Social Media
Social Media has come a very long way, as the technology steps ahead more people now have the urge to use social media tools to socialise rather than picking up their phone dropping a text. In my schools days we use to socialise by meeting up and exchanging text messages. There was nothing like sharing a picture, sharing your location or even tagging people. I guess it all comes in good time and we never know what will come in the near future?
Ajax Load Container
With jQuery, you can load not just the contents of a URL, but a specific CSS selector from within that URL. It’s like this.
$("#area").load("example.html #content");
top ten rails plugins
As a Ruby on Rails developer I have always found rails gems and plugins very useful to use as it allows me quickly to extend the functionality with less code writing. Over the past few years I have used many rails plugins to get the job done keeping in mind the clients requirements. One problem facing Rails code is knowing what plugins are out there and how to use them, or which plugin is best for the job. The following is a list of top ten plugins/gems that you should be aware off and should really use in your rails app to speed up the development and enhance the functionality of your app.
Wayfinder – Free ebook
Wayfinder is the most common and widely used snippet in MODx. Wayfinder snippet is mainly used to construct navigation of your site; it can also be used wherever you need a structured list reflecting the document tree hierarchy.
Since I have started working with MODx, the first snippet I wrote was the Wayfinder snippet. I was very impressed how quickly and easily it creates the navigation and the documentation was clear. After some research I found this free ebook called “Wayfinder – the almost complete guide to constructing menus in MODx” and now I would like to share this with all MODx developers/beginners.
5 MUST have iphone apps
Since companies like Apple, Nokia, Microsoft and even Google have developed smart phones software; there’s been an increase in mobile applications. There’s an app for cooking, reading, shopping, painting and the list goes on. Now virtually there is any app for almost anything you can think off. Mobile application is changing the way we live our busy life having all the power under our fingers and keeping up-to-date where ever we are.
ICSA Intranet
The new Intranet for ICSA was developed using MODx and PHP. It replaces the old one page Intranet with more dynamic allowing employees to personalise their home page with useful widgets, such as Staff news, Phone List and useful web-links.
The redevelopment of the Intranet was so that it looks more like the actual company’s website.
MODx elements
As we know that MODx cms is growing to become a popular content management system with its capabilities to produce professional and high end websites. As many of you are not aware of MODx please read my blog on what MODx is or visit the MODx website. Among other popular CMS’s such as Joomla and Drupal, MODx is the most user friendly CMS I have used and picked up very quickly. MODx is very well designed and has a backend like all other CMS for users to create content and functionality.
php: working with arrays
As a developer you already know that a variable is a bucket in which you can temporarily store a value. Using these values from the bucket you can create a script that stores, processes, and outputs information everytime it is run. Unfortunately, you can only save one value per variable at a time. Arrays are special variables that enables you to overcome this problem. An array can store many values as you want in the same variable. Each value is indexed within the array by a number or string.
Each item in an array is referred to as an element. Each element can be accessed directly via its index. By default, array elements are indexed by numbers, starting at 0. With array you can loop through each item or pull one out at random. You can sort an array numerically, alphabetically or even the way you want it to sort.
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ruby on rails: basic commands
This is a very basic guide for those who are interested in learning ruby on rails. I assume you have already installed ruby on rails and have basic knowledge. Many beginners using ruby on rails will not use any IDE, rather they will use command line if installed on MAC or linux. So here I will list seven important commands which you really need to know inside out and are used throughout the development of a project. I will use Demo as project name and users (model) as a table in the database.
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free social networking icons
As social networking is growing at an alraming rate more web users, including organisations are displaying social media icons on thier website/portfolio to direct users to thier social network. Every website now uses social media icons to alert the user that they are also part of the social network such as facbook and twitter. So I would like to share free icon set which I have used for many of my clients.
Download: SocialMediaBookmarkIcon (403KB)