22. April 2009

Mogulus at NAB 2009

When it comes to my development environment I have always been really picky. I need a clean and structured interface, not to cluttered, but still adjustable to my needs. I have tested countless IDE solutions in the past, but always seem to come back to Komodo from ActiveState.

18. April 2009

Jabber Twitter Bridge

A java application which :

checks your Jabber or google talk (gtalk) status and updates your Twitter status if there is a new one.
checks your twitter status and updates your Jabber or google talk status.
checks your meetings in google calendar and sends a Tweet like this : in a meeting until 15h or free until 15h,
updates your Jabber or google talk status

18. April 2009

Tweety – Twitter to Jabber

Tweety is a cool tool that looks up your Twitter-Feeds periodically and sends new messages directly to your Jabber account.

Tweety

16. April 2009

jQuery imgAreaSelect – select a rectangular area of an image

If you searched for an easy way to select a rectangular area within an image, you should take a look at the imgAreaSelect plugin.

Perfect way to get your coordinates before cropping with a server side language like PHP.

jQuery imgAreaSelect

15. April 2009

jQuery Horizontal Accordion 2.0 Alpha has been released

The first release of the new jQuery Horizontal Accordion Menu is now available.

No dependencies
Optional use of easing plugin (still some work required)
Close and open content one after the other
Close and open at the same time
Choose trigger (mouseover, click …)
Easily control through external calls
Open content on load
Open content through hash tags in the url (#tab1, #tab2…)
Position of handle (left, right)
Mixed handle positions – 2 left , 2 right …
Cycle through content by interval
Events when animations starts and ends
Hide content until all has been assembled

Should work fine on Firefox, IE and Safari. Works in Opera, but still requires to set a fixed width for the containers, defined through the options (working on a fix).

Project Page
Demo

14. April 2009

Dwoo a Smarty Alternative

Dwoo is a PHP5 template engine positioned as an alternative to Smarty, it is (nearly) fully compatible with its templates and plugins, but it is written from scratch and aimed at going one step further with a cleaner codebase.

About Dwoo: Dwoo is a PHP5 Template Engine that was started in early 2008. The idea came from the fact that Smarty, a well known template engine, is getting older and older. It carries the weight of it’s age, having old features that are inconsistent compared to newer ones, being written for PHP4 its Object Oriented aspect doesn’t take advantage of PHP5’s more advanced features in the area, etc. Hence Dwoo was born, hoping to provide a more up to date and stronger engine. So far it has proven to be faster than Smarty and it provides a compatibility layer to allow developers that have been using Smarty for years to switch their application over to Dwoo progressively.

14. April 2009

jQuery – load CSS first

As soon as you use jQuery to manipulate CSS, you should load your CSS files before you load the core of jQuery.

Something I often had to deal with, especially when plugins check for certain css values, this includes my own Horizontal Accordion Menu.

8. April 2009

jQuery Horizontal Accordion 2.0 Alpha Preview

A small preview of the soon to be released jQuery Horizontal Accordion 2.0 Alpha. Should currently work fine on Firefox and IE. Will be doing more extensive tests on other browsers after the first release.

The examples might not load from time to time, as I am updating live.

First clean release will be available after Easter.

Take a look

3. April 2009

Create a Nice & Clean Sliding Login Panel in jQuery

Create a Nice & Clean Sliding Login Panel in jQuery.

3. April 2009