http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk Home to web development thoughts, study and running progress Sun, 20 May 2012 20:57:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2012/04/28/windows-phone-7-minor-improvements-wanted/ http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2012/04/28/windows-phone-7-minor-improvements-wanted/#comments Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:21:32 +0000 Pete http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/?p=818 Three weeks ago I made the switch from Android to Windows Phone 7 and I'm reasonably impressed by the Windows operating system. However I have listed a few useability improvements which I would like to see in the next version.]]> http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2012/04/28/windows-phone-7-minor-improvements-wanted/feed/ 0 http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2012/04/01/3d-box-using-the-html5-canvas-api/ http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2012/04/01/3d-box-using-the-html5-canvas-api/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:28:59 +0000 Pete http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/?p=794 A demonstation of the HTML5 Canvas API. Here the user controls which transparent side of 3d box is to be displyed]]> http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2012/04/01/3d-box-using-the-html5-canvas-api/feed/ 0 http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2011/12/22/christmas-2011-count-down/ http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2011/12/22/christmas-2011-count-down/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:01:22 +0000 Pete http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/?p=667 Today I took a break from studying to make the Christmas Count Down. The count down is made from the following mashups]]> http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2011/12/22/christmas-2011-count-down/feed/ 0 http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2011/12/01/wordcounter-jquery-plugin-is-added-to-noupes-top-40-list/ http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2011/12/01/wordcounter-jquery-plugin-is-added-to-noupes-top-40-list/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:15:30 +0000 Pete http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/?p=590 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.]]> http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2011/12/01/wordcounter-jquery-plugin-is-added-to-noupes-top-40-list/feed/ 0 http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2011/11/09/total-rewrite-of-the-wordcounter-jquery-plugin/ http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2011/11/09/total-rewrite-of-the-wordcounter-jquery-plugin/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:01:15 +0000 Pete http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/?p=405
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]]> http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2011/11/09/total-rewrite-of-the-wordcounter-jquery-plugin/feed/ 0 http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2010/11/12/css-hacks-are-not-ok/ http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2010/11/12/css-hacks-are-not-ok/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:44:31 +0000 Pete http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/?p=491 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!).]]> http://blog.peterfisher.me.uk/2010/11/12/css-hacks-are-not-ok/feed/ 0