jQuery input text selection toggler
On a recent project I was asked to add some client side functionality to an input field, so that people clicking in the input box would have the contents auto-selected. Not a problem, a fairly easy...
View ArticlejQuery stop animation
On a recent project I was required to write some QUnit based tests for some jQuery widgets that I’d built. The goal was to try and test all of the functionality of the widget in isolation, however some...
View ArticleXHTML, JavaScript & CDATA
This is one of those really annoying pieces of syntax that I can never remember and that I always have to look up so I figured that other people would surely have the same issue :) Anyway, see below...
View ArticleConverting MySQL timestamp to RSS pubDate in PHP
A quick and simple means of using PHP to convert a MySQL timestamp field into the required format for the RSS pubDate field. date('D, d M Y H:i:s O', strtotime($mysql_timestamp_val));
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jQuery Spiderable Select Field
There is always a lovely balance to be had between the worlds of design and code, especially when it comes to balancing the wants and desires of the product owner, especially when factoring in search...
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8 Quick wins for improving page speed
It’s been stated many times before that you only have a small window of opportunity to capture a user’s attention when they visit your website. One factor in grabbing this user and holding on to them...
View ArticleJavaScript: sort objects in array
I needed to sort an array of objects in JavaScript recently and was quite frankly amazed by 2 things: I’d never done it before in 7+ years of JavaScript It’s really rather easy! JavaScript has...
View ArticleGoogle, mobile payments & biographical data
As a reader of Daily Reckoning I was interested in an article they put together on the rise (or more to the point, the lackthereof) of payments via mobile phones in the US. It mentions the lack of...
View ArticleSkills for Front End Developers
Louis Lazarus over at impressivewebs.com recently wote an interesting article on the skills which front end developers should have. It was an interesting post though I felt it turned into a bit of a...
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MSDN Usability Advice Gaff
I got sent a link to an MSDN usability article with “20 Tips for a Better, Functional User Experience”. Number 9 on the list is “Never Disrupt the User” – which was amusingly accompanied by an...
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