The end of the year 2010 is near so I’ve prepared this post for all you coders, developers and other geeks. You know when you build applications (especially web applications) you often leave a copyright notice on every page saying “Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved” or whatever? Right, but what developers tend to forget is that time passes by and that they have to go back and...
Highcharts: Pure Javascript Charts API
I was working on a project lately that involved charts and graphs which had to be interactive, lightweight and somewhat complicated. I looked through quite a lot of different chart APIs, and for some time thought that I’d have to go with Open Flash Chart which is good and simple, but it was Flash. There’s nothing wrong with Flash, but Flash is what makes it more complicated to modify...
Now with the Facebook Like Button!
Obviously, the Facebook Like button is one you’d like to implement inside your blog, website or whatsoever. I did too, although I am quite late as everyone has theirs for ages, but why not share some thoughts about it and the whole social widgets riot? As we all know (or maybe suspect) the web is going social, and what value is your blog if your readers can’t share your article with...
Introducing Retweet Anywhere for WordPress
Hey, guess what! I’ve just released a new WordPress plugin called Retweet Anywhere. It’s something I’ve been working on a few days, inspired by the previoulsy used Sociable and Tweetmeme plugins, allowing visitors to tweet my posts. What I didn’t like about those two is that Sociable simply redirects to twitter.com with a preset status, and Tweetmeme is not customizable...
Setup Twitter @Anywhere for WordPress in Seconds!
That’s right, seconds! The twitter @Anywhere was introduced at SXSW conference and launched the dev tools a couple of days ago. It’s a simple javascript-driven set of tools that allows you to basically integrate Twitter functionality anywhere on your websites. Usage is as simple as loading a javascript file and launching a couple of js commands, which instantly give you the power of...
jQuery Cycle: Pager and pagerAnchorBuilder
One very awesome and useful plugin for jQuery is jQuery Cycle, which pretty much works out of the box, but browsing through the second part of the Intermediate Demos we’ve seen a click transition called Pager, which is somewhat tricky. Pager is nothing but a few links next to your cycling block with page numbers, which switch the cycle upon click. It’s very useful when you have to...
WordPress 2.9: From a Developer's Point of View
Yup, WordPress 2.9 is finally out and I’ve seen a lot of people upgrade immediately – sweet thing to do, I did so too and hadn’t had any problems here (I’m not using too much plugins), then I switched over to the 3.0 branch, all good! The semi-square buttons in the admin interface are fixed by the way ;) Anyways, this post is not about my blog, but about something...
Inspired: Javascript & jQuery Love
Remember the “inspired” blog posts series I started back in November? Well, let’s keep playing that game and today’s topic is jQuery and Javascript. The things you can do with javascript today are pretty impressive and sometimes unbelievable. Starting from simple AJAX calls and ending up with complete rich user interfaces with sweet animation (poke Facebook for instance)...
Extending the jQuery Lightbox Plugin: Custom Link
Lightbox. I love it, though one interesting limitation I came over today is that there’s no extra linking possibilities. Yeah, the back and forth links are cool, but I’d like to take my visitor to some place whenever he clicks the full-sized image, not just close the lightbox. A good example may be an art gallery, where you can view an image set via lightbox, and then suddenly you...
Powered by Delicious: Web Design, Coding & HTML5
This is my first “Powered by Delicious” post, but I plan on writing similar posts at least once a month or so, depending how many links I bookmark. Here’s a list of some of my latest delicious bookmarks, with goodies on web design, coding, html5, photoshop, javascript and a bunch of other stuff. The Most 10 Common Mistakes Web Designers Make | Noupe 50+ Top Free Icon Resources...