If case you haven’t noticed – YUI Charts hit the streets. As with everything new, it’s best shown and understood by example. So here’s the simplest example of using a pie chart. Basically I took the example from the YUI page, changed all the paths to point to yahooapis.com (where YUI is hosted for free) […]
I know my fellow Qu̩b̩cois are going to smile on this one: Faith Tabernacle РAssembly of God Great name for a band playing for example covers of Faith No More
A javascript by Christian Heilmann that takes a table from your page and constructs the URL to request a chart from Google APIs. Slick and accessible. Check it out.
Look what Santa brought this year: A Starcaster by Fender! (Not to be confused with Stratocaster.) Packed with an amp and everything. Looking forward to posting some recordings in 2008!
… by Tenni Theurer. Here’s the piece on YDN (Yahoo Developer Network). Read and adopt. 😀
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon Project is what happens while you’re busy with strategy, planning or priotitizing. – Stoyan Stefanov And I’m not even talking about other equally amusing activities such as updating your Gantt charts, percent task completion and WBS 😀
Just noticed there have been some changes on the PEAR site. Check it out – no nav menu on the left, spacier for the main content… http://pear.php.net/
In today’s busy schedules there’s less and less time to give love to our favorite open source projects. Luckily though, there’s January 1st when you’re supposed to relax (or suffer the consequences of partying on Dec 31st). Anyway, today I found the time to fix two bugs in Text_Highlighter and also include the patch from […]
Netflix is a great service, it’s a shame they don’t seem to provide any APIs. Oh, well, we’ll have to resort to other means of extracting data. A little javascript to count how many movies you’ve rented: document .getElementById(‘returned_movies’) .getElementsByTagName(‘tbody’)[0] .getElementsByTagName(‘tr’) .length You can put this code in a bookmarklet or simply type in the […]
Writing readable code means proper indentation. Usually you’d tab (or use 2 or 4 or 3 spaces) after every curly bracket. Something like this: if (true) { // indent if (false) { // another indent // and some more } } Same goes when you have a bigger hash/object sort of thing: var memememe = […]
David Barnes, who works for my publisher Packt Publishing, has started a blog: “How to write computer books”. Great stuff in there. If you write or intend to write a book, a blog or anything technical, it’s a great addition to your RSS reader. Inspired by this quote from Mark Twain, yesterday I went through […]
One of the hidden perks about working at Yahoo! is that you get to interact with a lot of smart people, and even some celebrities in the web dev profession. Rasmus Lerdorf, Douglas Crockford, YUI guys, the list is way too long… Those couple of weeks I had the pleasure of working closely with Steve […]
Take the time to watch this. http://www.storyofstuff.com/ (via Phil) Consumption and energy and recycling and generally destroying our planet are all topics that are increasingly interesting to me. Currently reading “Why we buy” to better understand the enemy within 😉
Dustin Diaz has posted on his blogs (what’s a blog? there were no blogs in good old web 1.0) “7 hottest web 1.0 techniques”. While those are nice and highly recommended, let me in on a few little secrets. 1. script language=JavaScript When including a script into a page, you need to specify the language. […]
Your favourite blogger (yeps, that would be me) – patched! It’s been 48 hours since my hernia surgery. Don’t worry about me, “everything’s cool, everything’s smooth”. I can hardly walk and can’t lift anything over 10 lbs (4.5 kg), but it’s all fine. This morning had a great idea for a song, I can almost […]
Just updated my blogroll (long overdue). It was very easy – Google reader exports subscriptions in OPML, WordPress imports. Then using my OPML-to-HTML tool I was able to quickly produce the following list in HTML. So here’s what I read, enjoy, recently I’ve added quite a few of the smart fellow Yahoo!s: Stoyan subscriptions in […]
This post is a demo of what the imagefilter() PHP function can do for you. The Original imagefilter() called with different filter constants Filter: IMG_FILTER_BRIGHTNESSCode to reproduce: <?php $image = imagecreatefrompng(‘nathalie.png’); imagefilter($image, IMG_FILTER_BRIGHTNESS, 5); imagepng($image, ‘img_filter_brightness_5.png’); imagedestroy($image); ?> Filter: IMG_FILTER_BRIGHTNESSCode to reproduce: <?php $image = imagecreatefrompng(‘nathalie.png’); imagefilter($image, IMG_FILTER_BRIGHTNESS, 50); imagepng($image, ‘img_filter_brightness_50.png’); imagedestroy($image); ?> Filter: IMG_FILTER_BRIGHTNESSCode to reproduce: <?php $image = imagecreatefrompng(‘nathalie.png’); imagefilter($image, IMG_FILTER_BRIGHTNESS, 100); imagepng($image, ‘img_filter_brightness_100.png’); imagedestroy($image); […]
Here are some reviews of the places I visited during my Maui trip, (the markup is in hReview microformat, using the hReview creator) Breathtaking view from the volcano top Nov 11, 2007 by Stoyan place The Haleakala summit ★★★★★ I come from Bulgaria, where you can visit the highest summit on the Balkan Peninsula. Well, […]
Aloha, I’m back from a family vacation in Maui, HI, feeling rejuvenated after having fun on some nice beaches with crystal water, seen an ex-volcano, sunsets, etc. An email from PHP Quebec was in my inbox saying I’ll be speaking at the 2008 PHP Conference in Montreal. Isn’t that great?! I’ll have a chance to […]
I’ve never been into crime fiction. I mean I’ve read The Hound of the Baskervilles, but that’s about it. I like Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, looove Kurt Vonnegut, enjoyed On the Road, Catch-22… So it came as a surprise even to me when I started reading Raymond Chandler and actually enjoying it. The thing is […]
Some smart guys picture the distinction of content (HTML), presentation (CSS) and behaviour (JavaScript) as a three-legged stool. This is totally fine, but can’t we draw a more heroic picture of today’s Front-end developer? I found the image here, if anyone knows the original author, let me know so I can give proper credit. BTW, […]
Another one from the “this is not a syntax error” department. The front-end developer is a strange beast who has to jiggle to and fro and code in several languages literally at the same time – javascript, html, css, php or some other server side language, some SQL dialect… No wonder that sometimes we make […]
Here’s a little bookmarklet I came up with, I called “SAT”, stands for “Save AnyThing (for offline reading)”. It uses Google Gears and works like this: you’re about to go offline (maybe boarding a plane) and want to catch up on some reading you visit any page you click the SAT bookmaklet it saves all […]
