“The Lightbox Clones Matrix” and other links…
The Lightbox Clones Matrix is a “comparison of various scripts that display images and other objects in somehow cool CSS popups”… Over a dozen of these clones are based on jQuery. The number of choices is paralyzing!
“JSON tools for your web browser”
Ryan Paul: “Ars looks at two Firefox extensions for web developers that make it easier to read JSON data.” I’m OK with whatever Firebug has right about now. When the occaision calls for it, I should know where to look.
“Blueprint: A CSS Framework”
“Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing.”
Plumb
“This is Plumb, a tool for composing web layouts for use with the Blueprint CSS framework.”
“20 Useful PHP + jQuery Components & Tuts for Everyday Project”
Noura Yehia: “…7. From PHP to XML to jQuery and Ajax …This tutorial will focus on getting data from a database using PHP, converting that to an XML document, and reading that XML in through jQuery via Ajax calls. Seems complex, but is in fact, very easy. …10. HOWTO: PHP and jQuery upload progress bar …With the controllable jQuery Progress Bar, writing a form upload progress bar seems like a piece of cake now. Hypothetically, all we need is to create the bar, poll for the progress of the file upload, drive the new progress bar value (in percentage) and set it using PHP. …12. A fancy Apple.com-style search suggestion …Learn how to recreate the effect from Apple website by creating a fancy apple.com-style search suggestion. This example makes use of several techniques: MySQL (for the database), HTML/CSS for styling, PHP for retrieving the data and jQuery for the AJAX request.” The other tutorials look great but I’m just picking the ones I would need sooner rather than later.