http://www.gen-x-design.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:23:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, it's been a long time coming, but I've finally managed to get the next release of my PHP Thumbnailer library completed! I'm also happy to announce that the project finally has its own website: http://phpthumb.gxdlabs.com. I've put a lot of work into bringing the class up to ... http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/php-thumb-30-released/ Mozilla announced a new feature for add-ons today: collections. It also looks like they're getting the ball rolling with several useful collections, such as the Web Developer Collection. It includes all sorts of goodness like Firebug, ySlow, GreaseMonkey, ColorZilla, and many more. Well worth a quick visit. FireFox ... http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/web-developer-collection-packaged-up-firefox-extensions/ David Walsh has put together a really handy plugin for MooTools called ScrollSpy. What impressed me the most was the automatic display of a "Return to Top" link on your page once you've scrolled beyond a certain boundary. There are also a handful of other neat demos worth ... http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/mootools-scrollspy-surprising-useful-js-plugin/ It's been said a thousand times I'm sure, but picking the right JavaScript framework is a pain. There are all sorts of biased arguments for one vs. another, but there's really nothing subjective out there... until now. Arguably, jQuery is probably the most popular JS framework out in ... http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/jquery-vs-mootools/ ORM is certainly a very popular concept these days, but I haven't really come across any PHP implementations that I found worth-while. Sure, big frameworks like CakePHP may have ORM functionality, but I'm not a fan of huge frameworks. I've also dabbled in my own implementations, but never ... http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/doctrine-php-object-relational-mapper/ APIs have become a very commonplace part of many popular web sites and services... especially REST APIs. I've already discussed how you can roll your own REST API for your PHP apps, but I've also received countless requests to go over how to actually make RESTful requests. That's ... http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/making-restful-requests-in-php/ http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/create-a-rest-api-with-php/ I recently created a screencast for Aptana's PHP Editor, and thought I would share it. I'm also posting this since we recently relaunched our screencast site, http://tv.aptana.com. It's actually really cool as its running entirely on Aptana Jaxer, and built with the soon-to-be released Active JS framework. I'll soon ... http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/working-with-the-aptana-php-editor/ Ajaxload.info used to be the site of choice when it came to generating preloader images... unfortunately, I think it's been bested. Preloaders.net allows you to generate not only the standard set of preloaders, but even 3D ones! You also get much more control (size, speed, etc.) and the ... http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/preloadersnet-fantastic-preload-image-generator/ I know this doesn't really fit into the general theme of this site, but I thought this was really cool and wanted to share it anyway. Not much else to say, so enjoy! Blueberry Garden (sneak peak trailer) from Erik Svedäng on Vimeo. http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/beautiful-indie-game-trailer/