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Review: Wordpress 2.9 e-Commerce Guide

Tue 07/13/2010 in Internet, PHP

Ever imagined to use Wordpress as an e-commerce system? Well, after reading this highly recommended guide i’d give it a try!

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Taming Flash Of Unstyled Content without blocking JavaScript loading

Thu 06/10/2010 in Coding, JavaScript

A smart way to overcome FOUC while still using LABjs as JavaScript non-blocking loading techniques.

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On the Bookshelf: Wordpress 2.9 e-Commerce

Sat 05/29/2010 in Internet, PHP

I know: someone may be horrified by the idea of using Wordpress as an e-commerce system, but i think that given its user friendly backend interface and the amount of developers using it, it’d be a mistake not to learn something about the WP “e-commerce way”.
The guide i’m introducing here, and which i’m currently reading, [...]

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Review: MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide

Sat 03/27/2010 in Internet, JavaScript

One major problem with JavaScript programming is that, differently from other languages, there are little programmers with really good knowledge of it.
This problem is tightly related to the lack of a solid culture in front-end development, which usually is a gray area between programmers and designers.
Even if a solid knowledge of JavaScript should be [...]

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Fix role attribute in Wordpress Search Widget

Fri 03/12/2010 in Coding, PHP

A quick and clean fix to make wordpress’ default search widget valid by removing the role attribute in form tag.

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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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