — a function that always gives you the same result for a given input. This makes unit testing pretty easy, but most of the time you need to deal with side effects, which here means DOM manipulations. It’s still useful to figure out which units you can structure your code into and to build unit tests accordingly.

Ivo Rangelov

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Create a Parallax Scrolling Website

The parallax scrolling effect has been popular ever since sites such as Nike’s Better World introduced it on their websites a few years ago. The parallax effect with regard to interfaces has been around since the 1980's when it was first used in video game titles and subsequently in games themselves. More recently it started to make an appearance in web interfaces.

Ivo Rangelov

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Useful jQuery Functions For Your Projects

Every aspiring Web developer should know about the power of JavaScript and how it can be used to enhance the ways in which people see and interact with Web pages. Fortunately, to help you be more productive, Sam Deering can use the power of JavaScript libraries, and in this article he will take a good look at jQuery in action.

Ivo Rangelov

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JavaScript

Diving into CanJS

If you haven’t heard, there’s a new kid in town: CanJS. What better way to dive into what this new framework offers than to build a contacts manager application? When you’re done with this three-part series, you’ll have all the tools you need to build your own JavaScript applications! Building a JavaScript application without the right tools is difficult. While jQuery is great at what it does, a DOM manipulation library doesn’t provide any infrastructure for building applications. This is specifically why you need to use a library, like CanJS.

Ivo Rangelov

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Prototypes in JavaScript

JavaScript’s prototype object generates confusion wherever it goes. Seasoned JavaScript professionals, even authors frequently exhibit a limited understanding of the concept. Angus Croll believes a lot of the trouble stems from our earliest encounters with prototypes, which almost always relate to new, constructor and the very misleading prototype property attached to functions. In fact prototype is a remarkably simple concept.

Ivo Rangelov

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An Introduction to Modernizr for Designers

It’s rare nowadays to find a web designer who can’t code his own designs. With so many resources online and in print that teach the basics of HTML and CSS, and due to the fact that these languages aren’t rocket science, there are now a lot of graphic designers who have at least basic knowledge of markup and styling. But with an HTML and CSS foundation comes great responsibility. If an HTML or CSS feature doesn’t work in certain browsers, we need to ensure that we offer those browsers a secondary or fallback experience.

Ivo Rangelov

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