9lessons Programming Blog

The New 9lessons Labs Application.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:15:40 PST

Introducing the new 9lessons labs powered by Wall Script 4.0 and collaboration of 9lessons blog tutorials. I did lots of changes in existing code and functionality. Added new features like conversations and photo sharing and improved Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr Oauth connectivity. 9lessons labs hosted at Amazon EC2 and image uploads at Amazon S3 bucket and object caching system with Memcached server.

Facebook Timeline Design using JQuery and CSS.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:20:49 PST

I know what my readers are expecting from 9lessons blog, after long time I'm going to discuss about Jquery usage. Facebook timeline design makes big revolution in social networking world and it gives new feel to the user profile pages. In this post I want to explain how simple I had implemented this design with Jquery and CSS. Try this demo with modern browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Safari (IE is dead).

CSS3 Logo Design

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:51:08 PST

Back then we used graphic design softwares like photoshop to design logos and icons. But now we can design almost anything using the power of CSS3. Designing logos and icons using Cascading Style Sheets will make your site load faster than using images. Today i am going discuss how to design CSS3 logo using basic properties.

Jquery AnchorCloud Expanding Link Plugin.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:28:54 PST

Introducing a new jQuery AnchorCloud Link Identifier plugin, This helps make better and enrich link expanding system for your web content pages. This plugin developed using yahoo query language(YQL) for extracting website content like page title and description. First version supports we included Youtube and Vimeo, next release we are planning to include some more popular video and photo services.

Amazon EC2 Multi Domain Setup and Technology Behind 9lessons

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:26:37 PST

Recent days I received lots for requests from my readers that asked to me few questions about 9lessons.info hosting and CMS technology. This post explains you how do I setup my domains + sub domains with Blogger and Amazon EC2 hosting. How to setup multi domains setup in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud using htaccess file.

jQuery Mobile Framework Tutorial.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:57:46 PST

Jquery mobile framework helps you to develop rich web based mobile applications. In this tutorial, we explained basic things such as theme selection, library usage, design pages, page links and Transition animations. Its very lightweight code, simple and flexible, it supports all popular smartphone and table platforms. Use it and enrich your mobile web applications.

Text Effects using CSS3

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:55:53 PST

This post is explains how to create Photoshop style 3D text effects using CSS3 text-shadow and @font-face property. These properties are supported in all modern browsers like Chrome, Safari and Firefox, except Internet Explorer is dead. Try following examples and enrich your web pages, use better color combinations for pretty results

PHP Image and Text Watermark

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:03:40 PST

We received many tutorial requests from 9lessons readers that asked how to generate watermark image using PHP. In this post Arun Kumar Sekar coded two functions such as watermark_text() and watermark_image() to generate text and images watermarks on images. Integrate this to your web project upload image system and produce copyright photos.

Login with Google Plus OAuth.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:03:32 PST

Few days back Google Plus has released OAuth application programming interface, right now they providing only user activities and circle data. I had implemented a simple login system called User authentication with Google Plus data. Try this it’s almost like twitter login system, I hope in future Google + going to release some more options.

Jquery Notification Plugin.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:56:20 PST

Introducing a new jQuery notification plugin, it helps better and enrich message notification system for your web application. This plugin contains four types of notification systems such as Success, Error, Warning and Information with rich user interface. Very easy to implement just follow the steps.

How to Create a Jquery Plugin

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:03:17 PST

This post is explains how easy you can built a jQuery plugin, we made a simple plugin called LinkColor. It makes your website anchor links so colourful and pretty beautiful, Just few line of code and very simple to use. Follow the eight steps and learn how to create your own jquery plugin. Take a look the live demo. Thanks!

Facebook Wall Script 4.0 Release

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:03:10 PST

Introducing the Wall Script 4.0 commercial edition, a rich wall updating script and it’s a collaboration of 9lessons blog tutorials and some Jquery plugins. We added and improved many new features like instant photo uploads , webcam snap, more button, collapsed comments, expanding urls and delete update animations. Don't miss the video demo. Thanks!

