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Using jQuery to manipulate Checkboxes can sometimes be testing for us developers, hence I’m sharing some code her in the hope that it may assist with getting the user’s HTML Checkbox selections. Consider a simple group of checkboxes, each one representing the day of the week. Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat The relevant [...]

Safari on iPhone / iPad OS You can control whether or not automatic correction or capitalization are used in your forms on iPhone OS. Set the autocorrect attribute to on if you want automatic correction and the autocapitalize attribute to on if you want automatic capitalization. If you do not set these attributes, then the browser chooses whether or [...]

The {css} designerGrid jQuery plugin was yesterday posted on Smashing Magazine’s website under, “45 Fresh Useful JavaScript Techniques & Tools“. Thank you Smashing Magazine!

Having Python 2.6 pre-installed with my version of Ubuntu (9.10 – Karmic Koala), the first thing we need to do in order to install MySql with Python & Django is to check for the latest available version of the mod-wsgi module on google code, http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/downloads/list. Modify your commands in the following steps to suit the [...]

Our first authored jQuery plugin, css designerGrid, is designed to help web interface developers with their CSS prototyping. The css designerGrid plugin takes advantage of HTML 5 and the new <canvas /> element, laying out the user defined grid to assist in content placement during web page development. The user can toggle the designerGrid display [...]

Apple’s decision to not support Adobe’s Flash Player in it’s iPhone and iPad technologies will certainly be a major obstacle in consumer’s minds when it comes down to deciding if it, or Google’s Nexus One, will become the object of our desires and affection. Whether you believe Apple’s reasoning behind their decision is that, the [...]

When it comes to passing in variables to Flash from your HTML / XHTML instantiation, there’s more ways than one to skin a cat. In this particular implementation I’ll focus on a PHP implementation, whereas later I’ll introduce the Java Script implementation. For the purpose of this exercise, my index.php file instantiates an external class [...]