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JKumon: Kumon-like Game for Practicing Math & jQuery Skills

One of the most impressive skills that I like to train is doing math in my head. It’s so good don’t be addicted to that devil’s creation called calculator!

But what is even better is having some fun while practicing it. So you have to challenge yourself, see your improvements, and learn things. The most you train yourself, the most you’ll want to train.

This is why I like Kumon method. It’s used as a math and reading educational method, which is based on moving on to the next level when you have achieved mastery of the previous level. And mastery is defined as speed (using a standard completion time) and accuracy.

What we’ll be doing today is an amazing game to simulate this method so you’ll get a few operations to do, and have limited time to complete them. And the best thing is that it all will be done with jQuery!

So, let’s rock.

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John Lennon Tribute – Amazing slideshow

Today is the 31th anniversary of John Lennon’s death. Despite he was dead long before I was born, I feel that he really changed my life (same thing with Paul, George and why not say, Ringo). OK, but this isn’t a music-related website so what we’ll do is to use this great event to do a small tribute to him, and in the meantime learn a little about jQuery.

What we’ll be doing here is what I called “Weekly app”. Once a week we’ll do a good looking effect that is more than a simple plugin, and you can use to built great interfaces to you clients. At the beginning our goal was to do something similar to qwiki (via HTML) but due to time restrictions we’ll do a magazine slide show effect, that is pretty cool also, and quite remembers a few of qwiki effects.

So, let’s rock!