As I confessed some time ago, I am a lazy person, although sometimes I even surprise myself by being completely the opposite. Anyway, if I would be actively involved into Web development, I am sure that finding the right plugins and frameworks to work with would be one of my top priorities. Sure, the reason is that having ready-to-roll pieces of code around would allow me to get the job done faster… and continue to enjoy my laziness, of course! [...]

As far as most people know, Rialto is the most notorious bridge in Venice. If you missed seeing it so far, go ahead and do it, it’s surely an objective a serious tourist must see, but if you’re a programmer… there’s a different Rialto waiting for you, and it’s even much easier to reach!

In our case, Rialto comes from “Rich Internet Application Toolkit,” being a cross-browser, AJAX-based JavaScript widgets library that can be easily encapsulated in .NET, Python, PHP, [...]

Since I confessed my laziness already, today I will take one more step forward and tell you that I hate cleaning up. Don’t get me wrong – I love having everything in order, only that I can’t stand moving things around, wiping the dust, and so on. A direct consequence of this fact is that I only go through my stuff once in a while, because I am very good at keeping things shiny and in place, at least once [...]

Considering the fact that we’re in 2009, and not 1995, delivering pictures on your website in a nice outfit is one of those things you shouldn’t miss. After all, with tools like ColorBox around, adding frames or slideshows becomes a real pleasure, so why not go for it?

The idea behind ColorBox is very simple – you have a 9KB worth of JavaScript code jQuery plugin that’s highly customizable and very easy to use, and you allow it to help you [...]

Managing files on a remote server is a real pleasure to me, and that happens only because I NEVER use the rudimentary file manager available inside cPanel, or any other kind of Web-based file management solution. I am really happy with FileZilla or the file managers built into Total Commander or Unreal Commander, so I never cared much about Web-based file managers, until I found the treasure we’re going to talk about today…

… a treasure simply called AjaXplorer! While the [...]

Sometimes, I wonder how it is possible for programs/scripts who didn’t get updated in the last few years to be used by a lot of people who just don’t care about that. Even more, some of these programs came to a sudden stop somewhere along the way, before reaching at least version 1.0. Today, I just got an answer to these questions…

… and its name is xMDB Viewer, described by Attila Szabo, the man behind it, as “an open source [...]

A few days ago, I installed some chat script on a site of mine. I guess I told you about my quest for such a thing before actually doing it, but I can’t say that I am completely happy with the thing I got, and since there’s always something better than what you have… here’s another one!

To be honest, I won’t play with Php Free Chat anytime soon, but it’s good to have it in my “scripts to try” list, [...]

When I think about hotel reservation forms, I suppose such things can’t be available as free source code, since we’re not talking about the next door bakery here – hotels should have enough money to put into some expensive website, right? Well… I guess the Internet almost managed to prove me wrong once again, since AJAX Hotel Reservation Form is exactly what I wasn’t exactly hoping to see – an excellent piece of (almost) free source code for those working [...]

These days, most sites try to embrace Web 2.0, or at least allow their users to do more than a few years ago, and uploading files is one of these actions. After all, everyone’s bandwidth is at least a few times higher than it was in 2005, for example, and if you are a member of some site… you’ll end up uploading something to it, sooner or later!

Now, if we look at this from the developer’s point of view, there [...]