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Really Useful Tutorials You Should Have Read in July 2010

This update covers really useful tutorials, tips and techniques that you should have read in July 2010. Featured publications include: A List Apart, Nettuts+, Dr Dobbs, Codrops, 1stwebdesigner, CSS-Tricks, AEXT, Six Revisions, Digging into WordPress, Position Absolute, Activetuts+, Kriesi, Carrer Web Log, User Agent Man and Dev Opera.

Featured authors include: Jeff Starr, Bobby van der Sluis, Christian Heilmann, Chris Coyier, Zoltan, Nikko Bautista, Mike More, Mike Taulty, Mary Lou, Christian Budschedl, Irina Borozan, Jason Lengstorf, Cedric Dugas, Vladimir Carrer, Peter Lubbers, Brian Albers, Joshua Johnson, Andy Blackwell, Alexander Dawson, Rachel Andrew, Karthik Viswanathan, Lee Munroe, Cristian-Ionut Colceriu and Kat Neville.

So which tutorials you found most useful. Also feel free to recommend any good article that we may have missed.

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 TubePlayer: jQuery Plugin For YouTube Player API

TubePlayer is a jQuery plugin that implements YouTube Player API, and allows you to create your own controls and components for YouTube movies. In addition to jQuery, it also requires SWFObject for cross browser support.

Creating custom controls for YouTube videos using TubePlayer is very easy; all you need to do is initialize the YouTube Player using tubeplayer() method, and then hook tubeplayer’s events to any elements you want to use as triggers.

Features

  • Browser Support Tested: Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 5, Opera 10, Safari 5, IE6+
  • Controls: play, pause, stop, seek, volume control, quality control and data retrieval
  • Callback Functions: onPlayerUnstarted, onPlayerEnded, onPlayerPlaying, onPlayerPaused, onPlayerBuffering and onPlayerCued

Developed by Nirvana Tikku; TubePlayer is dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses. You can find further information, demos & download on TubePlayer Website.

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 jQueryRotate: Cross Browser Image Rotation

jQueryRotate is a lightweight, cross browser jQuery plugin that allows you to rotate images by specifying any angle. It uses HTML5 canvas element and VML for Internet Explorer. You cna use it to rotate user generated images and animate them using your own functions.

jQueryRotate is very easy to use in your own projects. All you need is to select an image element and call rotate or rotateAnimation function. To simply rotate an image, you can directly specify an angle or pass parameters in this function. The rotateAnimation function enables you to add rotating animation programmatically.

Developed by Pawel Witkowski; jQueryRotate is available for download under MIT License. You can find further information, demos & download on jQueryRotate Website.

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 Pines Notify jQuery Plugin

Pines Notify is jQuery notification plugin. It is very easy to implement, flexible, and provides numerous options for all kinds of notifications. It uses the jQuery UI CSS library for styling, which means it is fully and easily themeable.

Since Pines Notify uses jQuery UI, you can change look and feel of notification windows using ThemeRoller. You can do further customization, by modifying widget-specific classes referenced within the jquery.pnotify.default.css stylesheet.

Features

  • Timed hiding with visual effects
  • Sticky (no automatic hiding) notices
  • Optional hide button
  • Supports dynamically updating text, title, icon, type…
  • Stacks allow notice sets to stack independently
  • Control stack direction and push to top or bottom
  • Supports HTML (including forms) in title and text
  • Variable opacity
  • Supports Pines icons/jQuery UI icons/any CSS based icons
  • Supports custom classes for individual notice styling
  • Standard and custom effects
  • Optional drop shadows
  • Callbacks for various events, which can cancel events
  • History viewer allows user to review previous notices
  • XHTML 1.0 Strict compliance
  • ThemeRoller Ready

Developed by Hunter Perrin; Pines Notify is available for download under GNU Affero GPL License. You can find further information, demos & download on Pines Notify Website.

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 Aloha: The HTML5 Editor

Aloha Editor is an easy to use WYSIWYG HTML editor, featuring fast editing, floating menu, and support for HTML5 ContentEditable. It provides WYSIWYG editor to any website content instantaneously, enabling content editors to see the changes the moment they type.

Alloha is very easy to integrate in your website, wiki, blog or any other application. It produces clean xHTML5 code once integrated into your application. Another noteworthy features is that it allows you to edit content directly in content accordions, sliders, tickers, captions or descriptions of images in slideshows.

Features

  • No reload. No popup. No need to preview
  • Floating menu – lightweight context menu
  • Insert the table with the size you want with just one click
  • Editing and formatting text without Markup
  • Faster editing and loading time
  • WYSIWYG for dynamic content
  • Support HTML5 Contenteditable

Developed by Gentics Software GmbH; Aloha Editor is available for download under AGPLv3 License. You can find further information, demos & download on Aloha Editor Website.

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 CSS3 Properties in IE With PIE

PIE (Progressive Internet Explorer) is an IE attached behavior that allows IE 6-8 to recognize and display a number of CSS3 properties. It currently has full or partial support for the following CSS3 features: border-radius, box-shadow, border-image, multiple background images, and linear-gradient as background image.

Using PIE in your projects is really simple and straight forward. All you need to do is upload htc file on the server and add the behavior in CSS rule of the element: behavior: url(path/to/PIE.htc);. You need to make sure that path is relative to the HTML file being viewed, not the CSS file it is called from.

Developed by Jason Johnston; PIE (Progressive Internet Explorer) is Available for download under Apache License Version 2.0. You can find further information, demos & download on PIE (Progressive Internet Explorer) Website.

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 CLEditor: WYSIWYG HTML Editor jQuery Plugin

CLEditor is a open source jQuery plugin which provides a lightweight, full featured, cross browser, WYSIWYG HTML editor which can be easily added into any web site. It is lightweight plugin that consumes less than 8K of total bandwidth. It is also cross browsers and has been tested with IE 6.0+, FF 1.5+, Safari 4+, Chrome 5+ and Opera 10+.

To use CLEditor, you simply need to pass id of the textarea that will hold the HTML content; plugin will replace it with WYSIWYG editor. In addition to the standard text formatting features, CLEditor contains rich drop downs for font name, size, style, text color and highlight color.

Features

  • Lightweight and very easy to implement
  • Can specify height, width, fonts, colors, controls and styles using configuration options
  • Customize the tool bar styles and controls
  • Supports methods for interaction via JavaScript: focus(), htmlMode(), resize(), select(), selectedText(), updateFrame(), updateTextArea()

Developed by Chris Landowski; CLEditor is dual licensed under the MIT or GPL License. You can find further information, demos & download on CLEditor Website.

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