I know this isn’t strictly code-related (OK it’s not even remotely code related), but whenever we have visitors I make this houmous recipe and people seem to enjoy it so I thought I’d spread it around a bit: 1 can of chickpeas drained and washed (also called garbonzo beans) juice of half a lemon 1 [...]
I’m not usually one to get too excited about mobile phones, but the Palm Pre has launched today (in the USA at least – we in the UK are still patiently waiting). Whether or not it will be an “iPhone killer” is hotly debated on the net – my feeling is probably not just yet, [...]
One of the features I wanted to include in our new CMS system was the ability for users to upload files via AJAX, without using a form post to reload the page, and so that they can begin uploading a new file while an upload is already in progress. JQuery to the rescue! The plugin [...]
Update: I’ve now created a jQuery font picker v2 I needed a way to quickly and easily generate a list of web safe fonts for the theme editor in a new CMS I am working on. So I quickly rustled up the following plugin – it’s very basic, and I initially had it showing the [...]
I use Windows Vista for my sins, and one thing that was particularly frustrating recently was that simple act of right clicking. It seemed to take anything up to around a minute for the wretched context menu to appear in Windows Explorer, and finally I had had enough. So I did a bit of hunting [...]
So: every day I come across vast quantities of useful info on the web to do with web coding or other such geekery, and I thought it was about time to give something back to that community. It didn’t seem quite right to put such a blog on our company website since it would probably [...]