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PHP snippets to interact with Twitter

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 24 Comments

Twitter is an awesome tool for website owners, and you should definitely integrate it into your website if you want to attract more traffic and new visitors. Today, let’s take a look at some PHP snippets to interact with Twitter.

PHP: Fast and easy SQL queries using ezSQL

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 32 Comments

Nowadays, most websites and web applications are database driven, which means that you, the developer, have to query the database to get the requested information. Let’s take a look at a very useful tool to handle SQL queries easily and efficiently on small to medium projects.

How to create a kick-ass CSS3 progress bar

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 37 Comments

As I’ve shown you in some of my recent posts, the new features introduced in CSS3 allows developers to create stunning visual effects. Today, let’s create a fancy progress bar using CSS3 and jQuery, but no Flash or even images.

Best practices for modern Javascript development

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 41 Comments

Javascript is definitely a very popular language on the web, and every web developer has to deal with it someday. For this article I have compiled a non-exhaustive list of good practices that will help you to become a better javascript developer.

10 useful new WordPress hacks

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 36 Comments

WordPress is the platform of choice for most bloggers, and WordPress hacks is one of the most popular topics on CatsWhoCode. This is why I’ve decided to compile 10 new and extremely useful hack for WordPress. Enjoy!

Top 10 CSS3 buttons tutorials

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 23 Comments

Despite being an emerging technique still unsupported by some browsers, CSS3 gained a huge attention from designers and web developers in the last 6 months. In fact, CSS3 brings to life countless new possibilities to make even better websites. In this article, I have compiled a list of the best 10+ tutorials to make extremely gorgeous buttons using CSS3.

Enhance your web forms with new HTML5 features

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 31 Comments

HTML5 introduces numerous new options to create more functional web forms. In this article, I’ll show you exciting new HTML5 features to improve your forms and make them more functional and user-friendly.

How to easily create charts using jQuery and HTML5

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 20 Comments

For years, Flash was the only solution to display a dynamic chart on a website. But thanks to modern techniques, the dying Flash isn’t needed anymore. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how easy it is to transform a basic HTML table into a profesionnal looking chart using visualize.js, a very useful jQuery plugin.

8 examples of stunning CSS3 text effects

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 25 Comments

Among many other things, CSS3 has lots of nice effects to enhance the typography of your website. In this article, I have compiled 8 extremely promising typography techniques done using CSS3.