Posted on Aug 27, 2009

Firefox Extensions Every Developer Should Use

There are a lot of factors that makes Firefox the best browser currently available, but what makes Firefox really stands out is it support for extensions. A Firefox extension is an addon feature to the browser. There are thousands of available addons and in this post I’ll list some of the most used extensions by developers, in fact every developer should be using them.
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Posted on Aug 24, 2009

jQuery Facebook Plugins

Facebook interface is as simple as it gets, and yet many of the elements that define this interface are very powerful and have proven to be very popular, so popular that jQuery developers created plugins to imitate those elements. In this post I’ll introduce you to two jQuery plugins that imitate facebook elements.
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Posted on Aug 10, 2009

How to Create Your First WordPress Plugin

WordPress is a very powerful and popular blogging platform. Once you start using it you will fall in love with it and sooner or later you’d want to create your own plugin to extend its functionality. So if you want to learn how to create your own WordPress plugin then you have come to the right place.

A WordPress plugin is simply one or more PHP files that adhere to certain rules and conventions. All you need to understand and complete this tutorial is a basic understanding of PHP programming.

Before we get started, let me explain what does the plugin we’re going to write will do. It simply displays the most commented 5 posts. Pretty simple and straight forward plugin which makes it an ideal example to explore the concept behind a WordPress plugin. We will call the plugin “WP Most Commented”.

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