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By chco : Today, 07:58 AM

If you want to highlight missing or incorrectly entered information in a form then the following excerpt below from Javascript Cookbook will help.For the fields that need to be validated, as...

By kbnotes : Today, 06:52 AM

Today we continue our serialization of excerpts from the forthcoming eBook, Managing and Implementing Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Projects (Microsoft Press) by Geoff Evelyn. from Chapter 3 Create ...

By chco : Yesterday, 07:12 PM

You want to overlay the web page in order to display a message, or provide an expanded photo. The following excerpt from the O'Reilly publication Javascript Cookbook should be able to he...

By Doron Katz : Yesterday, 07:10 PM

Gist is a really nice free (for open source) site for sharing your code snippets, for when you want your friends (or even via blog sites, such as posterous and wordpress) to look at your code snippets...

By Doron Katz : Yesterday, 06:25 PM

FlexPMD is one of those open-source projects in the thriving community that is Flex, that I find to be quite useful, especially for the enterprise world. Essentially, this tool, which could either be ...

By Doron Katz : Yesterday, 03:08 PM

Working in Objective-C, unlike on the desktop, memory resources can be quite scarce on your favorite mobile platform. which makes it very important to not only guess but actually understand how to man...

By chco : Yesterday, 12:47 PM

If you want to modify one or more CSS properties for an element then perhaps this excerpt from Javascript Cookbook can be of use. If you're only modifying a single property, you can chan...

By Tid : Yesterday, 07:39 AM

This page decribes the ways in which you can load O’Reilly ebooks onto your iPad. First, we’ll look at how to load and read ePubs and PDFs from O’Reilly ebook bundles. Then, we’ll cover how to...

By chco : Yesterday, 08:16 AM

This excerpt from Javascript Cookbook will help you avoid the pitfall of duplicate form submissions. Potential harm could occur if a user submits the same form several times. So naturally yo...

By chco : Yesterday, 06:05 AM

Supposing you want to perform an action based on which radio button is clicked. The following excerpt from Javascript Cookbook can help point you in the right direction. Attach an oncli...

By chco : 23 July 2010 - 12:31 PM

The following is a section from Javascript Cookbook. It is an excerpt that can help if you want to serve up an appropriately sized image based on the available screen width.Use the Screen ob...

By joshclark : 23 July 2010 - 11:48 AM

The following is an excerpt from the O'Reilly publication Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps. It gives some useful tips and things to keep in mind when designing your own iPhone app. Thumbs ar...

By chco : 22 July 2010 - 06:24 PM

This excerpt from Javascript Cookbook shows you how to run a function after your web page has loaded.Capture the load event via the onload event handler on the window: window....

By mayhem : 22 July 2010 - 03:54 PM

(Note: This answer is actually covering the OSCON session with a similar title) In the afternoon I attended Bradley Kuhn and Karen Sandler's Bare Essentials of Legal Issues for Developers sessio...

By mayhem : 22 July 2010 - 03:30 PM

(Note: This answer is actually covering the OSCON session by the same title) Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman were back to OSCON this year with their yearly dose of open source project wisd...

By chco : 22 July 2010 - 02:31 PM

Supposing you want to search an array for a specific value and get the array element index if found. The following excerpt from Javascript Cookbook can be of help. Use the new (ECMAScript 5)...