Javascript in Modern Web Design In today's web design, Javascript is a must-have component. Aside from its functionality, Javascript can enhance user experience by creating transitional effects such as fading and sliding animation. Thanks to the open source Javascript frameworks, we don't need to write custom Javascript from scratch anymore. Here are 47 Javascript plugins that you can use to enhance the user experience and functionality of your website. The Two Popular Javascript Frameworks Right now, the two commonly used Javascript frameworks are: jQuery and MooTools. Loading ... Image Zoom and Popup Lightbox You're probably very familiar with Lightbox — a light Javascript used to display overlay images on the current page. jQuery lightBox Plugin This is exactly the same as Lightbox JS, but written on top of jQuery library. Thickbox Thickbox is a jQuery plugin that is very similar to Lightbox, but comes with more features. Note: Web Designer Wall uses Thickbox to display the gallery images and tutorial demos. Highslide JS
New Adventures in Software » More Stupid Java Tricks My previous post was reasonably popular so I decided to follow-up with some more stupid Java tricks. It should go without saying that you shouldn’t use these techniques in any serious code, unless of course your objective is to write unmaintainable code. It was pointed out to me by a couple of people that the puzzle I posed previously is also in Josh Bloch and Neal Gafter’s excellent Java Puzzlers book. If you are interested in all of the ugly corners of the Java platform, this book is well worth buying. Unchecked Checked Exceptions Throw checked exceptions without the hassle of dealing with them There’s a lot of debate about the relative merits of checked and unchecked exceptions in Java. The slightly more socially-acceptable Class.newInstance() method is another way. Note that this method propagates any exception thrown by the nullary constructor, including a checked exception. Invasion of Privacy Strings aren’t really immutable, even literals can’t be trusted then this prints this Any more?