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Mar 23

jQuery plugin: Nivo Slider

A really cool image slider than has some unique transitional effects without using Flash.

 

Mar 19

MooTools plugin: DatePicker

jQuery has the best functioning plugins. MooTools has the best looking plugins. Whenever I want to add in a datepicker I always find this and think: “Oooh. Pretty. Do want.”. Then realise it’s MooTools only. Real shame.

 

 

jQuery plugin: Sparklines

I know, I know. This plugin has been around for, what seems like, years. But I thought I would give it a little bit of a spotlight. And yes, so I can easily find it again.

 

 

jQuery plugin: asmSelect

asmSelect is a jQuery plugin providing progressive enhancement to select multiple form elements. It provides a simpler alternative with several advantages. This new version includes several bug fixes and enhancements.

 

Mar 18

How coupon codes can lead to lost revenue

In this post we’ll be looking at how coupon codes (used synonymously here with promo and discount codes) can cause retailers to lose revenue. I’ll share some (hopefully) interesting trends that I’m seeing with a client I work with, and hopefully start a discussion with how to turn lost revenue into gained revenue.

 

 

A good browser should be able to reproduce itself

This is an interesting project which aimes to completely reproduce the visual aspect of Safari in pure HTML+CSS with zero images. There are a few caveats at the moment, such as no refresh button, but they say they are working on it. Once again this really shows the power that HTML5 and CSS3 brings to the Web.

 

Mar 10

jQuery plugin: gameQuery

gameQuery is a jQuery plug-in to help make javascript game development easier by adding some simple game-related classes. It’s still in an early stage of development and may change a lot in future versions.

 

Mar 3

CSS/Javascript Word Clock

A lit­tle ex­per­i­ment I built: a word clock using CSS3 trans­forms and a lit­tle Javascript to run the ac­tu­al clock. Use­ful? Maybe not. Fun? Def­i­nite­ly.

 

 

CSS Border Radius Web Page

It’s one of those things that makes you think “Doh! I should have made that agaes ago”. A simple Web page that allows you to simply get the CSS for the exact border radius you want.

 

 

The main thing is not to install Flash

A security expert who has won the Pwn2Own contest for 2 years running said, basically, that Flash is insecure. Well, we all knew that which is why we add Flashblock and the like. Right?

 

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Obligatory links

jQuery plugin: JustGage

JustGage is a handy JavaScript plugin for generating and animating nice & clean gauges. It is based on Raphaël library for vector drawing, so it’s completely resolution independant and self-adjusting.

Javascript: URI.js

URI.js is a javascript library for working with URLs. It offers a “jQuery-style” API (Fluent Interface, Method Chaining) to read and write all regular components and a number of convenience methods like .directory() and .authority().

HTML5 mockup site: Moqups

There are many alternatives (Balsamiq and Go Mockingbird, to name a few) and haven’t delved too deeply, but looks like a solid (free, for now) alternative.

jQuery plugin: Handsontable

Handsontable is a minimalistic approach to Excel-like table editor in HTML & jQuery. Now with column and row headers!

jQuery plugin: Morris.js

Making good-looking graphs shouldn’t be hard. Morris.js is a lightweight library that uses jQuery and Raphaël to make drawing time-series graphs easy.

jQuery plugin: Turn.js

Turn.js is a JavaScript library that will make your content look like a real book or magazine using all the advantages of HTML5. The web is getting beautiful with new user interfaces based in HTML5; turn.js is the best fit for a magazine, book or catalog based in HTML5.

Try Git in your browser

Git allows groups of people to work on the same documents (often code) at the same time, and without stepping on each other’s toes. It’s a distributed version control system.

Brackets: The Open Source Code Editor for the Web

Brackets is a new open source project founded by Adobe to push tooling on the web forward. Based on the principle that the best developers to build tools for web developers are in fact web developers, Brackets is built in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

jQuery version 1.9 and beyond

Seems as though the jQuery team are planning on dropping support for IE 6/7/8 in jQuery 2.0, expected to be released in early 2013. Now, although I don’t particularly like IE, I think that might be a little too aggressive a development path. Unfortunately few people still use IE 6, a little more 7, and quite a chunk 8.

Node 0.8.0 released

I am thrilled to announce the arrival of a new stable version of Node.js. Compared with the v0.6 releases of Node, this release brings significant improvements in many key performance metrics, as well as cleanup in several core APIs,

‘Twisted light’ carries 2.5 terabits of data per second

Researchers have clocked light beams made of “twisted” waves carrying 2.5 terabits of data – the capacity of more than 66 DVDs – per second.

PHP sockets with Ratchet

Ratchet is a component library for PHP that provides developers with the tools to create real time, bi-directional applications between clients and servers. This is not your Grandfather’s Internet.

reFiddle: Helping to debug regular expressions

Test your regular expressions with live matching and custom string matching.

Google Maps adds UK waterways to travel routes

Google Maps users may soon find it easier to plan a trip on some of England and Wales’s waterways. The search engine has teamed up with the Canal and River Trust, a charity that will be in charge of the two countries’ water network from July.

jQuery plugin: Joyride

We have been meaning to add this kind of functionality to Signable for a while. Will have to add it to the ever-growing todo list.

Responsive design illustration

Resize your browser to reveal just a handful of the kind of devices you should expect web pages to be viewed on.

Microsoft announces Surface Table

Still no real “hands on” with the newly announced Microsoft Surface, but it looks as though it will integrate well into their product line since it runs Windows 8 (whether that will be a full or stripped version is as yet unknown).

A new way to CAPTCHA

PlayThru is the next generation of online human verification. It is designed to be more simple, more intuitive, and more fun than the current CAPTCHA options. We use game mechanics to create an experience that is more enjoyable than solving that awful squiggly text.

jQuery plugin: Nestable lists

I have actually created this exact plugin for our internal CMS – I might look into releasing it into the public after this.

Skype 4.0 released for Linux

Not sure how manu years Linux users have waited for an update, but it seems to finally be here!