Must Have Firefox Extensions

Over a developers time, you aquire a taste for the right tools. Some are more useful than others, and some you just can’t live without. Here are my minimum requirements for a suitable Firefox browser capable of developing and debugging …

Extend your capabilty

Ages ago when I was discovering the YUI Library, I stumbled upon Jack Slocum’s blog and his EXTension of the YUI. Back then, I tried to implement the library but there was very little documentation and I gave up in …

Change the maximum upload size with PHP

Depending on how you host your website (or application) there are different ways to change the PHP settings. In particular, the most asked about problem, changing the maximum upload size. There are 3 settings PHP uses that limit your uploading …

Ajax File Browser 3 Beta

Lately I’ve had some time to finally keep my promise to make a better AjaxFB. I’ve also moved the downloads to Sourceforge, in a hope to better keep a track of bugs and other support issues. The new version has …

YUI 2.2.0 Released

YAHOO have just released the 2.2.0 version of their famous YUI library. In actual fact, version 2.2.0 is really 0.12.2 They’ve changed their versioning, which will be much easier to follow. They’ve also included mega amount of extra features to …

Suckerfish HoverLightbox Redux

A new version of the Suckerfish HoverLightbox has been released. Check it out here.

How to use Gzip to load your site faster

Lately I’ve been reading various random articles about some browsers ability to deflate zipped webpages, so that there is less bandwidth and faster loading times for websites. Although this ability has been around for a while, it’s only been lately …

YUI Unobstrusive Javascript Validation

Ever since I started creating web forms, I have been implementing some sort of Javascript validation. This often involved a fair bit of Javascript attached to the onsubmit events of the forms. I was even using a Dreamweaver extension that …

How to make a Slide and Hide with Yahoo YUI

Javascript transitions are becoming more and more popular with the Web 2.0 sites. We simply couldn’t use an Ajax powered site without some sort of visual notifications, and although animation is not absolutely necessary the sites that do use it …

Ajax Loading Gif Generator

In my never ending quest to find things people have made to save me time, a simple Google search for a loading gif found this for me: http://www.ajaxload.info/ This is some seriously neat stuff. I’ll be visiting this site often.