From the deep

Feb 25

jQuery text resizer

I was on a site today which offered text resizing. Great I thought, let me increase the font a wee bit—it was a bit small. It proceeded to reload the page completely to set the cookie using some server-side language. The site in question was running quite slow, so it took me upwards of 5 seconds to see the changes. It would have been quicker for me to tap cmd+plus a couple times.

 

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Obligatory links

Create simple UML diagrams on-the-fly

yUML is an online tool for creating and publishing simple UML diagrams. It’s makes it really easy for you to: Embed UML diagrams in blogs, emails and wikis, Post UML diagrams in forums and blog comments, Use directly within your web based bug tracking tool and Copy and paste UML diagrams into MS Word documents and Powerpoint presentations.

Javascript Tidy

One thing I often need to do is to tidy javascript from it’s packed state. Often to fix the developers bugs, add new features or to modify it slightly. I give you, the Javascript Tidy, a tool I couldn’t live without.

jQuery Slider plugin (Safari style)

A pretty awesome slider. Haven’t tried it out yet but the new version seems pretty easy to skin, so you can style it however-the-hell you want (note: click the ‘jQuery Slider update’ link).