Blog

Thoughts, opinions, tutorials and any other stuff we could think of

gotomeeting-api

GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar PHP API Class

February 11th

GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar are two great services provided by Citrix for holding online meetings and webinars. The popular platforms have released their API to enable web applications to integrate with their services.

Read post »
custom-checkboxes-with-jquery

Custom Radio Buttons with jQuery

January 13th

I think every front-end developer had to deal with the situation when a certain design for a website or application includes a special design for general form elements like select boxes, checkboxes and radio buttons.

Read post »
wordpress-batch-user-metadata

WordPress Batch Insert User Metadata

January 9th

I’ve recently created a batch insert user metadata function on a WordPress project. The idea is just to create one MySQL insert instead of multiple add_user_meta because we want to keep the MySQL calls to the minimum.

Read post »
watir

Automated Tests For Ruby With Watir

January 7th

Watir, pronounced water, an abbreviation for Web-browser Automated Tests In Ruby, is an open-source family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and maintain. It is simple and flexible.

Read post »
jquery-inline-edit

Tiny Inline Edit Plugin For jQuery

December 31st

Inline edit capability can be a very nice addition to any UI, here is a lightweight, inline-edit function I wrote with jQuery while working on a project.

Read post »
wp-user-query

7 Search Patterns Using WP_User_Query

December 24th

WP_User_Query is a class that allows querying WordPress database tables ‘wp_users’ and ‘wp_usermeta’. The class introduce in Version 3.1 and it deprecated the WP_User_Search class. It is a convenience class which functions almost exactly the same as WP_Query only for users.

Read post »
rainbow

How To Test Your Contrast Ratio

December 19th

Most of my daily tasks are related to development and less purely design work, but every once in a while I feel that need of creativity and the urge of designing something new. On my latest trip to Photoshop land I’ve re-learned the importance of contrast in design, especially when it comes web standards.

Read post »
jquery-blink

jQuery Blinking Text

December 17th

I recently worked on a project and one of the requests was to make some links to blink in and out, now if you’re like me you would go “Why on earth someone would like to do that?!”, well I have no idea but if one of these days you’ll bump into a client that wants a blink effect here’s a little jQuery function to make it happen.

Read post »