Short URL is commonly used today for several reasons: avoid url garbling, take smallest space especially for long url which need to be posted at limited space format eg: twitter, also often used to manipulate user for specific purposes eg: hiding orginal url for phising and ads/affiliation links.
There are many websites that provide shortening url services, tinyurl, bit.ly, hex.io are some of them, and as addition to my simple twitter, plurk and facebook api implementation, i have created a PHP script to create short url on the fly, currently support: tinyURL, bit.ly, is.gd, tr.im and hex.io, but you can easily add other providers.
I had signup with plurk a year ago but haven’t “plurking” since i use twitter a lot, and for me both of them were created for same purpose, microblogging, sharing what you’re up to in few sentences and follow what your friends up to. Today i had re-theming my personal blog and use free seven [...]
Thomas Fuchs has announced the alpha release of scripty2, the successor of well known, powerful and flexible javascript library script.aculo.us. scripty2 is designed to help you write your own delicious visual effects & user interfaces.
Check out the demo to see the possibilities scripty2 can do, however as it is still in alpha version which means [...]
80+ social network icons which consists of 40+ 16 pixel x 16 pixel icons and 40+ 32 pixel by 32 pixel icons all in 32-bit PNG format by komodomedia.
jQuery validation engine, yet another nice form validation plugin for jquery javascript framework, comes with language localization supported and many predefined validation rules:
optional: Special: Only validate when the field is not empty
required: Field is required
length[0,100] : Between x and x characters allowed
minCheckbox[7] : Set the maximum checkbox autorized for a group
confirm[fieldID] : Match the other [...]
JS.Class is a library designed to facilitate object-oriented development in JavaScript. It implements Ruby’s core object, module and class system and some of its metaprogramming facilities, giving you a powerful base to build well-structured OOP.
The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit provides tools for creating Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web.
Features:
Multiple Data Representations,
Treemaps, Radial Layouts, HyperTrees/Graphs, SpaceTree-like Layouts, and more…
Major Browsers Support,
IE6+, Firefox2+, Safari3+, Opera9.5+
Open Source,
Licensed under the BSD License
Library Agnostic,
You may use the JIT with your favorite DOM manipulation framework
Extensible,
All visualization classes are mutable, so you can easily add/override any method [...]
Matt has announced the new release of wordpress 2.8 – Baker, with over 790 bugs fixed, and over 180 new features, changes, upgrades, and improvements.
The Major Improvements:
Wordpress style and scripting has changed which makes the new wordpress 2.8 is way faster to use.
Enabled browse the entire theme directory and install a theme with one click
CodePress [...]
Once i have performance issue in a website project i am working at, and i have wasted hours of my time to fix it up both in the server-side and client-side, for future checklist i searched on web and found great list of best practices to speed up our web page load at yahoo developer [...]
Awsome free icons at smashingmagazine available for download, 2 different set of high quality icons in PNG format with different sizes and downlaodable along with PSD & AI (adobe illustrator format) source for free, allow you to make any modifications to the icons to fit your needs.
Short URL is commonly used today for several reasons: avoid url garbling, take smallest space especially for long url which need to be posted at limited space format eg: twitter, also often used to manipulate user for specific purposes eg: hiding orginal url for phising and ads/affiliation links.
There are many websites that provide shortening url [...]
I had signup with plurk a year ago but haven’t “plurking” since i use twitter a lot, and for me both of them were created for same purpose, microblogging, sharing what you’re up to in few sentences and follow what your friends up to. Today i had re-theming my personal blog and use free seven [...]
jQuery chat module enables you to seamlessly integrate Gmail/Facebook style chat into your existing website.
Simple implementation of regular expression in Classic ASP script to create link from text (autolink), this is useful when you need to turn a bunch of text to be a clickable link when it is in a valid url format. Uses Regexp replace method.
Classic ASP class to shortenize URL via TinyURL, bit.ly, is.gd service. Here you will learn also how to use microsoft XMLHTTP object, access remote page via Classic ASP script.
