Tag Archives: Javascript

HTML5 Canvas Map Clickaround Overlay Tutorial

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After some time in the (PHP) server world, it’s time to dive back into some client (Javascript and HTML) work, in this client/server world of web applications. Today we revisit the “overlay” theme of blog postings, as the web application … Continue reading →

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Yahoo YQL JSON Thesaurus Gettext Translation Tutorial

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Recently we talked about PHP methods to facilitate (language) internationalization via the “gettext” Human Language and Character Encoding Support module with the PHP Gettext Internationalization Primer Tutorial. Yesterday’s Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Thesaurus Tutorial as shown below, is a … Continue reading →

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Yahoo YQL JSON Thesaurus and Translation Tutorial

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Language teachers will sometimes resort to an immersion method, in the classroom, where the only language allowed to be spoken is the language being learnt, often the second language for the student who is being taught. ESL teachers face this … Continue reading →

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HTML/Javascript Colour Name Translation into RGB Tutorial

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Sometimes you know a colour by a name, and perhaps that name is recognised as an RGB type of colour. Today we write some HTML and Javascript code, which, admittedly, does not work for all the web browsers (notably (not) … Continue reading →

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Ajax Auto-completion Internationalization Tutorial

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Yesterday’s tutorial (called PHP Gettext Internationalization Primer Tutorial) reignited something I’ve been curious about for ages … and knew it was out there … the notion of linking “country codes” to “language codes” and coming up with more informed thoughts … Continue reading →

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PHP GD and Image Functions Primer Tutorial

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The PHP GD library is great for image drawing. The huge advantage with having this “talent” in PHP is that PHP is a serverside language capable of “talking” to your web server, and save files there, so you can download … Continue reading →

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Javascript jQuery Filter by Type Tutorial

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Today’s tutorial builds on yesterday’s Javascript jQuery Traversing Primer Tutorial as shown below … Javascript brings great things to the client side of web applications. And within this Javascript world a wonderful library of functionality is jQuery. The jQuery library … Continue reading →

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HTML/Javascript Homonyms Game Tutorial

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ESL (or “English as a Second or Foreign Language”) is a term for the study of English as a Second Language, and is of particular relevance to immigrants to English speaking countries from non-English speaking backgrounds. One of the most … Continue reading →

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