How to Make Italian Meringue Buttercream

When choosing between Swiss and Italian Meringue Buttercreams, the latter is definitely the one I prefer. Although it contains the same ingredients, Italian Meringue Buttercream is more airy and light than Swiss, which is the way I like a frosting to be.Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are afraid of this recipe because it involves cooking sugar syrup. But you shouldn't be! It's not that

Best of Woork in February 2009

Did you miss anything in February 2009 on Woork? Take a look at this list with the most interesting articles I wrote on my blog in the past month.

Interesting Resources to learn Object Oriented Design
This is a small list with some basic references about Object Oriented Design process and it includes an UML guide, some articles about how to write OO javascript, PHP and Perl code. I also included some video tutorials about an useful introduction to OO PHP.

Simple process to estimate times and costs in a web project
In this articles I want to illustrate a simplified top-down process to estimate times and costs of a web process using a simple spreadsheet (in this example I used Google Spreadsheets but if you prefer you can use Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice Spreadsheet or a free online service such as Zoho or EditGrid).

Best Image Croppers ready to use for web developers
If you are looking for an image cropper user interface ready to use in your web projects and simple to customize, take a look at this list with the best and free image croppers UI currently in circulation.

Ultra small code to drag everything in HTML pages
A frequent question I receive from my readers is about how to implement a simple script to drag elements in a web page. So in this post I want to illustrate the simplest method I know and use to drag everything in HTML pages, using just three rows of Javascript code.

File uploaders collection for web developers
After my previous post about Best Image Croppers ready to use for web developers I want to suggest you some interesting resources where you can find useful and free file uploaders ready to use in your web projects.

Best Rich Text Editors ready to use in web projects
This post illustrates five interesting rich text editors ready to use in your web projects.



Interesting html FORM Validators for web developers
This post illustrates how to use some interesting HTML Form validators to check FORM fields writing only some lines of HTML and JavaScript code. All these proposal are lightweight, cross-browser and simple to use and customize in your web projects in few minutes.

Useful Ajax Auto Suggest scripts collection
This post is a collection of some interesting and useful Ajax Auto Suggest scripts ready to use (from beginner or professional web developers) in your web projects. This collection includes standard auto suggest scripts, del.icious tag suggestion, autosuggest control to search images on Flickr, and advanced table filter with auto suggest control.

10 Beautiful and free fonts for web designers
Are you looking for new interesting fonts to make inspiration for your new website or design project?



Take a look at this list with some beautiful free fonts you can download and use on your creative projects.

Free spell checkers for HTML Forms
In this post I want to suggest you five interesting and free spell checkers for HTML Forms (input and text area) ready to use in your web projects. I also provided some suggestions regarding how to implement them on your pages using a few lines of HTML and Javascript code.

6 Interesting online presentations for web developers
If you are looking for free resources to learn Ajax, PHP, CSS and JavaScript take a look at this collection with six interesting online presentations about these topics. The list includes a short introduction to Ajax, how to write modular CSS code, PHP Object Model fundamentals and an overview about the most popular JavaScript libraries.

Free resources for quickly developing AJAX applications
In this post I want to suggest you some free resources which allow developers to quickly build and mantain powerful and advanced AJAX web applications. In this list you can find advanced grid features, calendars, tab-strip and a lot of other interesting components to develop and enrich your AJAX web applications.

10 Free CAPTCHA scripts and services for websites
In the past days I received several requests from my readers to suggest some CAPTCHA scripts and services quickly to embed into a web page. This post proposes a list of ten interesting scripts and services you can use to provide protection from spam bots and ensure that only humans perform certain actions.

Best of Woork in February 2009

Did you miss anything in February 2009 on Woork? Take a look at this list with the most interesting articles I wrote on my blog in the past month.

Interesting Resources to learn Object Oriented Design
This is a small list with some basic references about Object Oriented Design process and it includes an UML guide, some articles about how to write OO javascript, PHP and Perl code. I also included some video tutorials about an useful introduction to OO PHP.

Simple process to estimate times and costs in a web project
In this articles I want to illustrate a simplified top-down process to estimate times and costs of a web process using a simple spreadsheet (in this example I used Google Spreadsheets but if you prefer you can use Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice Spreadsheet or a free online service such as Zoho or EditGrid).

Best Image Croppers ready to use for web developers
If you are looking for an image cropper user interface ready to use in your web projects and simple to customize, take a look at this list with the best and free image croppers UI currently in circulation.

Ultra small code to drag everything in HTML pages
A frequent question I receive from my readers is about how to implement a simple script to drag elements in a web page. So in this post I want to illustrate the simplest method I know and use to drag everything in HTML pages, using just three rows of Javascript code.

File uploaders collection for web developers
After my previous post about Best Image Croppers ready to use for web developers I want to suggest you some interesting resources where you can find useful and free file uploaders ready to use in your web projects.

