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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Google Font API : Fonts Free-defined to Beautify Your Web Apps!

If you are fed up with those old font families like Tahoma, Verdana, Serif and all that stuff, then there is a good news for you. Google is again there to beautify your web application with stylish font-families. The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers.

7 Most Useful Regular Expression Snippets

Regular Expressions can make the life of a programmer very easier. With Regular Expressions, validations just melt down to a single line of code in cases where you are ready to write a clumsy code extending around 50 lines. Here I am presenting a list of 7 most useful Regular Expression snippets to help you.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Simple Password Strength Meter with jQuery

People generally do not realise the power of regular expressions. If utilised at right places, regular expressions can be very helpful. In this post I will show you how to use regular expressions in JavaScript to measure the password strength. Client side password meter can be very helpful for interactive web applications. Lets take a look at it.



Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Simplest Table Sorter with jQuery

Table sorting can be done in two ways: using AJAX call or using simple client side javascript. The first method lacks performance as every time sorting is done, it makes a hit on server and returns the sorted resultset. So it is not recommended in most of the situations. The second method(that I would always recommend) is the intelligent one. It performs the sorting on client side without making any request to the server. So it is fast as well performance oriented.