Yesterday I had to figure out a way to make an extendable banner in Flash that when extended covers the content. The main idea with the approach I took is to load the shockwave in a div tag that is positioned above the content and have a movieclip in the shockwave for instance move down when the mouse is positioned over it.... Read More

The goal of this jflot interface was in essence a combination of the military budgets example and the zooming with overview example. ... Read More

If you are new to MODx you might want to check out the newbie MODx tutorial before you continue.... Read More

I’ve begun creating a site for a friend of mine who will sell diving, Asian Diving Vacation (please don’t bitch about the way it looks at this point, it’s a work in progress, the only reason I’m linking to it at this point is because there is also a lot of bitching about demos going on, so here you go demo freaks) . I’m using MODx because it simply rocks for the purpose, we don’t need any strange modules that would require something from the giant repositories of Drupal or Joomla.... Read More

Today I noticed a nice, short example of the Zend Framework, jQuery and Smarty stack I’m using. It’s got a lot of niceties from each component in a very small space, perfect for showcasing each and how they can be integrated!... Read More

Update: There is a new much simpler series using jQuery/Ajax to create a grid-like CRUD interface, if the below is too much that one is a much better place to start.... Read More

Update (2010-08): There is now a newer tutorial on jQuery UI’s sortable, using a much simpler GUI than in this tutorial.... Read More

The blog saga continues, we still don’t have any fancy Wordpress style filtering of the content. You know, creating these nice looking quotes and filtering potentially nasty html and stuff. Sure enough, TinyMCE has some function for allowing only certain tags and discarding others but I haven’t had time to look at that yet, I will though… Fancy filtering is not in the requirements for this project either however. But changing and deleting blog posts are necessary actions though, so is some kind of search for articles. Let’s begin by looking at what’s been added to the desktop menu:... Read More

In this article I will describe setting up an interface for writing articles that is reminiscent of Wordpress but much simpler. We will use jQuery and a suitable plugin to do client side validation, we will also implement some jQuery AJAX to make the form more responsive.... Read More

Today I found Chili which is a jQuery plugin. I’ve been looking for something like this for quite some time. The ability to highlight code snippets client side is a very appealing thought. No more server side manipulation that might be prone to errors, follow the link to Priyadi’s autoescape plugin below for a more thorough discussion.... Read More