Best Rich Text Editors ready to use in web projects
This post illustrates five interesting rich text editors ready to use in your web projects.



Interesting html FORM Validators for web developers
This post illustrates how to use some interesting HTML Form validators to check FORM fields writing only some lines of HTML and JavaScript code. All these proposal are lightweight, cross-browser and simple to use and customize in your web projects in few minutes.

Useful Ajax Auto Suggest scripts collection
This post is a collection of some interesting and useful Ajax Auto Suggest scripts ready to use (from beginner or professional web developers) in your web projects. This collection includes standard auto suggest scripts, del.icious tag suggestion, autosuggest control to search images on Flickr, and advanced table filter with auto suggest control.

10 Beautiful and free fonts for web designers
Are you looking for new interesting fonts to make inspiration for your new website or design project?



Take a look at this list with some beautiful free fonts you can download and use on your creative projects.

Free spell checkers for HTML Forms
In this post I want to suggest you five interesting and free spell checkers for HTML Forms (input and text area) ready to use in your web projects. I also provided some suggestions regarding how to implement them on your pages using a few lines of HTML and Javascript code.

6 Interesting online presentations for web developers
If you are looking for free resources to learn Ajax, PHP, CSS and JavaScript take a look at this collection with six interesting online presentations about these topics. The list includes a short introduction to Ajax, how to write modular CSS code, PHP Object Model fundamentals and an overview about the most popular JavaScript libraries.

Free resources for quickly developing AJAX applications
In this post I want to suggest you some free resources which allow developers to quickly build and mantain powerful and advanced AJAX web applications. In this list you can find advanced grid features, calendars, tab-strip and a lot of other interesting components to develop and enrich your AJAX web applications.

10 Free CAPTCHA scripts and services for websites
In the past days I received several requests from my readers to suggest some CAPTCHA scripts and services quickly to embed into a web page. This post proposes a list of ten interesting scripts and services you can use to provide protection from spam bots and ensure that only humans perform certain actions.

Best of Woork in January 2009

Did you miss anything in January 2009 on Woork? Take a look at this list with the most interesting articles I wrote on my blog during the past month.


1. The Woork Handbook
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The Woork Handbook is a free eBook about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other topics about web design... directly form Woork!

2. How to create an awesome eBook Template using Word or Apple Pages

3. 8 Interesting CMS for e-commerce websites
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If you want to open an e-commerce website can be useful to take a look at this list with eigth interesting Content Management System which can help you to reduce your programming effort for developing e-commerce projects.

4. Free online services to bring more value to your blog
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6. Blogger hack to improve the default comment system with Google Friend Connect
7. Interesting resources to add new features to WordPress

8. 16 Outstanding free Dreamweaver extensions
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This post includes a nice collection of 16 outstanding free Dreamweaver extensions, such as jQuery and Prototype API extension, PayPal, Skype and Goolge tools extensions.

9. Structured process you must know to develop a web application
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Developing a web application it's a hard work which requires much time you have to spend doing a myriad of things. If you don't use a methodic approach, especially in case of a complex project, you run the risk of losing sight of the project, not respecting times of delivery and wast your time for nothing. This post illustrates a structured process which helps you to simplify the approach to develop your web applications saving time and more efficiently.

10. Add TwitThis on your Blogger template and drive more traffic on your website
11. Two fantastic free services to enrich your blog
12. 10 Stunning websites to inspire your webdesign style in 2009
13. The Art of reusing code in your web projects

14. 10 Delicious Free Fonts with commercial-use license
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A great selection of ten delicious, free commercial-use fonts you can use in your design projects.

15. 30 Interesting Twitter services and applications
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Take a look at this list with 30+ interesting Twitter services and applications which simplify your life with Twitter adding photos on your profile, creating tiny polls, monitoring the twittersphere and much more!

16. Ultra versatile slider for websites
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This tutorial explains a simple step-by-step way to implement an ultra versatile slider with horizontal scrolling and animated effects using MooTools. This is a basic proposal you can improve how you prefer. I included a link to the source code you can customize and reuse quickly in your web projects.

17. 10 Beautiful Web UI libraries
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Are you looking for any interesting and beautiful Web User Interface libraries for your next web site or Rich Internet Application ? Take a look at this list with ten WUI I suggest you to try in order to simplify your work and develope faster beautiful and usable user interfaces.

18. Beautiful datepickers and calendars for web developers
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Some simple suggestions to implement and customize datepickers and calendars, for beginner and professional web developers. Try them in order to simplify your developing process and save a lot of time reusing code already written. The result is really amazing!

19. Why netbooks can kill MacBook Air
20. 10 Stunning Mac software websites
21. Elegant animated weekly timeline for websites
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23. Useful tips to design horizontal website layout
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This tutorial Iillustrates some useful tips to design horizontal website layout using CSS and HTML code, also adding a nice animated scrolling effect using JavaScript.