Creating an App from Scratch Source Files and Giveaway Winne

Chris and I have packaged up the source code and PSD files for our Colored Lists web app and put them up on a splash page that includes navigation to the whole series.

Creating a Web App from Scratch Homepage

Also, we selected the five random winners for the book giveaway: congratulations to Bryan, gemmes, Gaston, An, and Mike Henderson. They'll be receiving a free copy of PHP for Absolute Beginners. If you didn't win a copy, you can still save on the ebook with the discount code PHPXBRZQXSIKG (good through 12/31/2009).

Next week we'll add a Part 9 to the series that will go over some of the bug fixes and security patches that were pointed out.

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Win a Copy of PHP for Absolute Beginners!

For anyone who might be interested in getting their hands on a copy of PHP for Absolute Beginners, there's a giveaway going on over at Brenelz Web Development.

Three copies are available, so head over to the site and get contest details.

And I know I've been neglecting my blog. However, I'm working on an eight-part series with Chris Coyier right now that should kick off very soon, which covers the development of a PHP/AJAX application from concept to completion. Sorry for the delay, but this series should make up for it.

A big thank you to anyone who has already purchased my book! If you've read it and have a minute, I (and my publishers) would really appreciate you taking a moment to review it on Amazon. Thank you again!
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ITT #4: Plugin Giveaway - FlickrScrollr

UPDATE: I've posted a new entry explaining FlickrScrollr. Please refer to that article for better implementation instructions, as well as a breakdown of how the code works.

In an effort to squeak in this week's Instant Tip Tuesday before midnight, I'm going to give away a PHP+jQuery plugin to create an animated Flickr module on your site. I call it FlickrScrollr.

View the Demo | Download the Files

What Is FlickrScrollr?

FlickrScrollr is a combination of PHP5, jQuery, and CSS. It utilizes PHP's SimpleXML extension to parse a user's Flickr RSS feed, then uses jQuery to add animation to the generated display of thumbnails, finally topping off the fun with Leandro Vieira Pinho's jQuery Lightbox plugin.

How Do I Use FlickrScrollr?

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