Know your audience? Got google analytics aggregating their details? Great, good for you! But doe’s that add any value in the short term? Improve THEIR browsing experience? In the long run you should use analytics to achieve better sites (although many don’t) – but for now, right here you can still add some of the […]
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IP to Location Alternative: Javascript – Using JS to find Browser Country / Location not from IP
Posted in Javascript, Snippets, Web Development Tagged asp.net, download, explorations, javascript, location, php, timezones
Did you know: Facebook short url’s already kinda exist
As a side note: facebook shorturls, or at least abreviated urls exist. We all know about fb.me, but fb.com works too…. Random occurance: Was saving down facebook data into a database from the graph api, wanted to save the urls in a mixed url table but didn’t want to bother saving the whole http://www.facebook.com every […]
Posted in Facebook Pages, Projects, Web Development, Web Technology Tagged dataspace savings, facebook, facebook shorturl, random occurance, shorturl
Abstract Autumn: Animal Structures
See the rest of Abstract Autumn, Addictive @my photostream
Posted in Photography, Photography Tagged abstract, Architecture, Belgium, flickr, Gent, Photos
Fix/Hack to make AutoSuggest JQuery Plugin work
When I came across Drew Wilson’s flashy JQuery Autosuggest plugin I happily downloaded the code and started using it within a recent project, but as I used it more and more I kept hitting a bug – don’t know if its just the version of JQuery I was tied to using or whether everyone using […]
Posted in Javascript, Web Technology Tagged autosuggest, client-side, hacks, JQuery, ui
Maintain a CSV with Javascript – keep a hidden list
The situation: Want to build a comma separated list of int’s (or whatever) client-side, in javascript, remove/add items on the fly using JS. Well these tiny functions below are what I use, useful when you just need to get a clever form / app input done. Using the below you can add/remove items to an […]
Posted in Javascript, Snippets, Web Development Tagged client-side, csv, javascript, ui
Facebook time in php – Facebook uses GMT not PDT/PST?
I don’t know whether its purely related to my location when I am calling facebooks’ graph API or what, but all the talk about what timestamps facebooks API returns seems to be wrong. Perhaps they’ve changed something, perhaps they are re-adjusting them just for me. If its the latter I wonder why they are giving me GMT […]
Posted in Facebook Pages, PHP, Projects, Social Media, Web Development Tagged facebook, facebook apps, facebook pages, facebook time, timezones
Unable to drop JQuery sortable onto empty list? Hack solution
The problem: You have a multi column (or area) JQuery UI Sortable (these are neat) which only needs to show a “drop zone” when the user has started to drag a sortable object. The JQuery documentation for this doesn’t account for the reality of the above, its all very well if you want the empty […]
Posted in Javascript, Snippets, Web Development Tagged JQuery, Sortable
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