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Tools
Posted on June 3, 2008 by Matt Williams
PHP Twitter API Client
I've been having some fun with Twitter lately. Twitter's direct messaging feature is great for automated messaging tasks. With SMS and IM forwarding, I can receive critical updates from a server (or my coffee pot... or whatever) just about anywhere....
Posted on May 22, 2008 by Corey Maass
jQuery Reverse Order plugin
Ever want to reverse the order of a group of DOM elements? Or want to give your user the option?...
Posted on April 2, 2008 by Chris LoSacco
SVN Notifier
If you work with Subversion on a Mac (and you should), and especially if you've got Growl installed, you might be interested in SVN Notifier, the first Apple Dashboard widget to come from the Arc90 lab. Updated 4/21/2008: Patched a...
Posted on March 25, 2008 by Andy Lewisohn
Flex / AS3 Library : RESTService
One of the most lamented issues in the Adobe community has been Flash Player's lack of true HTTP support. In case that issue is unfamiliar to you, here's the rundown: Because the Flash Player VM can run in a variety...
Posted on March 17, 2008 by Andy Lewisohn
CollapsiblePanel
The collapsible panel is a fairly simple container that pops up all over the internet. It's great for hiding, but not losing, areas of the screen that may be unnecessary at a given moment in time. This allows the end-user...
Posted on January 10, 2008 by Chris Dary
JSON Lint
I've been really getting into JSON as a transfer protocol lately. Having been recently muddled in XML, the simplicity of JSON is a welcome respite. Despite its simplicity, I've still seen quite a bit of poorly formed JSON around. And...
Posted on November 28, 2007 by Chris Dary
jQuery MultiSelect
Ever want to put a whole bunch of Select drop downs that can have multiple selections into a tight area, only to have to struggle with layout issues? Or have to put a layered div over over a Select and...
Posted on October 8, 2007 by Andy Lewisohn
Modular
If you've been beating your head against the wall trying to get Cairngorm and Modules to work together, stop now. We've already knocked ourselves senseless, not that we had much sense to begin with, and, flux capacitor like, come up...
Posted on September 12, 2007 by Richard Ziade
Airifier
With the coolness of Adobe's AIR technology permeating the web (and your desktop). We thought we'd help bring it to the masses. Our own Avi Flax (not Flex) got his grubby little hands on the AIR SDK and wired it...
Posted on July 2, 2007 by Joel Nagy
MultiSelect
Ever want to put a whole bunch of Select drop downs that can have multiple selections into a tight area, only to have to struggle with layout issues? Or have to put a layered div over over a Select and...
Posted on June 19, 2007 by Chris Dary
AppCache for PHP5
Speed up your apps and have a convenient application-level scope with AppCache by Chris Dary, the seventh tool from the arc90 lab....
Posted on March 30, 2007 by Andy Lewisohn
ShuffleStack
Tired of using the same components over and over? The ShuffleStack is a new way to display several screens worth of information without gobbling up huge chunks of screen real estate....
Posted on September 11, 2006 by Chris LoSacco
Alternating Rows
Make your tabular data nice and readable with tool number five from the arc90 lab, Alternating Rows. Just add some colors to our JavaScript and -- voila! -- no hassle alternate row coloring....
Posted on August 2, 2006 by Chris LoSacco
External Link
The fourth tool out of the Arc90 lab addresses one of those problems that every web developer has struggled with at some point: opening links in a new browser window. External Link is a script that appends an icon to...
Posted on July 19, 2006 by Chris LoSacco
Image Caption
Wrestling with image and text positioning is no fun. Let Image Caption, the third tool from the Arc90 lab, make all of the hard work turn into cutting and pasting. All it takes is a script and some style to...
Posted on July 11, 2006 by Chris LoSacco
Link Thumbnail
A picture's worth a thousand words, right? So spice up those plain old text links with Link Thumbnail, the second tool from the arc90 lab....
Posted on May 25, 2006 by Richard Ziade
Unobtrusive Sidenotes
Our first tool out of the arc90 lab, Unobtrusive Sidenotes is a simple mix of Javascript and CSS that makes it ridiculously easy to incorporate sidenotes into your web pages or blogs. It even includes a handy set of colors...
