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On the Bookshelf: MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide

Wed 02/10/2010 in Coding, JavaScript

In nowadays frontend development JavaScript spans from rich interactions to animations, however we cannot rely on the native language’s methods to implement everything we need in a smart and time-effective way.

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UI Fundamentals for Programmers [video]

Mon 10/05/2009 in Internet, UI/UX

A cool presentation about User Interface best practices to keep interaction clear and direct, and patterns to think and design interfaces from a user/ customer perspective.

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Using multiple templates’ overrides in Joomla 1.5 modules

Sun 09/20/2009 in Coding, PHP

Step by step tutorial on adding a custom joomla module parameter type to apply different template’s overrides on a module in a per-instance style with minumum hacks.

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CRUDités: PHP5 class for MySQL database

Tue 07/07/2009 in Coding, PHP, Projects

CRUDités is a set of handy methods to quickly manage many operations of writing, storing and deleting from and to MySQL databases

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Moving to Mint: goodbye to the star

Mon 07/06/2009 in Ramblings

I’ve left the glossy star of Mandriva for a greener and Moijto friendly distribution called Mint

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Introducing Bicycle 1.2: a lightweight JavaScript library

Mon 06/15/2009 in Coding, JavaScript, Projects

Bicycle is a lightweight and efficient small library for JavaScript development featuring basic shortcuts and a full wrapper for events, AJAX and form handling

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Update: Use MooTools v1.2.x in Joomla! 1.5

Sun 06/07/2009 in Coding, Internet, JavaScript, PHP

This is an updated version of the code to switch Mootools from 1.11 to 1.2 in Joomla 1.5

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Joomla 1.5: Filter mambots and plugins’ codes in PDF and print view

Tue 05/19/2009 in Coding, PHP

Here is an effective and hack-free way to remove mambots and plugins’ codes from your content in PDF and print view.

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Plesk + AWStats and 404 error on /plesk-stat/webstat/

Mon 05/11/2009 in Internet

An effective way to solve the AWStats 404 Not found error on Plesk update

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Fixing PDF button error with SEF in Joomla 1.5

Fri 04/17/2009 in Coding, PHP

One of the weirdest error in Joomla 1.5 is that just turning SEF on makes PDF button stop working in content articles.
This happens with both system and 3rd party components.

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