In the first part of this series I showed how you could get the country of a visitor via his IP address. Now with this precious information, I’ll show you how to map the visitor visually on the world map using Google Maps.
Sample preview.
You must sign up for a Google Maps API key if you [...]
In this post I’ll show you how to create an expanding/collapsing menu like Slashdot left menu used to be, using the YUI library and Dav Glass YUI effects widget.
Preview of the script we are going to build.
The HTML markup for our menu is :
<div id="menu"><h1 id="menu-title">Menu</h1><div id="menu-links"><ul><li>Home</li><li>About</li><li>CSS</li></ul></div></div>
We use 2 div tags, one for holding the [...]
Since I had some problems with YUI slider, I decided to write a YUI-based numeric stepper that allows users to select values within a predefined range.
To instantiate the widget include the following files :
<!– CSS –>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stepper/stepper.css" />
<!– Dependencies –>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.5.2/build/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js"></script>
<!– Stepper source file –>
<script type="text/javascript" src="stepper/stepper-min.js"></script>
Then place your stepper in your [...]
Nowadays many people call themselves PHP programmers / web developers as soon as they know a bit of Frontpage or using Dreamweaver to generate the code for them. But are they really good web developers? Here’s my top 10 characteristics of good web developers, feel free to comment.
1. Ability to hand code
Instead of using an [...]
Since YUI 2.5.0 there’s the Cookie utility and at this time of posting, it’s still in beta version.
I’ll show you how we can use this simple utility to write a small javascript app.
The piece of code we will be writing, using the YUI library (my favorite), will allow users to increase/decrease their font size for [...]
Before starting work everyday and while waiting Eclipse (PDT) to patiently build my projects, here are my favorite websites I must visit ranked in my personal order of preference :
http://del.icio.us/popular/ - Helps me find interesting links for day-to-day work such as a new javascript framework, php tips/tricks, etc. Prefer it over digg
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/ - Get the [...]
It has been 1 month since www.orange.mu was launched and overall I’am quite satisfied with the new portal, compared to the old Servihoo one.
The main features which I’am very satisfied, from a technical point of view :
built on bleeding edge technology (does anyone hear memcache here ;-))
almost all pages are valid XHTML 1.0 transitional (i [...]
Een schip op het strand is een baken in zee.
[A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.]
- old dutch proverb
Steve Yegge, one of my developer idols, has accomplished quite a feat, demonstrated at Foo Camp; porting Rails over to Javascript. However, this task took him 6 months and 2000 hours, according to [...]