Archive for category Programming
CSS Formatting Woes
Posted by John in CSS, Programming on November 4th, 2009
As much as I like to save some bandwidth here and there, going in to edit a stylesheet where each rule is on its own line can be a nightmare. I went in search of some CSS formatting tools to make life a little easier. (Because who wants to reformat 4000 lines of CSS by ...
Write less with Less to make more CSS
Posted by John in CSS, Programming on July 5th, 2009
Less is a CSS pre-processor that I came across recently and there seems to be quite the buzz going around about it. Including some discussion about what is good about it, what really sucks about it, and so on. After seeing some of the drawbacks, and the advantages of using Less, I’ve decided that it should be put through it’s paces and I’ll be trying to use it in a project in the near future so I can see if it will be a benefit.
Klok your time
Posted by John in News, Programming on June 17th, 2009
I seem to always forget where I actually spend my time when I am working on a client's website, and I've been looking around for decent time tracking software for a while - scribbling down numbers on a bit of paper just doesn't cut it any more. Recently, I stumbled across Klok. It is an Adobe ...
1 line CSS Grid Framework
Posted by John in CSS, Programming on June 8th, 2009
This is the challenge of writing entire CSS layout system with one line CSS class. I just wanted to prove how easy CSS can be, and with little imagination we can be build cool things. via Carrer Blog: 1 line CSS Grid Framework. I wouldn't mind giving a simple grid framework like this a try, quite often we ...
Advanced docking using jQuery
Posted by John in JavaScript, Programming on June 8th, 2009
Some time ago I was doing some proof of concept: how Visual Studio docking functionality can be done with jQuery and unordered lists. Basically, the main goal was to implement multiple docking and undocking functionality. This tutorial will show you the results of PoC. via Advanced docking using jQuery. I wouldn't mind using something like this on ...
jQuery Highlight Plugin | bartaz @ GitHub
Posted by John in JavaScript, Programming on June 8th, 2009
It will probably not be a big surprise that jQuery Highlight plugin can be used to highlight pieces of text on a page. It's based on great Highlight plugin by Johann Burkard. To be honest most of the credit should go to him, as all I did was a little refactoring and customisation (so blame ...
jQuery Delay Plugin – EvanBot.com
Posted by John in Programming on April 6th, 2009
I'm a big fan of jQuery and for all it's super awesomeness, it doesn't yet have a native "delay" method. I went looking for something that could delay some meny actions for me today and fortunately I found someone had written this little plugin :-) A simple jQuery plugin that allows you to add a delay ...
jQuery API browser
Posted by John in Programming on February 2nd, 2009
If you use jQuery (or have to deal with jQuery code written by others), a new API browser has been released to coincide with the release of jQuery 1.3 http://api.jquery.com/ features a very nice search indeed, you can type in any of the jQuery functions and the list of results is update in real time. A ...
Add-on for an add-on: FireScope
Posted by John in CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Programming on January 28th, 2009
What's the world coming to when we've got add-ons for add-ons in Firefox? This extension comes shortly after the announcement that Sitepoint have put up their JavaScript Reference. The new extension pulls in information from their reference, at the moment it only works for the HTML and CSS reference, but once the JavaScript reference is more complete ...
jQuery 1.3.1 Released
Posted by John in JavaScript, Programming on January 22nd, 2009
Only a very short time after the initial 1.3.0 release of jQuery - we're seeing 1.3.1 released to fix a few bugs present in the previous version. With the 1.3.x releases, the jQuery developers have also decided to stop providing a "packed" version of the script, the reasons cited being performance and compatibility reasons. The minified ...
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