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1 May
2013
Power-tools for your Bootstrap toolbox
Consumed => “Bootstrap Toolbox – Tools, Utilities, Generators and Templates” on Speckyboy Design Magazine.
Thursday
14 March
2013
HTML form inputs: disabled vs readonly
FYI => HTML form input: The difference between “disabled” and “readonly”.
Tuesday
25 September
2012
10 Ajax solutions for the development toolbox
Bookmarked => “10 New jQuery AJAX Techniques with Source Code” by Vikas Panwar on Web Insight Lab.
Monday
17 September
2012
Top new jQuery plugins (September 2012)
Consumed => “20 New jQuery Plugins Worth Taking a Look at” by Speckyboy Editors on Speckyboy Design Magazine.
Tuesday
11 September
2012
Consume an RSS feed with Javascript
Consumed => “How to work with RSS using Google Feed API and JavaScript” by Ryan Boudreaux on TechRepublic.
Friday
24 August
2012
Fine tuning jQuery selectors
Consumed => “Filtering elements with jQuery by Joel Rodrigues on Mr Bool.
Thursday
9 August
2012
jQuery plugin: ezColumnControl v0.5.0 (beta)
FYI => Presenting my latest jQuery plugin…ezColumnControl – beta release (v0.5.0).
Friday
29 June
2012
Getting started: Javascript unit testing with QUnit
Consumed => “Introduction To JavaScript Unit Testing” by Jörn Zaefferer on Smashing Magazine.
Friday
15 June
2012
jQuery++ – A collection of DOM helpers
Bookmarked => jQuery++
Monday
11 June
2012
jQuery best practices
Consumed => “jQuery – Proven Performance Tips & Tricks” by Addy Osmani on his blog.
Tuesday
5 June
2012
Build a better jQuery image hover
Consumed => “How to create an image hover-preview effect using jQuery” by Ryan Boudreaux on TechRepublic.
Monday
4 June
2012
A dirty little secret about form updates via Ajax
FYI => I’ve been working up a jquery plugin for ExpressionEngine’s SafeCracker that would make certain updates via Ajax easier.
Friday
25 May
2012
Launched: Shanachie Entertainment’s new website
FYI => I’m a bit late on announcing this proper but… Launched: Shanachie Entertainment’s new website. http://www.alchemyunited.com/2012/05/16/launch-shanachie-com Falco Design’s client. FD did the PM, design and majority of the markup. I was contracted for the ExpressionEngine development slice. Also, along the way my jquery plugin ezPagination was envisioned, coded and added to the mix. Please [...]
jQuery plugins: Best of…filtering and/or sorting
Bookmarked => “35 Useful jQuery Filter and Sort Plugins” by Lars on Smashing Magazine.
Tuesday
15 May
2012
EE, SafeCracker, Ajax and updating multiple channels / entries
FYI => The UX called for a clean Ajax based updated within an ExpressionEngine SafeCracker form. What wasn’t so standard was having to update two (or more) EE channels / entries via a single form submit. And this is where the magic started to happen.
Monday
23 April
2012
Many thanks to Mr Shawn Lehner
FYI => I had hit a bottleneck with some jQuery code I was working with for a Google Custom Search project and Shawn helped to troubleshoot and solve the problem. Cheers Shawn.
Wednesday
18 April
2012
Google Custom Search with jQuery
Consumed => “Google Powered Site Search with jQuery” by Martin Angelov on Tutorialzine.
Tuesday
10 April
2012
Look ma! I did the EE dev for…
FYI => Look ma! I did some of that—the CMS web dev / ExpressionEngine part. I’m going to do a formal “launched” post in soon. But until then I figured I should mention that Shanachie Entertainment’s press release made it Yahoo News. http://news.yahoo.com/celebrated-independent-record-label-shanachie-entertainment-relaunches-newly-110223373.html http://Shanachie.com My slice was the ExpressionEngine development and a bit of jquery. [...]
Monday
19 March
2012
The future of EZ Event Tracking is soon
FYI => I bumped into Waypoints (a jQuery plugin) and to be honest it inspired me to rethink my (jQuery plugin) EZ Event Tracking, or at least expand its functionality and general approach.
Tuesday
7 February
2012
jQuery plugin: EZ Event Tracking v0.5.3 (Beta) for Google Analytics
FYI => Want to improve the accuracy of your Google Analytics bounce rate? Or perhaps you want to count how many times a PDF was downloaded? By adding just a couple bits of CSS to your page markup this jQuery plugin makes Google Analytics Event Tracking well, um…easy.
