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There has been always one troubling issue regarding web forms and user interaction: when the user double clicks the submit button. Detecting and preventing it or disabling the button is an expensive operation in terms of computing. Fortunately, jQuery has a neat solution. As usual.

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Tags: javascript

Although the upcoming WordPress 3.0 will support different post types to discriminate content in a proper way, creating new custom post types will require some coding on the theme. However, things will get easier with the Custom Post Type UI plugin for WordPress, that provides us with a graphic user interface to create not only custom post types but custom taxonomies as well.

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Chile awaits all graphic designers at SUDALA 2010, a graphic design congress at Santiago de Chile, with speakers like brazilian graphic artist Nando Costa, spanish graphic designer Laura Alejo, argentinian graphic designer Pablo Alfieri and chilean typographer Francisco Gálvez.

One of the fundamental principles of programming is encapsulation and reuse. These two techniques allow us to write code once and use it many times in different proyects or situations. jQuery plugins are a cool way to implement these principles on our web development project.

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Tags: plugin, tutorials

Since last week, a myriad of sites have been incorporating the “Like” button on their sites. WordPress self-hosted blogs are not the exception and there are a huge amount of Facebook Like buttons on the WordPress Extend plugin repository. But why bloating up your WordPress installation adding another plugin when we can just add a couple of lines and get our button? Save options queries and save loading time with the following tutorial.

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In the following lecture by Chris Coyier, he gives a beautiful, and funny (which is great), introduction to jQuery and explaining how to benefit from including it in our workflow with HTML and CSS. Enjoy!

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Tony Ariawan is a freelance digital artist and graphic designer based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He has worked for clients from around the globe and his artwork has been featured recently on Digital Arts magazine.
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Looking for a file uploading solution to integrate on a WordPress admin I stumbled upon the incredible jQuery file upload plugin Uploadify. It’s a complete solution and by all means easy to implement with a large amount of options.

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Tags: javascript, plugin

WordPress 3.0 will separately identify the Drop-ins that you add to your installation. WordPress Drop-ins are custom PHP files related to several WordPress core files such as advanced-cache.php or object-cache.php that you can load on WP-Content to override the core file with new functionality.

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There are quite a bunch of frameworks for WordPress. Hybrid, Thematic and Carrington to name the most well known. Most of them could be used right away as themes, but the fact of the inclusion of many new hooks and filters makes them suitable for re-utilization of the theme. The Elastic theme was born like a WordPress framework but recently its author started calling it a theme engine. Why? read on.
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Tags: wordpress themes