Changing Text Color or Background Color with the DataTables jQuery Plugin

Sometimes you would like to change the text color in a row (or cell) based on text already in the table. Luckily the dataTables plugin allows you to do this using their fnDrawCallback callback function. I am sure that there is a better way to this, but I couldn’t find an easy solution so here’s [...]

jQuery FullCalendar Example using jQueryUI Themes

First I need to say what a great plugin this is! If you are like me, you first wanted to create a custom calendar that you can have total control over, but then when you look at all the work put into this one, there is no need! Check out the jQuery Full Calendar Plugin [...]

Add Google Talk(chat) and Voice to your Website

How To Add a Google Chat Badge to your Website I’ve been searching for a way to add chat to my website, but I am sick of having to run separate programs (Zoho tab or Digsby). I have my GMail open in a Firefox 4 tab all day long, as I’m sure most people do. [...]

Dynamic CSS – Changing Style.css to Style.php

Reduce HTTP Requests using Data URLs One of the main complaints from Google’s Page Speed or Yahoo’s YSlow is about the number of HTTP requests needing to be reduced. I read an article the other day about using Data URL’s to save on http requests by Perishable Press and thought I should implement this into [...]

jQuery Arrays | Create, Add To, Remove From and Compare

Creating Arrays in jQuery At the very basic level you can create an empty array like this I like to use empty arrays because I will fill them programmatically with HTML that is available on the page. Let’s say you have created a list from a database that looks like this Filling an Empty Array [...]

Firefox Profile Manager – Using Profiles in Firefox

How to Create a User Profile in Firefox Being a Web Developer I have to test my web applications in all browsers, which means I normally install them all on my DEV machine. Problem is that I have a ton of extensions running in Firefox. We all need to have Firebug running as well as [...]

MD5 Encryption with jQuery

What is MD5? MD5 encryption is a one-way hashing algorithm. Two important properties of the MD5 algorithm are that it is impossible to revert back an encrypted output to the initial, plain-text input, and that any given input always maps to the same encrypted value. This ensures that the passwords stored on the server cannot [...]

jQuery E-mail Validation without a Plugin

Validating Email using jQuery More and more I am finding out that I use jQuery predominately for my projects. Now I keep a local repository of code snippets, but I as I have said in the past I am trying to move all my local code to the “cloud”. I am storing all my code [...]

DataTables.Net – How To Get ColVis and TableTools Plugins to Work

DataTables.Net I have been spending a lot of time working on some web applications that deal with lots of data. Displaying data in tables has always been the normal way to do things, but dealing with that data can add a lot of time to your job. Organizing, sorting, or adding and removing columns can [...]

Easily Convert YouTube Videos into MP3s for Free

Video to MP3 Sometimes you just want to listen to your YouTube videos, right? Video2mp3.net Video2mp3 is a free YouTube, MyVideo, Clipfish, Sevenload, Dailymotion, MySpace to MP3 Converter and allows you to convert and download a video to MP3 file online. This service is fast, free, and requires no signup. All you need is a [...]