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19. December 2008

Christmas is close

Finally getting some off time. The Christmas spirit has not caught me yet, but still have a few days to get into the mood :)

Will also celebrating my birthday away from home this year, yeah I was born right between Christmas and New Year :)

Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Cheers
Alexander

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15. December 2008

Lorem ipsum generators

A small list of “lorem ipsum” generators, to fill these demo websites with some content fast:


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Liquid Canvas is a JavaScript library which allows you to draw
inside an HTML canvas element with an easy yet powerful description
language.
It can be used to add graphics to your web page without ever touching an image creation tool.

  • Automatic generation of HTML canvas elements which scale with their HTML container, e.g. a floating DIV
  • Abstraction of canvas – each HTML element gets a “paint” method
  • Works with plugins for rendering
  • Loads of plugins already exist
  • Own plugins are possible
  • Simplified render language for plugin-based rendering
  • Rendering language uses a CSS-like syntax for plugin styles
  • Based on HTML Canvas, jQuery, ExplorerCanvas
  • Tested on Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome

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SmartMarkUP
is a lightweight and powerful JavaScript library that allows you to
turn any textarea into a fancy markup editor. HTML, CSS, XML, Wiki
syntax, BBCode or any other desired markup language can be implemented
and/or adjusted to your preferences and business needs. SmartMarkUP doesn’t depend on any other JavaScript library and can be integrated with any already existing JavaScript library or code.

With single line of code you can turn any general textarea to
powerful markup editor. As far as integration is unobtrusive, HTML of
your application will remain unchanged. SmartMarkUP degrades gracefully
for users without JavaScript without loosing functionality of your
application.

SmartMarkUP is completely customizable and
scriptable as well. Changing styles, implementing new markups, creating
extra buttons and submenus or adding new functionality is a matter of
minutes. SmartMarkUP is distributed under GPL open source licenses, so
SmartMarkUP is absolutely free and you can do anything you like with it!

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I was a big fan of the first Punisher movie,  but the latest trailer of Punisher II or better Punisher: War Zone will hardly make me see this movie.

The movie really flatlines for me from the first trailer I saw. Not a single piece of news has got me excited so far. This will be a straight to dvd for me :)

About the movie

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Anybody trying to use preg_replace on multidimensional arrays will see that the function is not working for those cases. Here a quick workaround:

 

Enjoy coding …

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PHPExcel is
providing a set of classes for the PHP programming language, which
allow you to write to Excel 2007 files and read from Excel 2007 files.
This project is built around the Microsoft OpenXML standard and PHP.

Really solid set of classes and I am sure any programmer has come across the need to import or export excel data at some point, without using the standard csv solution.

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“The objective here is an extremely small footprint widget library yet powerfull enough to
have all the basic capabilities of a large library”

Really nice start and can not wait to see what widgets will be added in the future. Never used other widget libraries due to their size, nice that JX will try to keep its footprint as low as possible.

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6. November 2008

Layoff virus hits sales

The current economic situation seems to be spreading like a virus and more and more companies seem to lay off people to prepare for a cold winter ahead.

The current situation also slows down sales and online commerce, at least that is what many of my customers are currently experiencing. Some of that might also be related to the pre-christmas season, as many  hold back with purchases.

Its no wonder with gas and power prices constantly on the rise, that we are all getting more careful with what we purchase. That is also what is hitting ebay heavily, because less and less people are willing to do those quick emotional purchases.

Well lets hope that its really only a short slide this winter and things stabilze a bit start of next year.

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