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Yet another list of ‘extremely useful’ jQuery plugins

A while back, I posted an article listing the jQuery plugins I use most often in my projects. Thanks to a great developer community, new plugins are constantly being created and hence, my original list has changed somewhat. Listed below, are those plugins I find most useful in that

Published on Jan 8, 2010, 7:10 am

Advanced radio button grouping with jQuery

I was asked to do something rather interesting with some radio button inputs the other day. I haven’t come across this particular problem before and google didn’t return anything helpful, so I decided to share what I came up with. First, the scenario We have a standard form with

Published on Nov 18, 2009, 10:51 am

Mobile App Development – Snake Guide for South Africa

I took my first foray into mobile app development recently. Using Origo IDE I was pleasantly surprised at how easy this particular framework makes development for the Symbian (Nokia) environment. Including the initial learning curve, it took me all of 5 days to complete the app in question,

Published on Nov 17, 2009, 8:13 am

Howto: Create custom thumbnails from Flutter image fields

If you’ve worked with Flutter / Fresh pages (wordpress plugin) before, you’ll know that you can use the supplied get_image() function to insert the relevant image field into your template. The problem however is that these images are generated automatically during the upload process and thus conform to the

Published on Sep 24, 2009, 10:21 am

Simplifying Flutter duplicate groups and fields

Flutter or Fresh-pages is a really handy plugin for WordPress. With it, you can quite easily create custom write panels, fields and groups of information. Having worked with this plugin quite extensively recently, I have encountered a few issues which have proved somewhat frustrating, dealing with duplicate groups or

Published on Sep 21, 2009, 10:21 am

Circular Image Slide with jQuery

A friend of mine asked me to write a little script for him the other day that would do the following : 1. Slide a list of images from right to left across the screen. 2. When an image moves out of view on the left, it should get

Published on Apr 25, 2009, 10:41 am

6 jQuery snippets you can use to manipulate select inputs

When it comes to manipulating the DOM, fewer elements are more tiresome than the good old select input. Fortunately for us, jQuery makes what was once a headache, a walk in the park. Listed below are 6 snippets which should make manipulating those selects more pleasant than say, pulling

Published on Mar 29, 2009, 9:01 am

How to validate Date of Birth with jQuery

In a recent project I had to implement what’s commonly referred to as a Legal Drinking Age (LDA) page. Basically what needs to happen is that the user has to enter their date of birth and thus ‘confirm’ that they are of a legal drinking age for their respective

Published on Mar 9, 2009, 11:27 am

Still alive and kicking

Wow, what a crazy 6 weeks I’ve just had. Probably the busiest, most stressful and yet most rewarding stretch of my entire working career. With that said, this is just a quick note to tell anyone out there who actually cares that I’m still alive, still kicking and will

Published on Feb 17, 2009, 2:06 pm

jQuery plugin : jqPageFlow - scrolling pagination made easy

jqPageFlow Simply put, this plugin makes the scrolling pagination found on sites like dzone.com and Google Reader easy to implement on your site. A working demo is viewable here This is of course all configurable, and intended to be used on an automatically generated page using a backend script

Published on Jan 18, 2009, 1:12 pm

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