Light color fonts in inputs
When your site is on a dark background, the form fields might suffer from … eh, unreadability. Here’s an example with two, otherwise great, blog designs.
AJAX banner rotation
How to rotate banners without reloading the page.
Better time input
Played around with a javascript that parses time-like strings into javascript Date objects. This is an extension of the original Date parser script by Simon Willison.
DB-2-MDB2
Recently I had to move an existing project from using PEAR::DB to PEAR::MDB2 – the new database abstraction layer. I took notes on the parts of the code I needed to change, I hope they can benefit someone who’s doing the same.
Chicken Soup for the Programmer’s Soul
You have to check this new article by Paul Graham… “How to do what you love”
Running JSDoc on Windows
JSDoc is a Perl software that allows you to document your JavaScripts in a JavaDoc (and PHPDoc) style. This posts shows you how to install and use it on Windows.
phpBB old topics locker
A quick way to auto lock topics with last reply older than a month (for example) in a phpBB forum.
Car accident
Crashed the car two days ago… hit an electricity pole.
Hosted blog at wordpress.com
Wordpress.com was launched after a testing, pre-go-live period.
Found in translation
Today I found out that one of my posts on this blog (the “PHP image fun” one) was translated in Russian!
phpBB book review
New review of the phpBB book today. Interested in writing your own review?
XAJAX intro and more from Marco
Nice XAJAX intro (with working examples) and more from Marco.
The Invisible Ad
Launched TheInvisibleAd.com today. It’s my AJAX-ified version of the amazing Million Dollar Homepage.
Marquee search-engine spam
Stumbled upon an example of using the long-forgotten marquee tag to spam search engines.
Hacking the hacker’s (Paul Graham’s) page
This post shows how to use a javascript bookmarklet to make a page suitable for printing.
Nielsen’s list of blog usability issues and me
Jakob Nielsen posted his vision on the top 10 usability problems with blogs. As always, a fascinating read. See where this blog stands on those.
Everybody is gay, er… spammer
A spammer posts a joke in addition to his links in order to buy his place in a forum.
IE script tag problem
When calling external scripts, you cannot use the shorthand for the <script> tag, because you get a blank page in IE.
WebConsole – Take command (line) with AJAX
My article describing how to create a simple Javascript XMLHTTP application is now featured on SitePoint.
Audioslave live in Montreal
My ears are still bleeding form yesterday’s show.
CSS coding conventions
Some ideas on how to make CSS files more organized, easier to maintain and more semantic.
Pearl Jam live
Last week I went again to see Pearl Jam, my favourite band, live.
Texas hold’em
This post simply links to a Wikipedia article on texas holdem. It’s an effort to outlink a blog comment spammer. Please ignore.
Image fun
How to use GD lib to adjust brightness, contrast, gamma, to create a negative, noisy or grayscale image. And some more… The code provided in the posting is easy to extend with your own experiments.
