Archive for April, 2006

Overuse of Computers & Avoiding RSI and CTS

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Very interesting post in the Google blog, by Dr. Taraneh Razavi, M.D., Staff Doctor at Google. Razavi talks about overuse syndromes and repetitive stress injury:
The damage sustained from RSI is due to structural changes in the muscle fiber as well as due to decreased blood flow. Nerves can also be involved. The immobile tissue and […]

Life | No comments

Creating Wildcard Subdomains + Controller/Dispatcher

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Ever wanted to create an automatic system that will open subdomains for your customers? Or maybe you would like to control your subdomains without having to mess around with DNS and configuration files everytime, but have wildcard subdomains?
You’re in the right place. Continue reading!

If you don’t know what you’re doing - don’t blame me if […]

PHP, Linux, Apache | 4 comments

PHP5 and XML

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

One of the best things in PHP5 is that almost everything regarding XML was rewritten; All XML extensions are now based on the libxml2 library, from Zend article:

In addition to the better-known SAX support inherited from PHP 4, PHP 5 supports DOM according to the W3C standard and XSLT with the very fast libxslt engine. […]

PHP, XML | 1 comment

Too Funny To Miss

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Two girls doing a kick for Aretha Franklin’s Respect!
video.google.com
It made me laugh. So come’ on!

Funny | No comments

Emil’s Client-Side Charting (SVG/VML)

Monday, April 17th, 2006

Emil’s work on his Chart client-side component is really coming along, as usual he is doing an amazing job, and it now supports Internet Explorer through using the ExplorerCanvas.
Could you believe IE won’t support SVG? It’s amazing to hear these speculations. But anyways, Emil’s chart script supports SVG, Canvas, and the VML for IE. So […]

Web, JavaScript, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, Freebies | No comments

Sneak Peak Into Googles’ New Search Result

Friday, April 14th, 2006

Google is working on a new interface, don’t really know how extensive is their redesign, but here’s a way to sneak-in and see their new search results:

1. Browse to www.google.com (Or google.co.il, co.uk…)
2. Paste this string into your address bar - AS ONE LINE:
javascript:alert(document.cookie=”PREF=ID=fb7740f107311e46:TM=1142683332:LM=1142683332:S=fNSw6ljXTzvL3dWu;path=/;domain=.google.com”)

(Change the portion of “domain=.google.com†if you’re accessing a different google domain)
3. […]

Google | 2 comments

Two Simpler and Nicer PHP/MySQL Forums

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

I came across two very nice, easy and simple to install and manage Forum scripts based for PHP/MySQL:
Vanilla
PunBB
Here is a nice example of customizing PunBB at the Mint forums:
http://www.haveamint.com/forum/

Web, Software, Freebies, MySQL | 3 comments

Very cool cross-browser CSS photo gallery

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

No JavaScript, just CSS, and it validates according to the author. Amazing to see what CSS grew up into. Check it out:
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/lightbox.html
Could be integrated maybe with Lightbox? Good idea I think. Specialy when the new version 2.0 is out!
Lightbox 2

CSS | No comments

Behaviour - Clean up your HTML code!

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

The missing link in your ajax apps. This is what the writer of this scripts says, and it seems like it’s one cool tool. Check it out, it will help you associate events with elements based on CSS and no chunky javascript in the middle of your HTML:
http://bennolan.com/behaviour/

Example of usage:

<ul id=”example”>
<li>
<a href=”/someurl”>Click me to delete […]

JavaScript, CSS, XMLHttp/Ajax | No comments

Handy document.createElement wrapper

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

Looks like a very handy function that will ease the process of creating recursive multiple elements within JavaScript, have a look:
http://www.arantius.com/article/dollar-e
Example usage:

var element=$E({
tag:’div’,
className:’toolGroup’,
id:’toolGroup_1′,
children:{
tag:’div’,
className:’roundBarTop’,
[…]

Web, JavaScript, Freebies, XMLHttp/Ajax | No comments

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