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Writing your first Greasemonkey script – adding menus to Facebook’s top menu

This post will show you how to write a basic Greasemonkey script that will add two more menu items to Facebook’s friends top menu as shown below.

These 2 menu items are :

“Recently Updated” – show all your friends with recent updates
“Status Updates” – show the latest status updates of your friends

About Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is a Firefox [...]

WP To Top – a Wordpress plugin that takes you to the top

About WP To Top
WP To Top is a Wordpress plugin that adds a “Back to top” link in your blog without modifying your template files. This is useful especially if you have long posts or long pages. You will have a nice “Back to top” or whatever-text-you-want link floating at the bottom right/left of your [...]

10 useful PHP PEAR packages

MDB2
PEAR MDB2 is a merge of the PEAR DB and Metabase php database abstraction layers.
It provides a common API for all supported RDBMS. The main difference to most
other DB abstraction packages is that MDB2 goes much further to ensure
portability. MDB2 provides most of its many features optionally that
can be used to construct portable SQL statements:

Object-Oriented [...]

twitree.com – see on which leaves the birds are…

I am happy to announce the launch of twitree.com. It’s a twitter application which allows a twitterer to view his followers in a tree-like navigation, which can be expanded.

twitree makes extensive use of the YUI library. The following components were used :

grids css – for the layout
yahoo dom event – for DOM and event handling
connection [...]

Alternate colors to table rows with javascript (YUI)

This article will show you how to add alternate colors to table rows without any server side development or hard coding your scripts, thus providing good readability for your users and great flexibility for you. We will use the YUI library for that.

Bubble menu javascript or playing with YUI’s event delegation

Image courtesy of jobee59’s photostream
Event delegation refers to the use of a single event listener on a parent object to listen for events happening on its children (or deeper descendants). Event delegation allows developers to be sparse in their application of event listeners while still reacting to events as they happen on highly specific targets. [...]

9 tips to validate your XHTML code

What is validation ?
According to the W3c, Validation is a process of checking your documents against a formal Standard, such as those published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for HTML and XML-derived Web document types, or by the WapForum for WML, etc. It serves a similar purpose to spell checking and proofreading [...]

8 practical tips to make your web pages faster

Yahoo’s Exceptional Performance team has compiled a list of 34 best practices to have faster web pages. In this post I’ll show you 8 tips which helped me to get a B grade in YSlow! for web pages that I develop. Currently YSlow’s web page analysis is based on 13 identified basic rules that affect [...]

10 code snippets for PHP developers

I’ve compiled a small list of some useful code snippets which might help you when writing your PHP scripts…