Here’s an interesting code snippet I’ve found handy in past projects. Great for highlighting specific information within an application or web page. To start with lets have a brief explanation as to what we’re going to be doing. We have …
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I wrote a post a while back on coding an iPhone style switch using jQuery. I’ve now put together a simple tutorial demonstrating how simple it is to build a switch that triggers two radio buttons in a field set. …
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I thought it would be a nice little project to write a tutorial on how to build a basic but powerful weather application for either mobile devices or the desktop. The application takes a set of Google weather API feeds …
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Due to popular demand here’s a re-written version of the tutorial I wrote over a year ago on how to show and hide content using jQuery. After I first published the post I’ve had a lot of requests as to …
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I had a project recently that required the user to select their country from a drop down list and store the data in a database. It was such a long process setting up the PHP switch statement that I thought …
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When you have a fully dynamic site it’s useful to show the user where they are by breaking down the URL structure so they can navigate backwards through the site. For example this url: http://papermashup.com/categories/jquery/ shows that ‘jquery’ is part …
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Quite often when developing big web apps you may need to use mod_rewrite to generate SEO friendly URLs from a string of text, Very similar to the way Word press generates URLs for blog posts. The Code Below is the …
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