From the monthly archives: September 2008
Everybody who uses Photoshop knows the advantage of using actions and since a long time I was creating my own actions when for example trying to resize a lot of images at once. An action is nothing more than a series of commands you play back on a file. Off course you only use and [...]
AjaxForm or ajaxSubmit
This plug-in provides numerous options you can call to manage your form before and after submission and all this in AJAX. More info on http://malsup.com/jquery/form/
Live Query
When an element is loaded into a page, you will not be able to use the events on this element. [...]
I assumed until a couple of days ago that objects are way better then arrays, but let’s take a closer look into that.
As objects are an instance of a class you can always know what type of data is inserted in the object, when trying this in an array you quickly get in to [...]
It’s already clear that we are constantly working on applications for internet, and often those applications or websites use images. Over the years it became an evidence to use png images instead of jpeg or gif. How comes:
Jpeg covers 16.7 million colors and are without any doubt the best for photographic images, but when [...]
John Resig is writing a new book that will be released in the fall of 2008 and we are waiting impatiently. It’s called Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja and will be 300 pages full of information for the advanced JavaScript developer. As he says the book will cover cross-browser compatibility issues, I’m already [...]
The last couple of months, I’ve started reading some books about software and programming and I must say there are a few very interesting books out there. The most eye-catching books are those of Head First, they are not the most in to depth books on the market, but they make you [...]
When creating a more complex table the last few days, I noticed that it is very useful to create them with the different additional elements: tbody, thead, tfoot, col, th, td, etc…
In order to create a table in your webpage, it is not required to use these elements but when using css [...]
The use of patterns in code being a good enhancement isn’t big news. But I discovered them recently and am very positive about it. It can, when understood, hugely increase your readability and is a nice problem solver for complicated and extendible coding.
Before creating a design pattern, you have to create it on paper. [...]
What I like about Google software is its design simplicity. You cannot beat them at that point, after releasing Gmail a couple of years ago, Google maps, Google Calendar and Google Analytics, you just cannot deny the fact that they make cool and super simple (design wise) software. Now with the new Google Chrome they [...]
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