I have developed websites since I left school back in 1998. Since then I have worked for myself, for a web design company and for a web hosting and Internet services company. With a background in both programming and design I would like to share some of my ideas, thoughts and snippets.
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Today I took a break from studying to make the Christmas Count Down. The count down is made from the following mashups Keith Wood‘s jQuery countdown plugin Jason Brown’s jQuery Snowfall plugin Googles Spicy Rice web font Dean Martins Let It Snow Let It Snow video from youtube Facebook and twitter links The most challenging ... Read More
Trello is a lightweight planning and organization tool for individuals and teams. I use it at work as a project management aid and at home to store any personal to-do lists. Here are six reasons why I like it. Trello is simple Theres no need to read manuals or instructions. Its very quick to pickup. ... Read More
I’m delighted to announce that Noupe has included the jQuery wordCounter plugin on their 40+ Useful and Fresh jQuery Plugins post. I’m over the moon that Nousheen Aquil from the Curious Side of Smashing Magazine would think this plugin worthy for the list. The post includes popular jQuery plugins such as Lettering.js, Cuepoint.js and simpleSlider ... Read More
Google Analytics is a must have tool for SEO junkies. I’ve recently added it to a few of my own sites but unfortunately I didn’t setup any filters. I started working on a site locally over the weekend and forgot the tracking code was still active. This meant that for two days the site had ... Read More
As requested by Irvin in a comment on the wordCounter documentation, I have updated the plugin to prevent further input if the limit is reached. Unfortunately the original implementation didn’t allow additional features to be included without a lot of re factoring. So I decided to recode the plugin from scratch. From the the git ... Read More
The University of Nottingham has created an open source program called OpenPseudonymiser which is used by (but not limited too) the NHS. It allows users to pseudonymise datasets by creating a digest of one or more columns of a CSV file. The program incorporates the NHSNumberValiadtor to validate NHS numbers used within the program. Go ... Read More
Internet Explorer 6 is 10 years old, its full of security holes , it doesn’t follow the latest w3c standards and is only supported in Microsoft XP SP3. So why is IE6 not dead yet? Well, users are switching to better browsers but in my view this is a slow and painful progression. According to ... Read More
I have added my jQuery WordCounter plugin under the “Code” page. This is simple plugin that counts the words in a target text input and displays a counter in a div. A limit can be added to the counter and when reached a warning message is shown. Other options such are negative numbers and custom ... Read More
If you need to include JavaScript on certain WordPress pages then add the following logic in the header.php Here I am registering and queuing up the wordCounter JavaScript file if the current page title is ‘wordCounter jQuery Plugin’. If you have lots of pages which require different JavaScript files then I suggest using a switch ... Read More
In response to the article David Walsh wrote GET OVER IT! 6 Things Web Developers Need to Get Over I have to disagree on point 2 (Get Over It CSS Hacks are OK!). CSS hacks are usually added to a style-sheet to fix the many IE annoyances and the continuing lack of standard compliance. Each ... Read More
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