Free Stock Photography

That’s right, free stock photos, and they don’t suck! Discovered this via one of my rss subs (sorry, I don’t remember who you are), and it seems to have lots of good stock. Check out FreeRange:
www.freerangestock.com

markItUp! Universal markup editor

markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library. It allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented.
markItUp! Site

The 960 Grid System

Cool concept for web design.  Basically, a bunch of tools (from paper to psd templates, to css frameworks) that allow you to rapidly develop a site based on the commonly accepted width of 960px.  Check it out:
http://960.gs/

JavaScript & MySQL With Jaxer

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could work with MySQL within your JavaScript code? Think about it, you wouldn’t have to spend extra time writing extra server-side code for connecting to, querying, and parsing results, you could just write a little bit more code in your JavaScript and be done with it. Of course, we wouldn’t want any of this SQL exposed to the end-user, as that would be a major security issue, but what if that problem was solved as well? You might also raise the point that you’d still need the ability to prepare your SQL statements that take dynamic input to prevent SQL injection attacks, but if that weren’t an issue, wouldn’t that be awesome as well?

Seriously, take a look over an existing AJAX app you may have written. You’ve probably got a bunch of different functions for making AJAX calls to PHP scripts (or something similar), which process the input, and deal with the database, then return either parsed results, or results to be parsed by JavaScript. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could consolidate all that stuff into some smaller, simpler JavaScript code? Fewer files, less overhead… sounds good to me.

That’s one of the great things about Jaxer. If you’ve done any reading, you probably know that Jaxer works with SQLite out of the box, and you might be aware that it’s also able to work with MySQL, but most of the people I’ve talked to have stopped there. Aside from the above objections (which I’ll smash shortly ), I’ve also heard that they simply don’t want to learn another complex API. Well, the time for silly excuses is over, and I’m going to show you how easy all this stuff can be. I would suggest that you first set up Jaxer with XAMPP so you can follow along, but if you want to use the stand-alone Jaxer and Apache, you’ll be just fine. Let’s get our hands dirty…

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Jaxer 0.9.5 Released!

As promised, here’s my notification that it’s out.  All sorts of new goodness for you including the autoload tag and MySQL support on the Mac
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Release Notes