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Useful JavaScript and jQuery Tools, Libraries, Plugins - Smashing Magazine

Useful JavaScript and jQuery Tools, Libraries, Plugins - Smashing Magazine
Advertisement Recently we’ve been receiving more requests for carefully selected, useful round-ups. We try to avoid round-ups on Smashing Magazine, but sometimes the format is useful and — if the resources are relevant — can be extremely helpful. Besides, we are glad to drive traffic to some obscure, yet useful resources and thus support the developers of these resources. In this round-up, you’ll find some of the useful JavaScript and jQuery tools, libraries and plugins that we have stumbled upon recently. Hopefully, you’ll find them valuable for your upcoming projects. You might want to take a look at the following related posts: Useful JavaScript Libraries Respond.js: Fast CSS3 Media Queries for Internet Explorer 6-8 and More5The goal of this script is to provide a fast and lightweight script to enable responsive Web designs in browsers that don’t support CSS3 Media Queries. highlight.js10Highlight.js highlights syntax in code examples on blogs, forums and in fact on any web pages.

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Sticky Sidebar jQuery plugin This jQuery plugin allows you to set a number of sidebar or floating boxes that follow the user down the page as they scroll. The plugin uses absolute positioning calculated from the original css and offset to either the closest positioned parent or to the document. The plugin has been tested in IE6-9 and all the other major browsers. The JavaScript (jQuery) Below is the code for the plugin, to download the code with examples use the link above. jQuery Performance Tips and Tricks jQuery Performance Tips and Tricks Addy Osmani, AOL 18 July 2011 jQuery Proven Performance Tips & Tricks Performance optimisation is a crucial aspect of building ‘snappy’ client-side applications and something which all developers using jQuery should bear in mind. In Addy Osmani's (@addy_osmani) talk, he'll take a look at some of the best practices, tips and tricks for improving the performance of your jQuery code in 2011, with some quick wins and a few new surprises along the way. For more on Addy’s work, check out his official website AddyOsmani.com for tutorials, jQuery.com for his community updates and magazines such as .NET for his thoughts and commentaries.

Slide Menu Demo Section One - Foo Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean feugiat elementum pulvinar. Duis varius aliquet lobortis. Nam adipiscing risus sed tortor scelerisque pellentesque. 12 Wesbite to Learn jQuery Jquery is a great way to get a lot of cool things to happen on your website. You must take the time to learn it, in this post I give you 12 Wesbites to Learn jQuery. This is just to get your feet wet its always best to take a class or pick up a book. Visual Event When working with events in Javascript, it is often easy to lose track of what events are subscribed where. This is particularly true if you are using a large number of events, which is typical in a modern interface employing progressive enhancement. Javascript libraries also add another degree of complexity to listeners from a technical point of view, while from a developers point of view they of course can make life much easier! But when things go wrong it can be difficult to trace down why this might be.

PageSlide: a jQuery plugin which slides a webpage over to reveal an additional interaction pane Advertisement a jQuery plugin which slides a webpage over to reveal an additional interaction pane by Scott Robbin Download PageSlide Now If you've ever used the mobile version of Facebook, or Path,then you've probably seen something akin to PageSlide in action. Clicking on a button or link slides the page over to reveal a hidden pane,one that usually contains secondary navigation, a form, or additional information.

Crontab Code Generator About Crontab Code Generator JSL Crontab Generator is a GUI application that can be used to create new crontab entries easily. Cron is a automation tool for Linux systems... Cron is the name of program that enables unix users to execute commands or scripts (groups of commands) automatically at a specified time/date. It is normally used for sys admin commands, like makewhatis, which builds a search database for the man -k command, or for running a backup script, but can be used for anything.

Making a Custom Facebook Wall with jQuery Templates Martin Angelov In this tutorial, we are going to create our own version of Facebook’s wall. We will be using Facebook’s Graph API with jQuery, and the template plugin. The jQuery.tmpl plugin will allow us to define templates within our page, and convert the posts we’ve obtained from the API into a real HTML page. You can use today’s example to display a feed of the latest posts on your FB page or profile on your website. Before we begin, lets say a few words about the Facebook API.

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