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NoSQL databases: 10 Things you Should Know About Them: 5 pros and 5 cons by Guy Harrison: Five advantages of NoSQL Elastic scaling Big data Goodbye DBAs (see you later?) Economics Flexible data models Five challenges of NoSQL Maturity Support Analytics and business intelligence Administration Expertise A few amendments though: Elastic scaling: part … Post [...]

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a slick email signup form. This form will harness the full power of AJAX, meaning that we will submit data to the server, validate it, and receive a response – all without a single page refresh! Along the way, you should pick up some useful tips related [...]

The xcolor plugin is an easy-to-use jQuery extension to manipulate colors in all imaginable combinations. This plugin implements an extensiv color parser and a featureful set of color-manipulation methods. There is also an animate() extension to smooth CSS colors.Another useful method isReadable() completes the whole, by allowing you to check if a … Post original

NoSQL Guide for Beginners: Alexandre Porcelli has a great post for NoSQL beginners: one of the most frequent question that people use to ask me about nosql is: what is the best nosql tool that enables me start with using my programming language (java, .net, php, python, etc..)? its almost impossible to have a quick [...]

InfiniteGraph Use Case: Modeling Stackoverflow: I didn’t hear much about InfiniteGraph after its 1.0 release, except this post that uses Stackoverflow data as input to demo some features of graph databases: The vertices in the graph are represented as the Users, Questions and Answers above while the edges are represented as the interactions between … [...]

A simple jQuery plugin to get albums and images from Picasa without the need for PHP, Ruby, or any other server side language. Makes it easy to create a simple, dynamic, free, client-side-only image gallery. … Post original

HTML5 Mini Template is a HTML5 structured file who includes only minimum necessary CSS files to get you started with HTML5 development … Post original

There’s nothing like a subtle, slick website widget that effectively uses CSS and JavaScript to enhance the user experience.  Of course widgets like that take many hours to perfect, but it doesn’t take long for that effort to be rewarded with above-average user retention and buzz.  One of the widgets I love is Twitter’s “Follow” [...]

Learn how to incorporate the Facebook SDK into the CodeIgniter framework, using the available functions to create applications. … Post original