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Thursday, May 24, 2007

A summer photo gallery

I want to mix up these two projects

ZenPhoto - home / example
Hoverbox - home/example

I want to have the ZenPhoto as it is, but on the main category listing, I want the hover feature on mouse over of the image for that category or the title/link of the category.

Should prove interesting..



Update:

This guy got picasa to work with Gallery, an open source gallery system with its own photo upload program.
Gallery & Picasa Integration

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

new memory for the desktop

I found this cheap memory online, turns out to be $50 cheaper than the nicer name brand memory - partriot, from newegg.com

I'm planning on buying 4gb of ram for the desktop. Sick of screwing with a slow machine.. It's a p4 box running 3.2ghz processor.. So we'll see how this fares up..

http://www.partspc.com/ProductDetails.asp?CatID=584&ProdID=3293

Sunday, May 13, 2007

javascript onClick clear Text Area

For easier form usability, I found this article about clearing out a text input so the user does not have to delete the inputs instruction contents in order to submit without the instructions included as part of the submit..

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Thursday, May 10, 2007

great css ideas

reset the browser -- from crucialwebhost

70 more css tips..

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

huge list of color scheme sites

http://www.colorschemes.org/

Here's a great flash-based color generator

background images from flickr

This is a good site for getting images of a certain color for background..
http://www.krazydad.com/colrpickr/

create sexy css buttons

sexy css buttons -- some god stuff about sliding doors technique for css buttons..

freelancer website

http://freelanceswitch.com/index.php could have some interesting information..

17 e-commerce site tips

17 tips from seomoz.org

Good contrast in the design on their site and some decent tips for e-commerce site usability..

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Adobe Flex: Open Source

Flex is an XML based langauge (MXML) that provides an interface to Flash on the presentation tier in the development environment. I have come to terms with Flex being Flash for web coders. It would replace a scripting language like php or jsp.

Sample app: Google Finance

Well it is now open source, providing an sdk and dev environment. I know that adobe has released a plugin for the eclipse ide, JSEcplipse, primarily for javascript coding (supports all the big ajax frameworks) but also includes support for flex constructs.

Should prove to be an interesting summer of coding..

Monday, April 23, 2007

html back button: Simple Enough

For some reason its come up on a few projects lately that we need a back button built into the web applications navigation interface. Simple enough..


<input value="Back" name="ClickBack"
onclick="(history.back())" type="button">

result:

Sunday, April 22, 2007

CakePHP

I have been looking to start back into PHP for some projects coming up here in the not so distant future. I would like to find a very comprehensive php framework to base off of but dynamic enough to expand on... Possibly incorporate small benefits from other projects into.. Anyways, I've discovered CakePHP. We'll see how this goes..

I would also like to explore zendframework a little more, as it is supposed to be the best xml framework for api integration with all the big boys out there. (google, yahoo, etc..)

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Free Ajax class

Structure of the class resembles an online college course:
http://www.javapassion.com/ajaxcodecamp/

javascript debuggers

http://dotnetslackers.com/Debugger/re-35171_Javascript_debuggers.aspx

Advanced syntax highlighting tool

http://dotnetslackers.com/XML/re-12541_Advanced_syntax_highlighting_tool.aspx

Monday, April 16, 2007

Windows 2003 server small business setup

I just finished setting up Windows 2003 Server: Small Business Edition, and its been working great for a few days, and then today I have a box that will auto restart on its own every hour. Apparently those extra 3 discs that came with the setup for 2003 server are not optional in the setup/installation process. You have to finish this off in order to complete the registration process with Microsoft, otherwise you are in violation of the EULA... Fun stuff

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555087

Friday, April 06, 2007

c++ boost library

Making a note to check out these libraries for c++ dev work..
http://www.boost.org/

WinMerge

I found a project for comparing the contents of two files. There are always those crappy small-time commercial versions out there but here's an open source solution that compares files as well as directory contents.. Rather clean interface..

WinMerge

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