with Imagination: by Dustin Diaz

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A JavaScript, CSS, XHTML web log focusing on usability and accessibility by Dustin Diaz

Twita@talinkahashify your tweets

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Well hello everyone. I had previously tweeted about this a few weeks ago… but sometimes I forget more folks follow this blog than my Twitter.

If any of you use our Twitter API to embed your latest statuses on your website, here is a simple little script that will do a few niceties for you. This includes linkafying, hashtagifying, and of course the most important, atify (aka: “at replies”).

Hit the jump to find out more on how to use it.

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JavaScript Video Tutorial Screencasts

Learn the fundementals of the Yahoo! User Interface utilities and how to add progressive enhancements to your webpages with only applying the basics.
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Learn how to add Ajax to your website using the Yahoo! UI Connection Manager with minimal code and maximum flexibility.
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Learn how to write a client-side Web Service API in JavaScript using Object Oriented methodologies along with a best-practices approach that will allow you to play nice with the other JavaScript kids in your neighborhood.
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Podcasts

Episode 16: A fictional JavaScript tale

This episode was done solo as I tell a fictional tale about five JavaScript kids (among others) that I wrote during a night I wasn’t able to get any sleep. It features a few of the greatest JavaScripters around as the characters including the following:

Episode 15: Venni viddi vicci of Events

Justin Palmer in many ways felt like the brother I never had even though I will claim to have other JavaScript mafia brothers as well.

Aside from that matter, the “Experience Engineer” from Encytemedia (and Prototype enthusiast) and I spoke about the various forms of Events that all encompass JavaScript. And indeed; we came, we saw, and we conquered.

About ./with Imagination

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Hi, my name is Dustin Diaz and I am a User Interface Engineer at Twitter, author of JavaScript Design Patterns, and a photographer This is my website. Welcome!

On this site I write about JavaScript; I have some podcasts; I also have a few screencasts for those of you who are visual learners. All that aside, if you learn something from me: Excellent. I appreciate you dropping by.

If you have any more interest in learning more about what I do, how long I've been doing it, or how to get a hold of me, you can send a @reply to me on Twitter or simply send an email to dustin[at]dustindiaz[dot]com

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