Working with Facebook SDK Permissions.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:02:41 PST

Facebook is the new Web planet, nowadays it’s a part of human life. Facebook offering user data access via Graph API. This is very helpful for start-up web projects to quickly collecting people data. This post explains you how to request Facebook login, permissions,reading user data and updating Wall using Facebook SDK. Tutorial contains multiple demos try all these Thanks!.

Getting Started with Adobe Flex

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:42:15 PDT

At work place we have been reviewing few bolt-on applicationsfor PeoplSoft ERP that can be used for employee on-boarding. All those tools were great and they had one thing in common, i.e. they all were developed in Adobe Flex. In recent years the usage of Flex has increased tremendously and there are good reasons for that. We will go through them.

Google Plus Style Drag and Drop adding Groups

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:03:14 PDT

Are you looking for Google plus style drag and drop adding friends in groups or circle. Google plus circle implementation so cool, same way I have tried similar user groups adding application with drag and drop effect using jquery and php. I hope it’s useful for your social media web projects.

Update - Login with Facebook and Twitter

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:43:19 PDT

Long days back we had posted an article Login with Facebook and Twitter. It’s now most visited article on 9lessons. I received many comments that asked to me to update the Facebook login system to get user email. So that I had modified existing script to getting Facebook email address automatically and storing Twitter OAuth tokens, take a quick look at new live demo.

Amazon EC2 Cloud Installation.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:18:24 PDT

Last few days I have been working with Amazon Web Services micro instance free tier, this post I want to explain how to setup instance, elastic IP configuration, cloud instant accessing from local computer using Putty and FTP connection. It’s awesome real cloud computing, you have complete control on server, using this we can implement new web features like node.js. Soon I’m hosting all of my demos into EC2.

Submit Form without Refreshing Page with Jquery

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:07:15 PDT

This post helps you to submit your form without refreshing page. In this tutorial I will show you how simple it is to do using jQuery form plugin just five lines of JavaScript code, no need to post data string values via ajax. Explained collaboration with validate plugin for implementing form field validations.

Smarty Template Engine using PHP

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:15:58 PDT

This post is about basic template engine management using Smarty with PHP. Smarty engine is an awesome tool, it saves your design development time. My friend Anil Panigrahi made a simple tutorial that how to implement Smarty for you PHP applications to follow basic standards and steps.

Working with Foreign Languages using MySQL and PHP.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:12:40 PDT

I received many tutorial requests from my readers that asked to me how to display and store foreign/regional language UTF-8 data into MySQL database using PHP code. This post explains you to solve Unicode data problems, just there steps you should follow take a quick look at this post.

Ajax Image Upload without Refreshing Page using Jquery.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 23:18:11 PDT

Are you looking for ajax file/image upload and preview without refreshing page using Jquery. I had implemented this ajax form submitting using jquery.form plugin and used Arun Shekar's image cropping PHP code for uploading images. Just five lines of JavaScript code, Using this you can upload files, image and videos.

HTML5 Snake Game

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:43:04 PDT

Last some days I have been working with HTML5 canvas, sure it’s going to change the web future. I had implemented a snake game with HTML5 canvas + Javascript. Just take a look this live demo, it’s simple and light weight code you can use this script in 404 error pages and site down maintenance.

Customize Facebook Fan Page using FBML.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:10:35 PDT

Have you created Facebook fan page for your website or product? if not take a quick look at this post how to customize Facebook fan page with static FMBL. Fan pages helps your product will reach many more people. It’s very simple and it supports HTML tags, try this and market your product.

Wall Database Design

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:13:28 PDT

Writing a update on friend wall, this is the most important part in social networking sites. Famous networking sites are like Facebook and Orkut but people calling different like wall and scrap. Now Twitter testing this feature. I have enable this option in labs.9lessons.info. This post explains you how to design database and table relationships for posting a update on friend wall..

Get Started Developing for BlackBerry.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:07:05 PDT

Are you looking for BlackBerry application development tutorial. Take a quick look at this post my friend want to explain how to download and install BlackBerry standard development kit with eclipse IDE. It's very simple just follow these steps and you can create Hello World program.