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If you follow me on twitter then you’ve probably heard about my clean out of old domains. Some are on sedo others may be a holding page. If the site is on sedo and you’re interested then please follow the online steps, most are open to offers. If it’s a holding page then please contact me stating domain name and offer :)

It’s been a long time coming but over the next couple of weeks you’ll be seeing quite a lot of changes going on. My website will be under going a big face lift.  With all this in mind, should you hit an error page then I can assure you that if you leave it 5 minutes and refresh all will be back to normal.  During this time I will be upgrading to the latest version of subtext of which I won’t be “tweaking” the admin area which i normally do. Not only am I hoping  to implement a new subtext skin...

jQuery Plugin – Fun with Query String Object I have been working on an internal application which uses ajax and modal popups so that the user/manager/administrator doesn’t need to navigate to different pages to do different actions.  While this looked the part and done everything it said on the tin I ran into a problem. When a user acknowledged an event that needs authorisation a email is sent to the appropriate manager asking for action.  This email needed to contain a link that when the manager clicked it, the appropriate section was shown. No point in re-inventing the...

In my previous post I outlined how easy it was to grab text from a label tag associated to a form input element. jQuery – Fun with Radio Button lists, checkboxes and labels I have quickly thrown together a demo page that shows a “tra la” aspect. All I have done here is added in a couple of styles, a new radio list for the colour selection and an express delivery option.  The green div shown above the colour radio button list has it’s background colour controlled by whatever colour the user selects. Change Background colour Add an...

Previously I have written about how to attach an onclick client event to a radio button list on databound and adding some flare to show what the user has selected. Add a javascript onclick event to a radio button list on databound Adding a Javascript onclick event to a Radio Button List Item on DataBound Pt 2 In this post I am going to use jQuery to attach the onclick events to a radio button list and to a group of checkboxes.    Looking at the picture above. When the user selects one...

Myself and Simone have been in discussions about creating a jQuery plugin for many months now.  With real life, time on both parts hasn’t been on our side. Simone has co-authored a MVC book entitled “Beginning ASP.NET MVC”. I’ve been busy with work, getting fit, holidays, and other projects (more details coming soon). We've both now managed to make a start on the plugin which resulted in me looking at unit testing frameworks for JavaScript. I was quite surprised to find the amount I did hence this short and sweet post. List of JavaScript testing frameworks QUnit -...

It's been a couple of weeks now since we arrived back on British soil after having a fantastic week in Borovets.  I have been very busy working on other projects during this time (hence no updates) these will come into the light in the next couple of weeks. We arrived in the shack they call Plovdiv airport.  For anyone who hasn't experienced this airport then you are truly missing an experience.  The airport itself can't handle masses and masses of people.  This was shown in the single baggage reclaim area whereby you couldn't move while waiting the 30 minutes for the...

For those who have never heard of "Whose line is it anyway" you're missing a great show.  I recently re-discovered it while at the gym on Five US and I am convinced that the US version is funnier?  The UK show has had such comedians as Stephen Fry, Caroline Quentin and Ardal O'Hanlon. The US version Whoopi Goldberg, Brad Sherwood and Jerry Springer. Not sure what it is but the US show has an edge I just can't grasp, maybe it's Drew Carey? One of my favourite clips from the show:  Lots more on youtube... An Idea! It would be a fantastic idea...

A couple of days ago I announced that we're heading back to Bulgaria in the next coming weeks and it's time for a revamp of the playlists.  While my podcasts haven't been that active I have been doing mixes offline which I might be posting up in the future.  Talking about podcasts it was good to see Simon aka One Phat Dj post another podcast entitled encore.  Lets hope that we can persuade him to do the best of 2008 :). Also Marc aka Dj Cruze has put up his Christmas edition podcast - sexy dancer. What other podcasts have I...

Having been to Pamporovo twice now and making the decision of never going back we've decided to give Borovets a try.  When initially at the travel agents we priced up a couple of resorts in France and Italy but being so soon and with Christmas coming up we opted for Borovets. After adding on the price of lift passes, board carriage etc it turned out to be a right bargain.  Most of the other holidays cost more without the lift pass at self catering so was a very easy decision. Photo courtesy of Simon Reip If anyone can...

Not long now before Santa is visiting all of the people that have been good this year ;)  This year has been a difficult year, full of ups and downs.  I hope that you all have a safe and fantastic Christmas. *picture source Terry Bain

Subtext 2.1 was officially released about 10 days ago. At the beginning of the week I tried to upgrade from 1.9.5 to 2.1 and I ran into a series of problems so reverted back. Tomorrow I am going to update my site to the latest version so I can use all the new features. Links regarding the release: Phil Haack - Subtext 2.1 released Simone Chiaretta - Subtext 2.1 released Also the Illacrimo skin I was working on is now finished on Andy's site.  He's constantly playing around with it but I will be putting...

Having dual monitors is now really a common element for any developer or designer.    I thought I would share some of the links I have collected in relation to backgrounds and applications that can make the dual experience better. Backgrounds http://www.dualmonitorbackgrounds.com http://www.csbmb.princeton.edu/~smcclure/dualmonitor.html http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/downloads/date/any/ http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/wallpaper/multidisplay/#order=9 http://www.dualscreenwallpaper.com/ http://www.3datadesign.com/gallery/eng/ http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/70-beautiful-dual-monitors-desktop-wallpapers/ Applications UltraMon – Lots of useful features. Display Fusion - Free Multi-Monitor Desktop Wallpaper Software. ...

A while back I had a conversation with Simone about subtext themes.  This conversation was along the lines of “have you seen any themes out on the world wide web that we should convert to subtext?”.  Being organised as I am the email with the outcome of this conversation got buried in amongst the masses, however, after getting organised last week this email emerged again and I am pleased to announce that one of the skins on the list is nearly complete.  As you can see from the title of this post the theme is called Illacrimo and was initially...

Over the last couple of weeks I have been doing alot of work on a UI for client/matter conception application at my work involving javascript and the almight framework jQuery.  I have done a couple of posts in relation to jQuery before: Subtext Galleries, using jQuery for funk Adding a Javascript onClick event to a Radio Button List Item on DataBound Adding a Javascript onClick event to a Radio Button List Item on DataBound Pt 2 Also my 1st ever patch to subtext project uses jQuery. After receiving countless emails...