9lessons Programming Blog

Create a RESTful Services API in PHP.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sun, 13 May 2012 22:23:47 PDT

Are you working with multiple devices like iPhone, Android and Web then take a look at this post that explains you how to develop a RESTful API in PHP. Representational state transfer (REST) is a software system for distributing the data to different kind of applications. The web service system produce status code response in JSON or XML format.

Facebook Style Emotions Jquery Plugin

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:52:44 PDT

Introducing a new jQuery emotions plugin, This helps you to convert text symbols to emotion images like how social chat editor works. This plugin developed by ArunKumar Sekar using javascript regular expression match rules. In first version we providing facebook emotion theme, next release we are going to include some more better emotion icons.

Bootstrap Registration Form Tutorial.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:42:10 PDT

This post is a continuation of my previous post Bootstrap tutorial for blog design and already explained about fluid page design. Today let's look at the form HTML elements that comes with Twitter Bootstrap toolkit using these I made a rich registration/sign up form with validation in 10 mins . Bootstrap helps you to produce clean and highly usable applications, it will reduce larger engineering efforts and gives uniform application solutions.

3D Covers Pro: Create Photo Realistic High Resolution 3D eCovers

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:23:50 PDT

Seems movie stars and celebrities aren't the only ones getting facelifts these days. Software, information products, web apps and eBooks are all taking advantage of 3D High Resolution eCover graphics. Instead of the traditional 2D graphics, which are bland and don't stand out, these new 3D graphics use either smart templates or action scripts to both cut the learning curve down, but also produce the best quality representative graphics over and over again.

File Upload Progress Bar with Jquery and PHP.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:32:01 PDT

We received many tutorial requests from 9lessons readers that asked how to create file upload progress bar with PHP and Jquery. In this post Arun Kumar Sekar had developed few lines of code using PHP APC library, it is very simple getting the server file upload process every few second and increasing the bar color using jquery css property. Just take a look at this demo.

Bootstrap Tutorial for Blog Design.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:41:51 PDT

Bootstrap is a toolkit, which is developed by the Twitter team. This actually helps you to develop web applications much faster.Bootstrap contains CSS and Javascript files using which you can enrich your web page with Grids, Layouts, Typography, Tables, Forms, Navigation, Alerts etc,. This avoids cross browser compatibility problem. This time I am aiming to explain how to design a template of the basic fluid blog for different resolutions and devices like iPad and iPhone.
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AJAX Form Pro v2: Create Unlimited Secure Web Forms for Yourself and Your Customers

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:20:38 PDT

When you create your own website, sooner or later you might need to incorporate contact forms in them. Forms are very important as a means for you to collect data or information from your visitors. Whether you would want to have a contact or feedback form, a support form, a customer survey form, an online product order form, an event registration form, an employment application form, a reservation form, a send testimonial form, or any types of form, AJAX Form Pro could really help you with that.

Access Websense Blocked Articles.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:04:26 PST

Are you working at multi national company, not able to access popular technology blogs powered by wordpress and blogspot articles because of websense firewall rules. I'm introducing (reader.9lessons.info) using that you can access websense blocked articles. It's simple concept URL RSS data using api.thequeue.org and sending request and response from Google feed API. Using this you can build flipboard kind of application.

Wall Script 4.0 Update.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:17:43 PDT

OEmbed expand URL service acquired by embed.ly, now it’s paid service so that I’m releasing this expanding URL fix. Right now this function will work with Youtube and Vimeo links. I have been working with few more popular services. For demo check my profile at labs.9lessons labs.9lessons.info/srinivas

Amazon Simple Email Service SMTP using PHP Mailer.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:55:36 PST

I have been working with labs.9lessons application hosted at Amazon Web Services. Few days back I had enabled email notification system using Amazon Simple Email Service SMTP implemented with PHP Mailer class, I hope the following tutorial will help you to enable email notification system for your web projects.

Memcached with PHP.

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:36:46 PST

Memcahced open source distributed memory object caching system it helps you to speeding up the dynamic web applications by reducing database server load. In this post I want to explain how I had implemented Memcached object caching system for demos.9lessons.info. This system is very helpful for high traffic media and blog related websites.

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, 05 Apr 2012 10:37:55 PDT

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.