links for 2008-10-23

Daily Del.icio.us

• GeoMaker - Turning web content into maps made easy (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
  A day sick at home, a dash of YUI and some PHP later, you can see the result: GeoMaker. In just three steps you use content to create a copy-and-paste map to include in your pages. Check out the following screencast to see GeoMaker in action:
• jQuery TOOLS - The missing UI library for the Web
  jQuery Tools is a collection of the most important user-interface components for today's websites. This single JavaScript file weighs only 5.8 Kb
• Matt Berseth: glowbuttons - Writing My First jQuery Plugin
  A jQuery plugin that makes form buttons glow when focused.
• LABjs (Loading And Blocking JavaScript) project description
  This project is a simple little tool (1.6k compressed!) for being able to load javascript files dynamically. It's like a lot of similar projects where the goal is to improve the speed of page load by allowing scripts to load in parallel. The thing it does slightly differently than most others like it is it allows you to "block", which is to say, load one or more scripts in parallel, then wait for them to finish, before going on to something else, like loading more scripts.
• Turn-By-Turn Directions with the Google Maps API - Nettuts+
  In this tutorial, we will go through the process of creating a small widget that allows users to retrieve turn-by-turn directions to a specified location. We'll be using the Google Maps API, via JavaScript, to provide this rather advanced functionality.