Custom Getters and Setters with MooTools

• Debuted February 1, 2012
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Working with Dojo all day and scoping out MooTools at night gives me a unique perspective; I get to constantly evaluate the two frameworks and mentally move functionalities from framework to framework. One small but handy feature within the Dojo Toolkit's Dijit UI Framework is its set/get system. Dijit allows developers to add custom methods tied into simple get and set methods to allow manipulation properties into and on the way out of a class. I took a few moments to implement this system in MooTools.

• Upload Photos to Flickr with PHP

  • January 31, 2012
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  I have a bit of an obsession with uploading photos to different services thanks to Instagram. Instagram's iPhone app allows me to take photos and quickly filter them; once photo tinkering is complete, I can upload the photo to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. This process made me wonder what it would take to upload photos to Flickr using PHP. This post details how you can authenticate and upload photos to Flickr using PHP with phpFlickr.

• Image Data URIs with PHP

  • January 30, 2012
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  If you troll page markup like me, you've no doubt seen the use of data URI's within image src attributes. Instead of providing a traditional address to the image, the image file data is base64-encoded and stuffed within the src attribute. Doing so saves a network request for each image, and if you're the paranoid type, can prevent exposure of directory paths. Since creating data URIs is incredibly easy, let me show you how to do it with PHP.

• Images, max-width, and Mobile

  • January 24, 2012
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  Many web developers prefer to keep as much control over the applications, especially when it comes down to how the application displays on a mobile device. I'll often see developers prevent zooming in mobile browsers, allowing them to manage display size:

• Amazing 3D Animation with three.js

  • January 23, 2012
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  The hottest topic for client-side developers seems to be animation. Whether it be from CSS transformations, keyframe animations, or animations managed with JavaScript APIs, it seems like each day we come across another demo that shows us how can we've come outside of Flash. The latest shocker comes from the three.js project. The creators of three.js explains the project best: