Posted By: Rydal Williams | posted @ Saturday, August 14, 2010 8:33 PM |
JQuery mobile not to be confused with JQTouch is now available, and I have to say its looking very promising. If you are a big JQuery fan like me and you are interested in build one or more UI for a mobile platform then look no further – the new JQuery Mobile is Touch-Optimized Web Framework for Smartphones & Tablets.
jQuery mobile framework takes the "write less, do more" mantra to the next level: Instead of writing unique apps for each mobile device or OS, the jQuery mobile framework will allow you to design a single highly branded and customized web application that will work on all popular smartphone and tablet platforms.
Posted By: Rydal Williams | posted @ Sunday, August 08, 2010 3:33 AM |
While working on my upcoming cool project, I wanted a JavaScript function that will perform an Ellipsis, bare in mind that I usually use C# and already have a .NET method that will do just that. However, in this case since my web application is 90% JS, I figured I could just do that client side. Here is what I came up with, I just wrote this 5 minutes ago, so use at your own risk.
Ellipsis (plural ellipses; or "three little points of suspension"; from the Greek: ἔλλειψις, élleipsis, "omission") is a mark or series of marks that usually indicate an intentional omission of a word in the original text.
String.prototype.ellipsisText = function(location, maxCharacters) {
var text = this;
if (this.length > 0 && this.length > maxCharacters) {
if (typeof (location) == 'undefined') location = 'end';
switch (location) {
case 'center':
var center = (maxCharacters / 2);
text = this.slice(0, center) + '...' + this.slice(-center);
break;
case 'end':
text = this.slice(0, maxCharacters - 3) + '...';
break;
}
}
return text;
}
Posted By: Rydal Williams | posted @ Thursday, August 05, 2010 1:56 PM |
from last.fm
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /music?
Disallow: /widgets/radio?
Disallow: /show_ads.php
Disallow: /affiliate/
Disallow: /affiliate_redirect.php
Disallow: /affiliate_sendto.php
Disallow: /affiliatelink.php
Disallow: /campaignlink.php
Disallow: /delivery.php
Disallow: /music/+noredirect/
Disallow: /harming/humans
Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders
Disallow: /harm/to/self
Allow: /
Posted By: Rydal Williams | posted @ Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:17 PM |
In my search for an awesome light weight tooltip, I can across these and a whole lot more, figured I’ll post them and save you the work. I didn’t take the time to review them so its all on you.
- Tipsy is a jQuery plugin for creating a Facebook-like tooltips effect based on an anchor tag's title attribute - http://onehackoranother.com/projects/jquery/tipsy/
- ColorTip is a jQuery Tooltip Plugin - http://tutorialzine.com/2010/07/colortips-jquery-tooltip-plugin/
- clueTip - The clueTip plugin allows you to easily show a fancy tooltip when the user's mouse hovers over (or, optionally, clicks on) any element you designate in your script. If the element includes a title attribute, its text becomes the heading of the clueTip. - http://plugins.learningjquery.com/cluetip/#getting-started
- Simple tooltip - http://dev.mariusilie.net/content/simple-tooltip-jquery-plugin
- Orbital Tooltip - The concept behind the Orbital Tooltip is to allow more flexibility to developers needing more specific positioning for their tooltips. With this jQuery plugin, you can position a tooltip around any element in a 360 degrees around it - http://www.userfirst.com/our-blog/2008/12/01/orbital-tooltip/
- BsTip - http://benchsketch.com/bquery/index.html
- Simpletip - Simpletip is a plugin for the popular jQuery JavaScript library. It allows you to create tooltips with ease on any element on the page using the power of jQuery's selectors and event management. The tooltips can be static, dynamic, or even loaded through AJAX with a variety of different visual effects. - http://craigsworks.com/projects/simpletip/
- jQuery plugin: Tooltip -http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-tooltip/
- jQuery TOOLS tooltip - http://flowplayer.org/tools/tooltip/index.html
- Popup Bubble: - http://www.dvq.co.nz/web-design/create-a-jquery-popup-bubble-effect/
- vTip - http://www.vertigo-project.com/projects/vtip
- qTip is an advanced tooltip plugin for the ever popular jQuery JavaScript framework. - http://craigsworks.com/projects/qtip/
- BeautyTips is a jQuery tooltips plugin which uses the canvas drawing element in the HTML5 spec to dynamically draw tooltips (sometimes called "talk bubbles" or "help balloons") associated with a html element on the page. - http://www.lullabot.com/files/bt/bt-latest/DEMO/index.html
- TinyTips - http://www.mikemerritt.me/demos/tt-1-1/index.html
Posted By: Rydal Williams | posted @ Tuesday, May 25, 2010 8:32 AM |
My company (Benchmark Brands, Inc.) is currently looking for a superb user interface developer. Here is a summary of the job.
Reporting to the VP, Creative Director, the Marketing Communications/ Copy Manager will be responsible for overseeing the development of marketing communications, promotional communications, direct response product copy, and rich media that support the Brand’s mission as the Comfort Footwear and Foot Health authority. You will manage a team of 6 (copywriters, editors and proofreader), writing promotional and benefit oriented product copy for the Foot Smart print catalog(17 events per year), the FootSmart.com website, FootSmart campaign e-mails as well as editorial content for FootSmart.com that drives Social Media and SEO efforts. Content must be compelling and embody strong direct marketing fundamentals, effectively communicating the Brand story, as well as features and benefits of a product that present the Brand effectively to our target audience of baby boomers and seniors. The Marketing Communications/Copy Manager will be heavily involved in creative concepting and will be hands on in leading their team in collaborating with Catalog Marketing, Internet Marketing and Merchandising Teams in footwear, hosiery/socks and health products to ensure the preservation and cohesiveness of our brand and style.
Contact me if you are interested or post a comment here.
Posted By: Rydal Williams | posted @ Tuesday, May 25, 2010 8:31 AM |
My company (Benchmark Brands, Inc.) is currently looking for a superb network operations system administrator. Here is a summary of the job.
The Operations Systems Administrator provides direct and on-call support for Windows Networking, Windows Active Directory, Cisco devices, Exchange Server, MS SQL and MS Office environments. The Operations Systems Administrator is responsible for the day-to-day end user support, including hardware support, software support and copier/printer troubleshooting. The position also requires LAN/WAN/VPN Connectivity troubleshooting and Linux Thin clients. The position requires excellent troubleshooting skills and attention to detail. The Operations Systems Administrator will be responsible for project planning, tracking, and communication. Strong communication skills are required for this position.
Contact me if you are interested or post a comment here.
Posted By: Rydal Williams | posted @ Tuesday, May 25, 2010 8:29 AM |
My company (Benchmark Brands, Inc.) is currently looking for a superb user interface developer. Here is a summary of the job.
Reporting to the Director, Internet Store Operations, the User Interface Developer I will be responsible for coding website and email designs on all major browsers and email clients. The individual we seek will be well versed with major graphics and HTML editors along with the latest front end coding techniques used to optimize designs for the Internet. You will work closely with multiple departments including Web Development, Creative and User Experience to ensure that the execution of designs are rendered as a seamless experience for our customers.
Contact me if you are interested or post a comment here.
Posted By: Rydal Williams | posted @ Thursday, April 15, 2010 10:23 PM |
If you are having problems as I was with the App_Data folder particularly will publishing content other than databases that are located in that special folder then here is the solution. Although, you may include any ordinary file as part of the project, visual studio does not copy it to the publish folder because it does not know what it is. I created a BinaryTap database – my key value store and saved it into the App_Data and executed a project published command and I noticed the database file itself wasn’t copied. After research here and there, it turns out you have to let Visual Studio know that “file A” needs to be part of the publishing package by indicating that its content. To do so, you bring up the properties window of that file and select “Content” as the “Build Action” and viola!
Posted By: Rydal Williams | posted @ Monday, April 05, 2010 12:00 AM |
Here is a simple way to get the week number given a certain date and time.
int week = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Calendar.GetWeekOfYear(
dt, System.Globalization.CalendarWeekRule.FirstFourDayWeek, DayOfWeek.Sunday);
Posted By: Rydal Williams | posted @ Saturday, March 13, 2010 3:37 PM |
For some unknown reason you can’t do a TryParse on nullable types or should I say the out parameter of a TryParse can not be nullable? For example this just won’t work.
DateTime? dt;
DateTime.TryParse("12/12/2010", out dt);
Error 4 The best overloaded method match for 'System.DateTime.TryParse(string, out System.DateTime)' has some invalid arguments
The solution or workaround is to use two variables to accomplish the goal, here is an example.
DateTime? dt1;
DateTime dt2;
dt1 = DateTime.TryParse("12/12/2010", out dt2) ? dt2 : (DateTime?)null;
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