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DiggDugg: Getting the Gist of it.

Matt Vickers — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:21:59 +0000

I’m starting to force myself to write more classes. It’s something I’ve always been interested in, but could never pull myself away from the linear design patterns that I’d become so comfortable with.

I’ve written a class based on some basic functions of Digg.com that I’m planning on using for a tutorial. I wouldn’t be a very good teacher if I released a shoddy class out to the masses.

This is where you come in. I would like anyone and everyone to take this class and tear it apart. Call me an idiot for doing something a certain way, praise me for a chunk of code or make changes in silence. I want this to be a learning experience for everyone.

You can fork it, download it or copy it from my gist account or use the big button below!

You can either contact me on gist, leave a comment or send me an email, either way lets try and make this a kick ass class!

DigDug Icon is copyright Gedeon Maheux & The IconFactory

DIGG, DIGG IT, DUGG, DIGG THIS, Digg graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and other service names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.

The Ultimate Guide for Learning Mootools

Matt Vickers — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:45:55 +0000

Getting started with any type of framework can be an intimidating experience. I had worked with scriptaculous and prototype to begin with, but decided to move over to Mootools because it’s a more light weight framework.

After the initial move to Mootools I was frustrated with the lack of community support and ended up moving back to prototype immediately. After I was more comfortable with working with frameworks I moved back to Mootools and haven’t looked back.

With this tutorial, I’m going to try to make sure that you have a great beginning to the Mootools framework. I’m going to walk you through getting everything downloaded and setup as well as some of the basic elements of mootools. After that I’m going to spend some time walking you through how to use the Mootools Docs, which is a site that you’ll be visiting very often during the use of Mootools.

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Fame and Fortune, maybe.

Matt Vickers — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:05:45 +0000

Hey everyone,

Apparently some people like my tutorials, go figure. If you have a few minutes of free time head on over to NetTuts+ and give me your vote.

Submitting a Form with Mootools

While you are there check out some of the 100′s of great tutorials they have to offer!

Thanks everyone.

Injection with Mootools – Part 3: Saving

Matt Vickers — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:56:23 +0000

We’ve got our list adding items and now everything can be sorted.

Lets wrap up the tutorial and add the ability to save the list!

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Injection with Mootools is a three part screencast on screenr.

View Part 1 | View Part 2

Injection with Mootools – Part 2: Sorting

Matt Vickers — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:54:40 +0000

Alright, so we’ve created our list and can add items to it.

What if you want the apples to come before the oranges? You’re stuck, right?! Wrong.

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Injection with Mootools is a three part screencast on screenr.

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Injection with Mootools – Part 1: Creating Elements

Matt Vickers — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:51:57 +0000

So you have a grocery list that you need to add items to. The only thing at your disposal is Mootools. I think we can work with this.

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Injection with Mootools is a three part screencast on screenr.

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Submitting a form with Mootools and PHP

Matt Vickers — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:52:31 +0000

Submitting a from can sometimes be a daunting task especially with the whole “page refreshing” web 1.0 way of doing things.

In this screencast we are going to cover submitting a form with mootools without having the page refresh.

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Checking Username Availability with Mootools and Request.JSON

Matt Vickers — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:05:14 +0000

Your site is getting 1000 new signups a day. Congrats!

Let’s spice up your signup form with real-time username checking with Mootools and Request.JSON

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Bare Bones: Getting started with Mootools in 4 minutes

Matt Vickers — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:48:20 +0000

Getting started with Mootools can be pretty confusing if you’ve never worked with a framework before.

In this screencast I’m going to give you the basics of getting Mootools included in your script and some basic features.

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