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Really Useful Tutorials You Should Have Read in June 2010

This update covers really useful tutorials, tips and techniques that you should have read in June 2010. Featured publications include: Justin Tadlock, Nettuts+, David Walsh Blog, Smashing Magazine, Tutorialzine, A List Apart, Perishable Press, Carsonified, Marcofolio, Nicolas Gallagher, Codrops, Onextrapixel, Digging into WordPress, Six Revisions, Line25, 1stWebDesigner, Alex Marandon, and Voosh Themes.

Featured authors include: Justin Tadlock, David Walsh, Martin Angelov, Nicolas Gallagher, Jeff Starr, Marco Kuiper, Faruk Ates, Chris Coyier, Chris Spooner, Richard Fink, Dan Wellman, Rafael Soto, Lorna Jane Mitchell, Divyang Patel, John Cox, Mary Lou, Irina Borozan, Jonathan Phillips, Paras Chopra, Alex Marandon, Darren, and Chris Creed.

• How to Build a Distance Finder with Google Maps API
  By Irina Borozan, June 29th, 2010
  Site: 1stwebdesigner
• Super Cool CSS Flip Effect with Webkit Animation
  By Chris Spooner, June 28th, 2010
  Site: Line25
• WordPress Shortcode for Includes
  By Chris Coyier, June 28th, 2010
  Site: Digging into WordPress
• Beautiful Photo Stack Gallery with jQuery and CSS3
  By Mary Lou, June 27th, 2010
  Site: Codrops
• The Ultimate Guide To A/B Testing
  By Paras Chopra, June 24th, 2010
  Site: Smashing Magazine
• Taking Advantage of HTML5 and CSS3 with Modernizr
  By Faruk Ateş, June 22nd, 2010
  Site: Perishable Press
• Unlimited Scroll Using the Twitter API
  By Marco Kuiper, June 22nd, 2010
  Site: Marcofolio
• How to Build a Web Widget (Using jQuery)
  By Alex Marandon, June 22nd, 2010
  Site: Alex Marandon
• An Introduction to Cookies
  By Tom Clement, June 21st, 2010
  Site: Nettuts+
• How to Micro-Optimize Your CSS
  By Jeff Starr, June 21st, 2010
  Site: Perishable Press
• Latest Post Blogroll Slider with jQuery and PHP
  By Mary Lou , June 17th, 2010
  Site: Codrops
• Apple-like Retina Effect With jQuery
  By Martin Angelov, June 16th, 2010
  Site: Tutorialzine
• HTML5 Microdata: Welcome to the Machine
  By John Cox, June 14th, 2010
  Site: Nettuts+
• Getting Started with Tumblr & Custom Theme Design
  By Chris Spooner, June 14th, 2010
  Site: Line25
• How to Create Your Own BuddyPress Theme
  By Darren, June 14th, 2010
  Site: 1stwebdesigner
• Multiple Backgrounds and Borders with CSS 2.1
  By Nicolas Gallagher, June 10th, 2010
  Site: Nicolas Gallagher
• How to Authenticate Users With Facebook Connect
  By Rafael Soto, June 10th, 2010
  Site: Nettuts+
• A Refresher on Custom Taxonomies
  By Justin Tadlock, June 10th, 2010
  Site: Justin Tadlock
• Making Your First Google Chrome Extension
  By Martin Angelov, June 9th, 2010
  Site: Tutorialzine
• MySQL Has Functions
  By Jonathan Phillips, June 8th, 2010
  Site: Onextrapixel
• Web Fonts at the Crossing
  By Richard Fink, June 8th, 2010
  Site: A List Apart
• Animated Wicked CSS3 3D Bar Chart
  By Marco Kuiper, June 7th, 2010
  Site: Marcofolio
• 9 Magic Methods for PHP
  By Lorna Jane Mitchell, June 7th, 2010
  Site: Carsonified
• Create a Professional Portfolio Using WordPress 3.0 Custom Post Types
  By Chris Creed, June 7th, 2010
  Site: Voosh Themes
• How to Create a Drop-down Nav Menu with HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery
  By Dan Wellman, June 7th, 2010
  Site: Nettuts+
• A Guide to Google Font API
  By Divyang Patel, June 1st, 2010
  Site: Six Revisions
• Goodbye, Headaches. Hello, Menus!
  By Justin Tadlock, June 1st, 2010
  Site: Justin Tadlock
• Using jQuery or MooTools For Drag, Drop, Sort, Save
  By David Walsh, June 1st, 2010
  Site: David Walsh Blog

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Simple AJAX Commenting System

This time, we are making a Simple AJAX Commenting System. It will feature a gravatar integration and demonstrate how to achieve effective communication between jQuery and PHP/MySQL with the help of JSON.

Simple AJAX Commenting System

How to change upload file size on a Windows localhost

In a localhost Apache + PHP it is easy to change the uploaded file size to something larger than the default 16M.

An example below show you how to change the upload file size to say 50M.

* Locate the PHP.ini file, for example in c:/xampp/Apache/bin/php.ini and open it with any text editor like WordPad by right-clicking -> Open With -> then choose WordPad.


How to change upload file size on a Windows localhost