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There are hundreds of compelling reasons why Linux is better than all the rival operating systems. Here are just 20 1. Linux is free No matter how many computers you install it on, the cost of Linux remains the same: zero. In these days of multi-computer households, this can be a massive saving, especially when you consider the cost of all the programs you have to add to a standard Windows installation. 2. Software repositories Having all the software you need in one place saves you having to trawl the web to find the program you're missing. It also means the software has been independently checked and digitally signed by the distro's developers, making it almost impossible to pick up a root-kitted version. The same developers also keep track of updates and add them to the repository, providing you with automatic updates without every program needing a 'phone home' feature. 3. Live CDs Live CDs are one of the best innovations of the Linux world. To be a...

Table is the most difficult object to be styled, due to its browser compatibility and markup. Most of the designers and developers will use div to replace table because it is much more easier to style div than table . But, we still need table in our daily applications, one of the best example is comparison table. This article will share 15 useful jQuery table plugins for you to display, sort, filter and manipulate your data in table. DataTables DataTables is very powerful jQuery plugin which offer a lot of features. For example, you can have on-the-fly filtering, ajax auto-loading of data, pagination, sorting columns, highlight sorted columns, extensive plug-in support, themeable by CSS or jQuery UI ThemeRoller and also a complete documentation. uiTableFilter uiTableFilter is a jQuery plugin for filtering table rows. The author shows a detailed example on how to implement the filter function for your table together with the plugin. Scrollable HTML Table Scrol...

AJAX has gotten more and more popular over the years, and has allowed web applications to act more and more like desktop applications. AJAX can provide a lot of additional functionality that could not be accomplished any other way. What Is AJAX? How Does It Work? AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is used for allowing the client side of an application to communitcate with the server side of the application. Before AJAX, there was no way for the client side of a web application to communicate directly with the server. Instead, you would have to use page loads. With AJAX, the client and server can communicate freely with one another. Here is how the usual AJAX script goes: Some action triggers the event, like the user clicking a button. The AJAX call fires, and sends a request to a server-side script, using XML The server-side script (PHP, ASP, or whatever) takes the input from JavaScript, can access the database if it needs to, and processes the data. Using...

What is a PHP Framework? PHP is the world’s most popular scripting language for many different reasons – flexibility, ease-of-use, among others – but often times coding in PHP, or any language for that matter, can get rather monotonous and repetitive. That’s where a PHP framework can help. PHP frameworks streamline the the development of web applications written in PHP by providing a basic structure for which to build the web applications. In other words, PHP frameworks help to promote rapid application development (RAD), which saves you time, helps build more stable applications, and reduces the amount of repetitive coding for developers. Frameworks can also help beginners to build more stable apps by ensuring proper database interaction and coding on the presentation layer. This allows you to spend more time creating the actual web application, instead of spending time writing repetitive code. The general idea behind the workings of a PHP framework is referred to as Mo...

It’s really amazing to see what one can create using jQuery. Developers just don’t stop making incredibly interactive web applications every now and then. This post just demonstrates excellent examples of some of the best jQuery plugins out there. jQuery Sliders 1) Slider Gallery - A similar effect used to showcase the products on the Apple web site. This ‘product slider’ is similar to a straight forward gallery, except that there is a slider to navigate the items, i.e. the bit the user controls to view the items. Simple stuff. Live Demo: Here 2) Accessible slider - Illustrations and code samples showing how to make a slider UI control accessible to those who aren’t running JavaScript or CSS. Live Demo: Here jQuery Manipulating Images 3) crop, labelOver and pluck -Crop-Gives your visitors the power to crop any image on the fly using JavaScript only. Also there are 2 other plugins: LabelOver and Pluck. Live Demo Of Crop: Here Live Demo of LabelOver: Here ...