NailThumb is a plugin for resizing thumbnails with just a single line of code.
Additionally, NailThumb can also add a title to the thumbnail; another notable feature is image cropping. Events, proportions, and even animations are available, too.
Although this isn’t a bandwidth-effective way of doing things — the full-size image is used to generate the thumbnail, — NailThumb still seems to be a great fit for portfolios etc.
Ian George has published an awesome 3D tag cloud, also available as a jQuery plugin.
What’s great about the plugin is that you can get creative with it.
One thing that you could create with the tag sphere plugin is a “blogroll”, or maybe even a navigation bar.
The markup is dead simple, and the source isn’t too hard to grasp, especially since it’s well-commented. It also works on touch devices.
ResponsiveSlides is a jQuery plugin for creating a responsive slider.
The slider works with IE6+, and keeps the css max-width property even in browsers that don’t natively support it.
It’s fully responsive and only requires jQuery (at least v1.4). Multiple instances are supported, and the markup is dead straight unordered lists. The only requirement is that you keep the images at a fixed size.
9lessons.info have published a simple and effective tutorial about creating a file upload progress bar using jQuery.
The JavaScript is concise, but the server, of course, requires a version of PHP — and in this case, not one lower than 5.4.
The programmer also uses PHP’s APC library; jQuery is used to monitor the state of the file every few seconds.
jsoup is a Java library for parsing HTML5 data.
It provides a convenient API for extracting and manipulating HTML5 data.
jsoup has a number of uses: parsing user comments; extract HTML data; beautify HTML output; etc.
It’s pertinent to note that jsoup can also parse invalid code, or, as the devs put it: “jsoup is designed to deal with all varieties of HTML found in the wild”.
GreenDroid is a library for making Android UI development easier.
GreenDroid’s main advantages over other similar Android libraries is its concise, powerful set of UI-management features.
The library supports Android 1.6. It might support Android 1.5, but it’s less likely to do so.
GreenDroid is an awe-inspiring solution for making consistent UI’s for Android devices.
11 April, 2012
By Lauris Veips
