The last thing web devs need is another toggle plugin. But this was developed for sites that already run jQuery UI and don’t want the extra bloat of yet another library. It draws upon the theme .ui-slider for the look and feel, and can be applied to elements with two child options. …
Paul Irish wrote a pretty chill script back in 2009 for detecting when a user becomes inactive. It’s quite ingenious in its simplicity, as the best things usually are. What wasn’t explained fully is the ways in which this can be used to deliver a better user experience. It’s fantastic for …
My new personal site is live! It’s just a little micro-site tying together a range of social media websites. There’s some fancy coding behind the scenes that predicts where I’m going to be at any given time, because we’re all a walking bell curve. It’s good to get it out the door, because …
minimalmac : warbyparker : Ten years of evolution: 2011 iPod vs. 2001 iPod. Progress.
I’ve just pushed some major changes to my front end development guidelines to the public site. I spent a lot of time on this update, and it shows. I’ve added new content and improved old. I’ve ditched my own slap-dash styling in favour of the Twitter Bootstrap with some of my own personal …
I’m so happy I received this little nugget for Christmas! It’s a tidy little book written by Matt Hurst of The Humble Vintage targeted at Melbourne’s casual cyclists. It’ll give you some background on the origins of the humble bicycle both here and overseas. It then takes you on a tour of …
I’ve just pushed some pretty hefty changes to the jQuery.Gantt project I’ve been developing with lately. I tried some other Gantt libraries, but they were either dependant upon ExtJS, no longer maintained or just didn’t play nicely with my pre-existing code. I settled on jQuery.Gantt, but there …
Tools like these make it more and more exciting to be a front end dev every day. webkitbits : Paul Irish covers some of the impressive new Chrome Developer Tools. It’s no surprise he was named .net’s Developer of the Year
Dynamic Credit Card Type Selection - UX Lab 003 If you find yourself buying a lot of things online, or perhaps building a lot of eCommerce websites - you will have experienced a range of credit card forms. The good. The bad. The ugly. Some fields are required to pass security checks. Some …
Flash-free Google Analytics with Highcharts - UX Lab 002 The reliance upon Flash to produce the charting on Google Analytics has frustrated myself and other web devs for a while now. When Google announced a new premium package it appeared that they had spent some time overhauling their product. …