As a web designer, I'm often asked to center content on a web page, vertically as well as horizontally. This is often referred to as 'the letterbox effect'. Back in the day, when we all used tables to mark up our pages, this was a pretty simple task.Read more
I've come across loads of different techniques to create a browser based drop shadow effect. Some use only CSS whilst others need the help of JavaScript, some are cross browser friendly, others are not!Read more
I'm sure many of you have had to do 'corporate reviews' at work. You know, you get given a form and are asked to grade yourself on various aspects of your job. You fill in your parts of the form and then give it to your employer who fills in the rest. After doing so, he probably photocopies it, gives back to you for reflection, and then proceeds to make some private notes on his copy.Read more
These days it i getting more and more common for people to use a lightweight webserver such as lighttpd or nginx as a frontend, and proxy to an Apache backend if they really need to.Read more
If you like to keep all your work under svn source control, you're probably going to also want to keep a backup of your svn repositories in case of a hardware failure or some other catastrophic event. svn comes with a utility to help you do this - svnsync, which we can use to keep a real-time, read only backup of our svn repositories.Read more
Wireframing is an important aspect of web development. A decent wireframe developed at the start of a project can really help to reduce development times further down the road.Read more
I have an 'unlimited' broadband connection from BT. So I used it to download some of my music off a server that I have in England, at the same time I was in the process of rebuilding a machine and so I had to download a lot of (free) software. I downloaded a few gigabytes, and now BT have throttled my connection, with an estimation of it being back to speed in 17 days time.Read more
Each year, thousands of people around
Ireland join Concern Worldwide in the Concern
Fast. During the Fast, people give up food for 24 hours and raise
as much money as they can for some of the world’s poorest people.Read more
I've been hearing a lot about CSS3 lately and I'm quite excited by some of it's new features, such as rounded corners, multiple backgrounds and opacity. But what I want to know is, when will it be ready to use?Read more
Drupal is set up fairly well for multilingual sites. However, it does make the assumption that each site version will be in a different language. It is quite feasible however, that there be two versions of a site in the same language. For example, A site which has a UK version, and a version for the Republic of Ireland. Both sites are written in English, but the content varies for each.Read more
Today's Drupal meetup in Ireland was, in my opinion, a huge success with a turnout of 70+ Drupalers with varying levels of Drupal experience. Surprisingly, almost half of the people who attended were complete newcomers, many of whom had never even installed Drupal!Read more
For the past year I have been running a full blown PC inside a virtual machine (vmware) in order to allow me to run Internet Explorer, Chrome and various other Windows based web browsers. Don't get me wrong, I have no desire to run Internet Explorer! But, as a web developer it's kind of a necessity.Read more
This weekend I took the time to get stuck into one of Packt Publishing's Drupal titles, Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery. In this book, Matt Butcher takes the reader through the basics of using JavaScript within Drupal themes and modules, with a heavy emphasis on the all popular jQuery library.
Rotor2.1 is out - Just a couple of months since the initial 2.0 release, and with a decent amount of in the field testing, The new Views based approach has gone down a treat, and I've had nothing but positive feedback.Read more
Drupal 6 is a world class, award-winning CMS (Content Management System). It is free to use, modify and distribute, as it is Open Source software, licensed under the GPL (General Public License). Drupal is perhaps one of the most powerful and extensible CMS systems, capable of powering everything from small personal blogs to large, high traffic community websites.Read more
I don't think many people have heard of Aptana's Jaxer. I only found it by pure chance, but once I started to read about it I was hooked. What a great idea - an ajax server that gives you the ability to write an entire ajax application in one language, Javascript.Read more
In recent times, a lot of general purpose javascript libraries have surfaced, making common javascript tasks a quick and easy to implement. To name a few, there is Script.aculo.us, Dojo and of course, Prototype. But, one of the most recent, and possibly the most powerful and flexible is jQuery.Read more
Color Scheme Designer 3 is neat little tool that can help you generate new and appealing colour schemes. It has a slick web based interface, a wide range of options and some really great hidden features.Read more
If you've ever tried creating an Ajax application, you've probably run into one of the most common problems that face Ajax developers. How do you get the JavaScript that's running in your clients browser to interact with your server-side scripts?Read more
I've been using Linux for several years now on various web servers, proxy servers, home servers and more, but I've only recently started using it on my personal laptop (unless you count Mac OS X as Linux - which it basically is in many ways).Read more
I had a great idea for a new webmaster resource last night - a live keyword analysis tool, one that checks keyword weights as you type. Only thing is, it's not a new at all. It's already been done and can be found at live-keyword-analysis.com/Read more
If you need to do syntax highlighting in your Drupal posts then geshifilter is the module you are looking for. However, if you also have FCKEditor enabled to give you WYSIWYG editing capabilities then you will need to do a little tweaking to get them to work well together.
It's been exactly one month since I first started CodeGobbler.com and I thought I'd share some statistics from my first month of semi-professional blogging.
The first month of CodeGobbler's online presence has been an interesting one, and I have heard nothing but positive feedback from around the blogosphere. It's been a month about trying things out and exploring new ground.Read more
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