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Archive for April, 2010

Ready or Not, Here Ubuntu Comes!

As many of you know I use Ubuntu on a daily basis. All of my web development is done with it, unless I’m forced to develop something on a Winders platform. It seems though Ubuntu 10.04 is already upon us and I’ve hardly noticed! Well.. it’s nearly here.. Ubuntu has upgraded Gnome, the kernel, new [...]

New Projects Section

I’ve been studying how I could improve my blog to meet its main purposes lately, and I’ve create a new Projects section on the sidebar to help display various projects I have developed. I haven’t posted every single code snippet I’ve ever done, but it covers the larger projects which get the most of my [...]

Since I’ve not found a timepicker suitable for my needs (although there are some pretty decent ones out there) I decided to make one. I needed date-time and just time, so built it on top of jQuery UI’s Datepicker, so I have access to just one or both. A couple key features in this addon [...]

I thought I would share with you quickly how you can use CSS3 selectors to spice up your Impromptu buttons. Lets say you have a prompt with a Delete button. Delete normally indicates caution/danger/warning which is usually represented by a red color. We can let our CSS do the dirty work and have it find [...]

UberUploadCropper 0.2 With Example

Finally, I’ve put together an example of UberUploadCropper, as well as getting it up to date with Uploadify 2.1. If you don’t remember what UberUploadCropper is, it is a small jquery plugin that brings together Uploadify, Impromptu, and Jcrop, to seamlessly upload and crop images. Here’s a visual: For a brief snippet of code of [...]