flowplayer is an Open Source (GPL 3) video player for the web. Allows you to easily embed video streams into your web pages. While it’s easy to integrate and very powerful, occasionally it may give you headaches especially with cross-browser compatibilities. The most basic configuration looks like this: <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/flowplayer-3.... Read more »
That’s right, I’m convinced this is the way forward. That’s how our kids or grandchildren will learn. Amazing! Khan Academy... Read more »
Just launched. TK Maxx and Red Nose Day campaign applications. Facebook quiz Fun quiz to find out your perfect Red Nose Day t-shirt. View site Website application Upload you photo with Flash uploader, resize it and pan it around with JavaScript then save your results with PHP. View site... Read more »
Very nice infographic by http://jeffwongdesign.blogspot.com/... Read more »
I woke up today, looked out the window and saw a rather not every day view in London 🙂... Read more »
I’m not going to write about whether I think mod_pagespeed is good or not, is it suitable for your website, why you should use it or not. I’ll focus only on installation and configuration. Since you’re here and still reading I assume you want to speed up your website with Google’s mod_pagespeed. If you’... Read more »
Update: Yahoo has since closed down this service. Below script will no longer work. A very simple PHP script to get almost live currency exchange rates from Yahoo Finance. I’m saying "almost" as as far as I know Yahoo updates it with some minor delay. $from = 'GBP'; $to = 'USD'; $url = 'http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?... Read more »
In my last project I needed a function in JavaScript that will execute itself as soon as it’s ready. My first idea was something like that: // declare function function myFunction() { alert('Hello world!'); } // run it when DOM is ready with help of jQuery $(document).ready(function() { myFunction(); }); but in the back of my mind I knew there is... Read more »
Recently I’ve been working on a project with HTML5's <video> tag event handling and I needed to check if an element exists in the array. Quick googling resulted in neat native JavaScript method Array.indexOf. It returns the first index at which a given element can be found in an array, or -1 if it is not... Read more »
How to make a div with multiple borders? Usual approach is to create a div with border then add another div inside that one with different border. We end up with lots of divs inside of other divs. If there only was an easier way to do it in CSS without the need of more divs... There is! :before and... Read more »
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