Category Archives: Web Development
A jQuery photobar using the Flickr API
Another demo showing a photo gallery compiled of my Flickr photosets. The photobar can be easily integrated onto the footer of any page, you just need a flickr api key, your user id and some jQuery skills. One aspect of … Continue reading
Using Session Variables in Javascript without Cookies
Until a fully implemented HTML5 spec comes along and solves everyone’s problems, there are still some tricky issues to be dealt with when trying to store data on the client side. And of course, html5 wont be of much help … Continue reading
How to pass parameters to a PHP file in a cron job
This is just a quick tip but it annoyed the bejaysus out of me for about an hour. I was running the job in the following format: 00*** test_file.php?a=1&b=2&c=3 But an error was getting thrown saying that the input file, … Continue reading
FOWA is coming to Dublin
The Future Of Web Apps conference is coming to Dublin for the first time in 2009 and they’re bringing some of the most talented people in the web industry with them. Speakers confirmed for the event so far include David … Continue reading
Yahoo Developer Network
I’ve never been Yahoo’s biggest fan in the past, but over the last few months I’ve been using their developer network almost on a daily basis. It’s full of great tips and guides for most of the main development languages … Continue reading
Blueprint CSS Framework
Lately it seems the word framework is being used all over the place, usually it’s in reference to a web development framework like Rails, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Django or even the javascript frameworks like JQuery and MooTools. So I can’t say that I was too surprised to hear that CSS Frameworks are becoming more mainstream. Hopefully this might even see CSS getting a bit more recognition from back-end developers. Continue reading
Symphony – Web Publishing System
The big noob is a website that I really like. It’s the blog for the guys that created virb and purevolume. The content on their site is managed by symphony, a customisable well designed web publishing system which I decided to have a look at. Continue reading