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Adding proper sliding effects to jQuery slideshow plugin ‘NivoSlider’

The Nivo Slider jQuery plugin by Dev7studios is a free slideshow gallery. It provides lots of fancy transition animations such as fade-in, fade-out or cutting the image into moving slices. For my site, I just want a simple sliding animation, that moves the image from the left or right edge of the slideshow box into […]

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Developing bada: one global object – the Singleton

  When I designed my database class for my current application project, I had to ask myself how to actually be able to access this class from anywhere in my application, from every form, class and whatnot. Of course I could just create an instance of my database class on the spot, just where I […]

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Developing bada: XML Parsing with Namespaces

Thanks to wit’s very helpful introduction into working with XML: Working with Working with XML in Bada (part 1) – Simple XPath Parsing I could quickly enter the quite more sophisticated data processing, but the tutorial reached its bounds when I encountered an XML file with namespaces, which alot xml feeds contain. Thanks to an […]

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Developing bada: DateTime – workday or holiday?

In my current bada application project I encountered the task to find out what day of the week a specific date (DateTime object with Day, Month and Year parameters). Thanks to the hardworking developer huydung and other community members over at badadev.com I could write a fine working function you can simply add to your […]