Posts Tagged ‘front-end’
There are SO MANY different types of lightbox scripts in the wild, and while most of them are absolutely fantastic (shadowbox being one of my favorites) most of them are very limited in the control that they give you over the style, function and code. To make things worse, most of these lightbox scripts are also 5k or bigger, which is 5k more than you need sometimes. If you’re like me, and you do a lot of customization or want to tweak your code to be as fast as possible, then you’ll want this simple little jquery lightbox plugin. Style your lightbox exactly how you’d like and then simple invoke the modal() function and you’ll be able to trigger the lightbox.
I’ve made a nice little FBJS Slider that I use quite often for animation within facebook. I hope that little snippets and code like this will help other developers make more interested and appealing Facebook applications. If you want to hire or request help with fbjs, fbml, or facebook development in general, you can do [...]

I’ve only recently started developing Facebook Apps and being a strong front-end developer I was confident that I would be able to pickup FBJS quickly. My confidence what short-lived however, once i discovered that Facebook had a very restricting framework and cache system that would make JS programming something quite a bit less desirable than awesome frameworks like jQuery.
As a developer, I’m always looking for ways to improve my coding practices and efficiency. In the programming world, I work almost completely with frameworks such as Zend and CodeIgnitor using MVC at it’s fullest. On the front-end, I’ve learned to use Blueprint CSS combined with semantic markup to standardize my layouts. But now, I’ve [...]