Archive for February 2012

From web developer to designer…

A great developer, but not so much a designer. It seems that over the years working as a web developer all my my focus went into just that… developing. I read online though that there are many people who work exclusively as developers and never design a PSD in their life. One of the pitfalls [...]

Simple jQuery plugin for Vertically Centering

Came across this while needing to vertically center a div within another div: 1234567891011(function ($) { // VERTICALLY ALIGN FUNCTION $.fn.vAlign = function() {     return this.each(function(i){     var ah = $(this).height();     var ph = $(this).parent().height();     var mh = Math.ceil((ph-ah) / 2);     $(this).css(’margin-top’, mh);     }); [...]

Great WordPress Plugins

WordPress is certainly one of the most feature rich and user friendly publishing platforms available today. At the same time it is loved for its openness, extendability and great open source community. WordPress is today used in serious projects and on large commercial websites besides the millions of hard working bloggers sharing their valuable knowledge. [...]

Styling your WordPress Comments

I recently stumbled across a website that shows you how to customise your theme’s comments skin, and also provides you with some nice code/themes that you can drop into the template file, such as: Green Gravatar:  The Speech Bubble: The blog post can be found at: http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2007/08/18/styling-your-wordpress-comments/. I realize though that it was written in 2007, and the wordpress code [...]

Fasthosts shared SSL and osCommerce: Not happening!

First things first: osCommerce will not work when using a shared SSL certificate on Fasthosts (and probably other hosts that use shared SSL, too). I had searched everywhere for a solution but nobody seems to be able to get it to work. I came close, but the closer I came the more problems occurred. Let me [...]

atoChat v1.0

Just a recap here, of some things that have changed in atoChat v1.0: Installer updated with new skin Now almost XHTML compliant Javascript moved to its own .js file, instead of being in the index.php All the ajax calls are much more stable now, it initializes it’s own xmlHttp object for each call instead of [...]

Adding/Editing Tables for posts in WordPress

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mce-table-buttons/

Remove scrollbars and get your facebook app/canvas iframe to autosize to height – FB.Canvas.setAutoGrow()

Note: This works with the new facebook 810px width canvas page! Also, my example is currently down, but the code below still works. If you have created a Facebook application that has an canvas iframe tab and you want the iframe to automatically grow to the size of the content, you can use FB.Canvas.setAutoGrow() within [...]