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Toggle Table Rows with jQuery, no plug-in required

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ShareLast week I encountered a situation with one of our web apps that required a toggle-able table row. Essentially the existing table was populated with information from four different tables. In addition to several joins there were some nested queries, and it was killing the MySQL server.
So, I decided to pull the information [...]

Basic AJAX with PHP and jQuery

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ShareI gave a live tutorial/demo at work today for room full of folks. I’ve posted the source code and powerpoint below. The title is pretty self explanatory…just a very simple demonstration of AJAX techniques using jQuery JavaScript and PHP on the server side in a very crude Twitter-like mini-posting app.
Basic AJAX with PHP [...]

Add cool, Apple-like reflections to your images

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ShareCow’s Reflection.js allows you to add reflections to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.
It works in all the major browsers – Internet Explorer 5.5+, Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Safari, Google Chrome and Opera 9+. On older browsers, it’ll degrade and your visitors won’t notice a thing. Best of all, [...]