” Hey guys. My name is Addy and I'm a passionate Web Designer. On my site you can find lots of useful tutorials on JavaScript and User Interface design.
I'm a passionate 24 year old Irish Web Designer & Developer and (currently) a Project Manager who loves creating exciting new user interfaces and writing about topics that can help other web designers out there at the moment. Although I've been approached by Facebook, Microsoft and Google over the years, I enjoy working in smaller companies. If you're interested in speaking to me about contract work, please leave me a note on the site and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.
If you've come here (or any dev blog) hoping to learn a few tips and tricks, you're already well on your way to becoming a better developer.Expanding your knowledge through reading books, blogs and trial-and-error coding are some great steps to improving your knowledge. If you would like to read more on this topic, see my article called '10 Professional Tips For Designers and Developers' here.
Have you ever needed to paginate your data (blog posts, links, images or anything else) using jQuery but were a little unsure of just how to achieve the effect? In this post, I’m going to show you just how easy it can be. Let’s decide on a good example to demonstrate pagination. How about a simple commenting system?. Awesome..now lets begin.
Professional development is one of the key elements to improving your skills as a designer or developer. In this article I’m going to provide you some of the popular tips I’ve previously shared on Behance, Scribd, DeviantArt and my own blog, that’ll help you be the best. If you would like to download or print the article, you can get the 1-page PDF here or favourite it on Scribd here.
Thanks to Amazon Associates, this month I have a new widget to display my book recommendations in..and boy have I got some good books for you guys to check out.
The first (and a title I’ve been looking forward to for quite some time) is John Resig’s Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja. For anyone unfamiliar with the author, Resig is the author of that great framework many of us use everyday – jQuery. In this, his second book, he goes into much detail about advanced uses of JavaScript, Best practices when it comes to unit testing and a whole lot more that you won’t find anywhere else. Although the book hasn’t been officially released yet, you can buy an early eBook/Paperback set from Manning Publications right now (as I did) – you won’t regret it!.
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Like me, if you’ve ever wanted to use a Web Service from a site that doesn’t have that many code examples or a solid API, chances are you may have considered using cURL – a great extension to PHP that allows you to authenticate with websites just like a normal user would. The benefits of doing this are that you’re able to gain access to rich data sources like contact lists, email, statuses and a whole lot more. In this post I’m going to provide you with 20 code examples that’ll help you do some pretty cool things using everything from Bit.ly to Las.fm. Sites covered are Yahoo.com, Last.fm, Amazon, WordPress, Facebook, TwitPic, PayPal, Bit.ly, Twitter, GMail, MySpace, is.gd and IMDB.
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