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Written by Tony Lea - 5 minute read
Do you have a general knowledge of programming and want to learn how to create iPhone, iPad, or mobile games? If you are unfamiliar with Objective-C or Cocoa; you still have many alternatives. There are several great game frameworks available for do...
Written by Tony Lea - 1 minute read
Let's say that we wanted to send an Ajax or jQuery post to a page and we wanted to receive an array of values back. What would be the easiest way, you may ask yourself? Well, the answer is JSON. If you are not familiar with JSON, it is merely a text ...
Written by Tony Lea - 1 minute read
I'm sure if you are a web developer you have probably heard of the word JSON or JSON array. Don't be scared about the word, it's actually very simple, and just because I have to say it... It stands for Javascript Object Notation. Hope that didn't sca...
Written by Tony Lea - 1 minute read
When working on a project of mine, I needed to detect when a user was scrolling the page if they had reached the bottom. I tried looking for a simple solution; however, I could not find one. Well, using jQuery and a little Javascript this can easily ...
Written by Tony Lea - 1 minute read
Have you ever wanted to replace a particular part of a string in SQL and you don't want to go through the hassle of coding the query and using PHP functions to parse and replace that specific part of the string. Well, now you don't have to... There i...
Written by Tony Lea - 1 minute read
There is a very simple way to retrieve your youtube thumbnail images for a specific video. The simplest way is to go to the following URL: http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/#.jpg Of course, you'll need to replace [VIDEO_ID] with your youtube video...
Written by Tony Lea - 1 minute read
Sometimes when using php you may have a string containing a file location. In many cases (most of the time when you are manipulating images) you may want to create a duplicate or modify the filename in someway. In order to do this you will most likel...
Written by Tony Lea - 1 minute read
Using your .htaccess you can do a lot of things, such as making SE Friendly URL's. One more great trick is the ability to redirect your site so that it always points to the www version or without. Let's say that your base URL for your site is linking...
Written by Tony Lea - 2 minute read
.slideUp() .slideDown() Here is a beginner tutorial on using the jQuery slideUp() and slideDown() functions. This article contains the code used to perform the jQuery slide functionality. Watch the video to be shown from beginning to end,...
Written by Tony Lea - 5 minute read
Quite possibly one of the best things to happen to HTML since peanut butter met jelly! jQuery is one of the most popular javascript libraries in the world. There are so many cool and fun interactive features that jQuery brings to the web interface....