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RWYN – A user-friendly alternative to drop down menus
February 27th, 2006 at 11:30am | No CommentsRWYN (pronounced are-win) is an acronym for “Reveal What You Need.” It is a menu I came up with while I was sharpening my DHTML skills and building DHTML into TreeView. I was using TreeView for a menu that only had a node depth of 1, which doesn’t really warrant a tree structure at all. ... read more »
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New Design, New WordPress, First Ajax, First Scriptaculous
February 26th, 2006 at 1:45am | 9 CommentsPhewf! What a friggin overhaul! I was getting very bored with the old site and had been squatting on a new design idea for a while, so I finally gave in and wrote my own WordPress theme. A few months ago, I was very much inspired by Scott Schiller’s work (I even borrowed some of ... read more »
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Upgraded to WordPress 2
January 18th, 2006 at 9:37pm | 2 CommentsAbout 2 weeks ago I upgraded to WordPress 2 and I’ve been loving it. The new AJAX-powered features admin interface and WYSIWYG editor are fantastic and definitely make the blogging experience more enjoyable. I am actually surprised at how quickly the WordPress developers have come out with an AJAX implementation. Of all the PHP software ... read more »
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TreeView 2.0 Released
November 21st, 2005 at 8:56pm | 4 CommentsClick here for the demo. About a week ago I released version 2.0 of TreeView, a PHP class for adding expandable tree controls to web applications. This is actually a big milestone toward my goal of building Ajax support. The major new features in TreeView 2.0 are: Client-side mode I coded the Javascript to animate ... read more »
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Learning Ajax from the bottom up
November 21st, 2005 at 12:11pm | 1 CommentI remember a co-worker playing around with DHTML four years ago while I was working at SmartForce (now SkillSoft). It was pretty cool, but since there were severe cross-browser problems and few functional uses for it, I felt there were more important things to learn. But all that has now changed with the relatively recent ... read more »