Puffing Smoke Effect in jQuery

Since the launch of the new looks, I’ve been getting some requests on how to make the puffing smoke effect that you can see in the header.

Thinking it might be a funny effect, I’d like to take this opportunity to discuss this effect.

Puffing Smoke Effect in jQuery

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Caching external data in PHP

Caching data. If you are a developer you must have heard about it somewhere. Is it really that important? There is only one thing I can say to that: yes!
There are a lot of reasons why you should start caching data that has been calculated. The most common reason is to keep the owner of the data happy, saving him/her bandwidth and server capacity.

In this article I will be telling you how to cache data given from an external service, but can also be used to save local results.

Caching external data in PHP

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New design for Gaya Design

Yesterday I finally launched my new layout for the world to see! There are even new things to be done on the site now.

After about a month of hard work it’s done, ready to be shown in public.

New design for Gaya Design

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Now in The Woods: Simulate Gravity with jQuery

I wrote a post a while ago about gravity in jQuery. Thinking it was a rather funny effect, I thought I’d submit this article to a famous weblog to see if they would accept it. And what do you know: it’s now on ThemeForest’s blog In The Woods!

The article will show you how to fake gravity using jQuery, creating real life simulation of objects falling.

Read the post here:
http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/simulate-gravity-with-jquery/

Now in The Woods: Simulate Gravity with jQuery