Yahoo! Query Language (YQL)

The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter, and join data across Web services. With YQL, apps run faster with fewer lines of code and a smaller network footprint. Yahoo! and other websites across the Internet make much of their structured data available to developers, ...

10 jQuery 1.3 Tips and Tricks for everyday use

Some useful jQuery Tips and Tricks for your everyday use. Removing and Hiding Dom Elements, Browser Detection, Toggling, Handling Select Lists and more.

Paging with LINQ in ASP.NET MVC

Here's a really neat and simple way to add pagination to your LINQ results in ASP.NET MVC. The simple class can be also implemented in non ASP.NET MVC projects. Note: You can change the source parameter to be List or just add a method overload. PaginatedList Class using System; using System.Linq; using System.Collections.Generic; namespace MyApp.Helpers { ...

Random CSS themes give your Social Space a Design Twist

Many sites are using this technique to give a fresh interface on every page the user visits, giving the illusion of a fast passed user experience. Sites like MTV, Hulu, MP3.com and many others use different techniques to change the sites layout either by changing the colors, backgrounds or just ...

JS detecting event support in browsers

As you may know there is no easy way of detecting which elements supports which events across browsers. Kangax from Perfection Kills has come up with a very clever way of detecting them. JavaScript var isEventSupported = (function(){ var TAGNAMES = { ...

Debouncing Javascript Methods

What is debouncing anyways? Debouncing is any kind of hardware device or software that ensures that only a single signal will be acted upon for a single opening or closing of a contact. Imagine you have a form with a few elements that a user may access thru the tab ...