Apr 23
Seven days left! Thats all there is before the early bird discount ends.
Get them while they are extra cheap and not just cheap!
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Dec 8
A big thank you to Rob Gonda for last nights mammoth presentation and to everyone that attended. It was an excellent and very enlightening presentation with loads of code examples.
If you missed out on the meeting you can watch all 2 hours and 17 minutes here :
http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p69276272/
UPDATE: Whoops - sorry forgot to get the permissions on both my presentation from last week and Rob's from last night. You should now be able to see the presentations.
May 18
I was looking for an Ajax Image zoomer, but found this instead :
http://piccy.dotimpac.to/ courtesy of
Ajaxian.
It uses the combination effects in
script.aculo.us to good effect allowing you to pick an image and zoom in and out of that image.
Must remember to grab the files and pull it apart to find out exactly how it works.
Apr 12
Once in a while I really should read documentation - the "hidden" features I might find on all the applications I use.
For some reason Fiddler stopped working with Internet Explorer, so I was actually reading the few doc and faqs that are on the Fiddler website (
http://www.fiddlertool.com/).
If you don't know what Fiddler is, its an HTTP Debugging proxy. It logs all the traffic between your browser and the outside world. Its particularly useful when you're doing Flash remoting or remoting with AJAX.
Anyway... looking at the FAQs I noticed that it is possible to use Fiddler with any browser!! I decided to try it out with Firefox and it was really really easy to do.
- Install and Run Fiddler once. This will create some files, one of which you'll need.
- In "My Documents" you will now see that there is folder for Fiddler. Inside there you'll find a Scripts folder. Grab a copy of the full path to this Scripts folder. For me that would be : C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen\My Documents\Fiddler\Scripts
- Open up Firefox, go to Options under the Tools menu and then click on the Connection Setting button.
- Down the bottom of the connection settings is "Automatic proxy configuration URL:" Select this option and in the box put the file path to the Scripts folder followed by BrowserPAC.js which is a file in the Scripts folder. So my full path is : C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen\My Documents\Fiddler\Scripts\BrowserPAC.js
- Hit the Reload button, then OK, close the options window and you are set!
You will need Fiddler to be open in order to access the internet now, but its easy to switch between your normal settings and automatic proxy when you don't need Fiddler's assistance.
Mar 15
When I was at Concept Personnel last week, Gillian, the young lady I met up with to talk about my CV and what kinds of job I would like to apply for, mentioned
Matt Cutts when we were talking about SEO stuff. The name was familliar but I've never been and read his blog.
If you don't know who Matt Cutts is, he's an employee of Google who blogs about all sorts of stuff including SEO and Google products. I found an interesting little blog which made me realise that you can use
keyboard shortcuts in GMail Personally, I've got a mouse grafted to the palm of my hand, but its nice to know that if I wanted to I could access, reply and send google mail using keyboard short cuts. This is a neat trick with event listening with AJAX.
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