David James Whitely http://davidwhitely.com Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:33:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Detecting IE6 in jQuery http://davidwhitely.com/2010/07/detecting-ie6-in-jquery/ http://davidwhitely.com/2010/07/detecting-ie6-in-jquery/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:33:54 +0000 admin http://davidwhitely.com/?p=338 if ($.browser.msie && parseInt($.browser.version)< 7) {
//code goes here
}

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$(window).scroll(function() {
$('#elementName').css('top', $(this).scrollTop() + "px");
});

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From http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Calabi-Yau.png

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]]> http://davidwhitely.com/2010/01/cell-radiation/feed/ 0 Suckerfish Menus, Flash and wmode http://davidwhitely.com/2009/12/suckerfish-menus-flash-and-wmode/ http://davidwhitely.com/2009/12/suckerfish-menus-flash-and-wmode/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:26:16 +0000 admin http://davidwhitely.com/?p=317 So in some versions of IE, Suckerfish drop down menus show up behind Flash videos unless you add the WMODE parameters to the HTML code.

Add the following parameter to the OBJECT tag:
<param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”>
Add the following parameter to the EMBED tag:
wmode=”transparent”

]]> http://davidwhitely.com/2009/12/suckerfish-menus-flash-and-wmode/feed/ 0 BizDev 2.0 http://davidwhitely.com/2009/12/bizdev-2-0/ http://davidwhitely.com/2009/12/bizdev-2-0/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:38:11 +0000 admin http://davidwhitely.com/?p=310 Or Business Development 2.0. This idea falls into the “ask for forgiveness, not permission” style of work, which I personally subscribe to. It’s an interesting article, my favorite paragraph is in the end:

Traditional business development meant spending a lot of money on dry cleaning, animating your powerpoint, drinking stale coffee in windowless conference rooms and scouring the thesaurus looking for synonyms for “synergy”. Not to mention trying to get hopelessly overbooked people to return your email. And then after the deal was done, squabbling over who dealt with the customer service. Much, much better this way!

Article link here, from this article on Wordpress implementing the Twitter API.

]]> http://davidwhitely.com/2009/12/bizdev-2-0/feed/ 0 Add Mootool’s Squeezebox functionality to your Joomla template http://davidwhitely.com/2009/12/add-mootools-squeezebox-functionality-to-your-joomla-template/ http://davidwhitely.com/2009/12/add-mootools-squeezebox-functionality-to-your-joomla-template/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:55:43 +0000 admin http://davidwhitely.com/?p=297 Joomla uses Mootools as a Javascript framework by default, and also has a light-box effect called Squeezebox built in by default. It’s quite easy to add Squeezebox functionality to your Joomla template.
In the index.php file of your template, find the head tag and insert this code:

<?php JHTML::_('behavior.mootools'); ?>

That will output this code:


<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $this->baseurl ?>/media/system/js/modal.js"> </script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $this->baseurl ?>/media/system/css/modal.css" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
// <!--
window.addEvent('domready', function() {
SqueezeBox.initialize({});
$$('a.modal').each(function(el) {
el.addEvent('click', function(e) {
new Event(e).stop();
SqueezeBox.fromElement(el);
});
});
});
// -->
</script>

Then make some xhtml such as this:

<p><a class="modal" rel="{handler:'iframe',size:{x:840,y:550}}" href="http://google.com">TEST</a></p>

You should see a popup with the google homepage in it. Checkout the Squeezebox page for more info.

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Templates:
Bulletproof Templates – Joomla Blank Skeleton Templates
Sandbox by Plaintext – Wordpress Blank Skeleton Template

jQuery:
Visual jQuery
jQuery API

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From http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Orthographic_projection_centred_over_Easter_Island.png

]]> http://davidwhitely.com/2009/12/orthographic-projection-centered-over-easter-island/feed/ 0 Adventures in Aspell – Installing and Configuring for Dreamhost http://davidwhitely.com/2009/12/adventures-in-aspell-installing-and-configuring-for-dreamhost/ http://davidwhitely.com/2009/12/adventures-in-aspell-installing-and-configuring-for-dreamhost/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:32:47 +0000 admin http://davidwhitely.com/?p=279 I’m working on a special project involving Aspell, here are some instructions for updating Aspell on your Dreamhost server.
This page from Dreamhost has proven to be extremely useful.
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.60.6.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/en/aspell6-en-6.0-0.tar.bz2
tar -xvzf aspell-0.60.6.tar.gz
tar -xvjf aspell6-en-6.0-0.tar.bz2
mkdir usr
cd aspell-0.60.6
./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
make
make install
make clean
cd ..
Then
nano .bash_profile
Add Aspell to your path:
PATH=$HOME/usr/bin/:$HOME/usr/share/:$PATH
export PATH
Save changes, logout and back in to see changes to your path.
Then
cd aspell6-en-6.0-0
./configure
make
make install
make clean
cd ..

That’s it! Type “aspell -v” to make sure you’re now running version 6, not 3, which is what Dreamhost has by default. Disregard what it says about changing spellchecker.php, it’s still necessary to force utf-8 (at least in my tests). Now it’s time to start hacking Speller Pages.

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