Archive for March, 2009

A long while ago, I saw a plain blue canvas in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. At that time, I was flabbergasted that was considered art – after all, it was a canvas of flat blue. I started laughing and I could not stop for a long time. Today, a few years later, [...]

I’ve been tinkering around with CakePHP for the last few weeks out of curiosity. The process has been fun and has made me enjoy PHP much more. After building the application to work the usual way (not spiced up with some Ajax goodness), I decided to add in some Ajax support. Although CakePHP comes with Ajax helpers that will certainly help make development a snap, I wanted use jQuery. Here’s a snippet of my code that I used to add a task.

I love TinyMCE. It’s extremely easy to integrate and best of all, it’s open source and thus free.

Some time ago, something stumped my co-worker and I about TinyMCE. We were working on a blog application that included an HTML editor. Along with the editor, we wanted to give the users a chance to upload pictures with their posting. But looking at the general structure of TinyMCE, we realized that TinyMCE was not built to accommodate multiple users (I might be wrong here, but it’s didn’t seem possible without purchasing MCImageManager). In our application, each user has the ability to upload his own images and should not have access to the rest of the images uploaded by other registered users.

As usual, the “change” bug kicked in late Friday night and I decided to redo the blog layout. I found one ready to be used here and decided to build upon it for this site. Some quirks might still be needed to be ironed out, but this latest upgrade is certainly going to help me [...]

What is jTipster? Remember the times you would like to add notes to a picture, but there were no other ways to do it without firing up Photoshop. The problem with that is the content added to the picture was not easily changed, you needed some Photoshop skills and well, not SEO friendly.

So, what is it again? Well, jTipster allows you to add “markers” to a picture. For each marker added, you can add short or long captions that appear on rollover. See it working here.

So, how do you get it working. Follow the steps below and to get started.

South Valley Bike and Run Club began in the Spring of 2009 when a group of friends, each with different passions for endurance sports decided it would be nice to have one group that would combine Mountain Biking, Road Cycling and Running into a club. The site has grown leaps and bounds from the time it began.