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Review of HTML5 Canvas Libraries
There's been a buzz around HTML5 for some time now with many leading commentators in the online tech community heavily pushing the new standard. With the last version of HTML being released back in...
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Using JavaScript to emulate HTML5 placeholders in Internet Explorer
HTML5 is now the default choice of HTML version for most developers but poor support in Internet Explorer has proven to be a hindrance to the wider adoption of the language. This lack of native support...
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Redbridge College Workshop: Foundation Internet Marketing
Speakers Andy Walpole from Suburban Glory Web Design & Rob Keating from Offline to Online. Tuesday September 20th, 6.30pm – 8.30pm Are you starting a business or already running a business? Are you...
View ArticleAn easy way to use the Twitter API
Twitter, surely, has had one of the most successful developer outreach programmes of all time. Their relaxed attitude to data access has meant that a myriad of superb side projects has sprung up and...
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An introduction to Deck JS
PowerPoint has been the choice of software for corporate presentations since the 1990s. Easy to use and configure, it takes real skill to mess a PowerPoint presentation up. However, for web coders...
View ArticleBarking and Dagenham Chamber of Commerce seminar: Practical Advice for...
Topics and speakers include: Search Engine Optimisation, Andy Walpole, Suburban Glory Web Design How to Maximise your Branding, Ray Calder, Acumen Design Simple tips to increase your £££ Flow and...
View ArticlePushing CSS to its limits
As CSS3 roars ahead in spite of the old Internet Explorer legacy browsers acting like a drag weight on faster adoption, there have been some really fascinating experiments with CSS3 properties and...
View ArticleSome more tips on learning JavaScript
In February 2011 Think Vitamin published an article written by me entitled Tips on Learning JavaScript. In 2010 I had added learning JavaScript to my “things to do list” for that year, and the Think...
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Resources for learning CodeIgniter
It could be argued that CodeIgniter is the most popular Open Source PHP framework around. It certainly features heavily on developer and designer sites like Forrst. Written in OOP code it takes a...
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Using advanced JavaScript array methods
Advanced is an adjective used subjectively here because you may be already using the methods below on a regular basis, but in by using the term advanced I am referring to JavaScript from versions 1.6...
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Using PHP to parse XML, RSS or CVS files which are compressed with ZIP or GZIP
Reading and creating XML, RSS and CVS files is essential knowledge when it comes to using PHP because they are all formats commonly used for a wide range of purposes. I'm just in the middle of creating...
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Checking for unique values in a multidimensional array
There are lots of different solutions to this problem posted on forums all over the web. But here is a very simple solution I came up with the other day. Below was an array whose values were from a...
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Setting up Eclipse IDE for JavaScript and PHP development
Everybody has their own IDE of choice with Sublime Text seemingly the most popular at the moment. A good IDE should be solid, stable software with full features and UX which leaves you, the coder,...
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Using cookies instead of wp_localize_script()
Sometimes the most obvious solution isn't the one that comes to you first. wp_localize_script() is a wonderful little slice of Wordpress code that allows you to easily add PHP-created info into an...
View ArticleCentring elements horizontally and vertically with the CSS3 calc() function
Another month arrives and more CSS3 comes into play. March was witness to calc() being incorporated into the Webkit engine. I wrote back in January 2011 about the calc() function and stated it would be...
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:focus pseudo-class feature detection
I'm not quite sure whose idea the CSS3 :focus pseudo-class class was, but including it in the CSS spec was a minor act of ingenuity. When you view CSS-only animation then :focus is usually at the...
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Hide CSS in Internet Explorer 8 and below
There is, of course, an easy of way of targeting certain versions of Internet Explorer by using conditional comments. This allows you to separate your CSS into different files based on browser version....
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Penny Books launched, books for a penny À gogo
I'm pleased to announce the launch of a little side project of mine, Penny Books. It is a quirky book search engine that uses the Amazon API to find books which are on sale for one penny. This idea...
View ArticleUsing the Pomodoro technique for time management
It would be nice to be hyper-enthusiastic for every single job but the truth is that some coding jobs are tedious and the temptation of Twitter, Urban75, BBC news site etc. has a habit of overriding...
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Reflections on developing for Wordpress and Drupal
Both Wordpress and Drupal are widely used and respected by a legion of developers. Wordpress is far more popular than Drupal, but Drupal is rapidly maturing with Version 8 looking likely to be a real...
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