NetTuts - JavaScript And AJAX (New Links)

Generating a particle system with javascript
If you’ve ever seen a fireworks effect, created in Flash, I’ll show you how to reproduce the effect using pure javascript in this week’s Premium tutorial! Why let the Flash developers have all the fun?
javascript from Null: Cross-Browser Event Binding
In chapter five of this series, we jumped into the muddy world of event listeners. In that episode, we only got our feet wet; however, today, we’ll take things a step further as we implement a far more efficient solution. Along the way, we’ll learn a plethora of new techniques.

As with every javascript from Null screencast, it’s not essential that you view the previous entries in the series before watching.

Quick Tip: Using the Mustache Template Library
Tutorial Details

Topic: Mustache Template Library
Format: 5 minute screencast
Difficulty: Beginner

The Wonder of jQuery Tools: New Premium Tutorial
They refer to it as the “missing jQuery UI” library. What’s the key to jQuery Tools? They offer everything you’d actually use in a web application, and nothing more. I’ll show you exactly how to use this incredible jQuery library over the course of a 40-minute video tutorial.

The Firefly Effect
Cosmic pictures are used on many websites as a background image. Those pictures are undoubtedly beautiful, but after all they are still static images which provide little liveliness. With jQuery, we can bring a still cosmic image to life by adding some space dust (particles) flying like fireflies.

In this Premium tutorial, we’ll review how to mimic the effect shown here in thirty minutes. We’ll learn a bit of object-oriented javascript techniques as well.

Easily Implement a Live Search Effect
The live search effect is no novelty in desktop apps. In Mac OS X or Windows Vista/7, just type a few letters in a search box, and almost instantly you get the search results on the fly. Having to hit the submit button is becoming old school. This tutorial will show you how to bring this cool effect to the web world with jQuery. The code used in this tutorial is modified based on John Resig’s approach

Create an s3Slider-like jQuery Plugin
In this week’s Plus video tutorial, the creator of the extremely popular s3Slider plugin will show you how to build a similar “slideshow” component using jQuery. What better way to learn how to mimic your favorite plugins than to learn from the creators themselves? This isn’t one you should miss!

Build an RSS Feed Reader with jQuery and jGFeed
This PLUS tutorial and screencast will demonstrate how to use jQuery and the jGFeed plugin to fetch news feeds remotely and write the results into the existing markup. jGFeed is a jQuery plugin that allows you to retrieve ‘any’ RSS feed from ‘any’ host and return a JSON object for easy usage.

How to Build the Trendy New jQuery Sliders
jQuery sliders are becoming more popular day by day; with more free and premium sliders pouring in regularly. Knowing how an advanced slider like this works is becoming a must. In this week’s premium tutorial, we are going to create a full-fledged jQuery slider which supports inline comments. Let’s get started!

The Ultimate Guide for Learning Mootools
Getting started with any type of framework can be an intimidating experience. To help, this week we have an in depth tutorial and long screencast to provide a crash-course for this popular javascript library. With so much focus on jQuery, it’s easy to forget that Mootools is an equally powerful library with a huge following.

Storing Data with JSON
Sometimes, PHP and SQL are a bit heavy for the quick job you want to do, but you’d like to have some persistent data. Today, in this Premium tutorial and screencast, you’ll learn how to create a mini API that will make storing, retrieving, and working with JSON in javascript a breeze!

Writing Modular javascript
When writing an entire web application in javascript, it’s very important to have well-organized code; maintaining a spaghetti-coded project will only cause you headaches and nightmares. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to modularize your code to make it easier to manage large javascript projects.

Build a Beautiful Carousel with javascript from Scratch
In today’s Premium video tutorial, Pablo is going to show you how to create a Flash-like carousel…without using Flash! By implementing some clever javascript techniques, you’ll learn how to create this beautiful effect. As you’ll find, it’s not quite as complicated as you might imagine. It simply requires a solid grasp of Geometry