by Phil Morle | Feb 19, 2012 | Code
Fearing change is normal and it is also a valid emotion. Within system administration, change appears in the form of upgrading. Upgrading is often closely followed by breaking. Deploying a bleeding edge Ubuntu distribution with only 18 months until End of Life can be...
by Phil Morle | Feb 13, 2012 | Code
Social Networking: The use of a dedicated Web site to communicate informally with other members of the site, by posting messages, photographs, etc. Hacker: An enthusiastic and skillful computer programmer or user. Combine the two and you’ve got a social hacker,...
by Phil Morle | Jan 16, 2012 | Code
There is quite a lot to learn from spammers when it comes to landing pages. Check this one out: http://paleorecipebook.com/ The structure goes as follows: #1 Hook #2 Value (bullet points) #3 More value (details) #4 WOW! BONUS! #5 OMG! More bonuses. #6 Did I mention...
by Phil Morle | Dec 2, 2011 | Code
As appealing as Test Driven Development (TDD) appears, in the workplace, I have yet to be able to see it successfully applied consistently. According to the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, effective habits are defined by the intersection of 3 components;...
by Phil Morle | Nov 2, 2011 | Code
I’ve had the idea for a countdown timer for a while now. So the last couple of weeks I’ve been plugging away at one. I have sorted out some interesting issues with it. Basically keeping time with Javascript is a pain but I think I’ve solved it. Here...
by Phil Morle | Oct 14, 2011 | Code
Last week I wrote a plugin to do tabbing navigation. I’ve written this javascript so many times in the past, I can’t believe I haven’t turned it into a plugin til now. What came out was the fastest plugin I have ever written. I think it took me about...
by Phil Morle | Oct 13, 2011 | Code
A couple of wees ago I wrote a piece of javascript for the new Wooboard interface. The problem was that there was a tabbing navigation that needed to support many more items than could fit in the screen. This navigation changed depending on what challenges were set....
by Phil Morle | Oct 7, 2011 | Code
I wrote this plugin ages ago, but I recently upgraded it to work on optgroups, so I think now it’s worthy of being published. Many times I have received designs that have fancy select boxes. All UI developers know about this problem. Designers seem to think that...
by Phil Morle | Sep 23, 2011 | Code
Over the last couple of days I have turned Albie’s now infamous 404 page for wooboard into a bonified jQuery plugin. It’s Friday afternoon and I don’t have the time to prepare the code properly, so I’m giving you a sneak peek of it with a demo....
by Phil Morle | Sep 20, 2011 | Code
I have just spent the last two days working on our UI framework here at Pollenizer. One thing that seems to come up a lot is the need for googlemap widgets. Here at Pollenizer our philosophy is to get product out into the marketplace as quickly as possible. So, as a...
by Phil Morle | Aug 19, 2011 | Code
Today I’m publishing my gallery popup plugin. It basically is light-box with a gallery option. I’ve used this in heaps of projects and it has gone through many iterations. I’m on version 1.7 and have just added an ajax component. It has a number of...
by Phil Morle | Aug 16, 2011 | Code
Today I am presenting a navigation plugin. This plugin is great as it handles navigation menus that can run infinitely deep, even on IE6. It add classes to any parent of a list, which means that you can style those lists that have children differently to show it. The...
