Jacob Gube at SixRevisions and Garrick Cheung who is a designer-developer and a member of the official MooTools Community team, has latest released a new book MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide Book published by Packt Publishing. MooTools is one of the most popular and simple-to-use Javascript frameworks on the web. If you’re looking to create dynamic, rich, responsive cross-browser web applications and user-interactive web site applications this beginner’s guide with its easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions is all you need to rapidly get to grips with MooTools. MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide Book is now available as a paperback on Amazon.com. See also another MooTools official reference book: MooTools Essentials: The Official MooTools Reference for JavaScript™ and Ajax Development.
Chapter 1: MooTools and Me
Chapter 2: Writing JavaScript with MooTools
Chapter 3: Selecting DOM Elements
Chapter 4: The Core’s Useful Utility Functions
Chapter 5: Working with Events
Chapter 6: Bringing Web Pages to Life with Animation
Chapter 7: Going 2.0 with Ajax
Chapter 8: Beefing Up MooTools: Using the MooTools More Plugins
Chapter 9: Creating Your Own Plugin
gMap is a lightweight jQuery plugin that helps you easily embed Google Maps into your websites. It’s only 2KB in size and very flexible and highly customizable as well. To implement gMap to display Google Maps on any website, you need to sign up for a Google Maps API key and jQuery library at least in version 1.3. You can custom the gMap’s latitude/longitude, default zoom level, markers, info positions to display as a pop-up, custom marker images, mapping controls on/off, scrollwheel and more. Download the latest version of gMap and include the Google Maps API along with jQuery and gMap in the
section of your website.
Plupload is an advanced file upload handler that allows you to upload files using HTML5 Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or normal forms, providing some unique features like image resizing, displaying upload progress, drag and drop, multiple file uploads, chunked uploads unique filename generation, max-file-size limit and more. Plupload is an open source and powerful multiple files uploader for your Content Management Systems and can be used via the JavaScript API or the ready-to-go jQuery plugin. The developers can also write your own custom code for implementation. Plupload is developed by the team of TinyMCE. You can see the Plupload jQuery queue widget, all runtimes, and custom upload codes examples right here.
jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. Today the jQuery team have just released jQuery version 1.4 to developers to celebrate their 4th birthday. Web designers and developers can now download or learn more about jQuery 1.4. jQuery 1.4 is also available as part of Google Ajax APIs. jQuery 1.4 comes with tons of new features and functions:
- Performance Overhaul of Popular Methods – jQuery developers have rewritten code for most of the earlier functions to provide with significant performance gains;
- East Setter Functions – added new and easy setter functions for all the objects;
- Improvements in Ajax – introduces several significant updates to Ajax and JSON handling.
- http://jquery14.com/
