Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Avoiding flickering in jQuery when animating elements which contain Flash

jQuery slideToggle or slideDown will cause a Flash movie to flicker if the movie is inside the animated element. A short note on how to fix it.

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

External Links in New Window. Passive and with MooTools.

Sx All external links from the site should open in a new window. Do not want to write this on a link-by-link basis. Should be light and unobtrusive. Using MooTools. Dx We can easily know what domain the script lives on. Other domains are easily distinguished. Links come and go and are loaded in, sometimes, by [...]

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Mootools 1.2 Horizontal Accordion – the secret revealed

Sometimes the API docs are wrong. Since I couldn’t find out how to do it, I’ll post the secret here. To make the horizontal accordion work in Mootools 1.2 you have to specify a fixed width. The API docs say it is a Boolean, but it ain’t. It is what the plugin uses to determine [...]

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

New Site for Eclectic Edge Ensemble

Eclectic Edge got a gorgeous new website (http://www.eclecticedgeensemble.com/). Bully for them. I had built the version 1 a while ago and am glad to see they’re moving beyond my pretty limited design. Also, that Amanda Hankerson (http://www.amandahankerson.com)is a wonderful photographer. (She took the photos for the EEE site and has a great photo blog.)

Friday, February 27th, 2009

On abandoning the Zend Framework (for now)

So, I thought I’d give the Zend Framework a try. Please, keep in mind that this was a short trial and the real reason for leaving the framework was a specific unmet need for intermediate LDAP support. I plan on coming back to it and giving it a fuller run but I have to go [...]