Hi Everyone!

Need a little help gathering information for my dissertation.

If you can spare 5 seconds, please answer the following poll, your answers will be greatly appreciated!

In response to Sérgio of estudio5.org this morning, i have created a jQuery script that does the same as the Prototype script i created a few weeks ago Ajax Content Load

This is the first time i have ever used jQuery, it is much more light weight, and unless you are using Prototype to its full potential, jQuery is perfect… I am thinking of using it alot more often!

Anyways, here is a link to the demo and a zip for everyones convenience!
jQuery Content Loading Demo
jQuery Content Loading ZIP

!! Don’t be tight, if you use this script, please reference me !!

Just logged onto my Google page, and noticed a cool new feature! Themes!

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2Big2Send has just been opened for Beta.

2Big2Send will enable people to send large files anywhere in the world without clogging up your sent-items and the recipients inbox, not to mention avoiding the bounce messages you get after waiting 20mins to send that 200Mb file

2Big2Send will give you an easy interface to track the emails and files that you send through our system giving you the piece-of-mind that the file you sent was received on the other side.

As usual we will be offering a free sending utility straight from the home page, this will be limited to 250Mb.

So what sets us apart from everyone else?
+ Files uploaded to our servers are all done through a secure socket layer (SSL) to eliminate your files being intercepted.
+ We know that there are speed differences in downloading a file from the UK or USA, therefore we look at the recipients email address, and choose a server closest to their country to achieve the fastest possible download time.
+ Mailing list support will be built into our business packages allowing you to send the same file to many people.
+ Bounce emails can be a pain therefore we tag each email that is sent from your account so we are able to catch the bounce emails and notify you of the error.

What do I get as a Beta user?
As a Beta user you will benefit from all the features during the beta period, then a discount on our services when we officially launch.

So what’s next?
We are aiming to have the beta system up and running by the 1st April, you will be able to use the main system for sending and collecting files once we see that this is running as it should be in the real world (internal testing cannot batter it enough) we will start adding the advanced modules for your use.

If you are interested!
Please visit http://2Big2Send.com

I was sitting at the bus-stop earlier and there was a guy walking past whistling… Im not saying that its a bad thing, just interested in why you do it??
Cast your vote below.

You can add your own answer if these do not cover it

I’m going to assume that we all know, or have atleast heard of Prototype and script.aculo.us the two combine to form one powerful javascript library enabling developers to become designers (well, kind of).
– Example and code at the bottom –

I have created a ZIP file to get you up and running right away: Download it now!

I was showing a friend a few days ago something i made for a university module, Multimedia Applications Desgn (a mouthful i know). Basically we had to create a website promoting our group as a duo, thats all your getting about the project as its not really relevant and a tad embarrassing should anyone find the site!

There was a part of the site that my friend really liked and wanted to incorporate into his final year project… after sketching it out for him on paper i reconed that other people could benefit.
This has probably been splashed everywhere, but i havent seen anything that incorporates all the same characteristics on Digg.

So here is a quick, hopefully easy to understand, tutorial of how its done.

Abstract
We are trying to achieve loading content into a ‘div’ element without refreshing the page, as well as showing a cool loading window inplace of the content as it is loading.

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Saw this this set of jokes in my lecture slides last night.

I’m not sure of the true origin of these jokes, t’internet seems full of them!

So there were a couple of problems with my last image processing functions (http://nodstrum.com/2006/12/09/image-manipulation-using-php/).

1. If you were trying to process a massive image > 1024px×768px it failed.
2. I only accounted for people processing Jpegs.
3. CPU spikes, because of the amount of processing that is being done with the image the CPU is really taking a hit.
4. The functions were really quite long.

These new function will use ImageMagicK, not all servers have ImageMagicK installed by default, check with your hosting provider.

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This post will cover backgrounds (for DIVs) and transparent images (.PNGs)

As we ALL know; IE6 poses far too many challenges for designers, resulting in seperate stylesheets and hacks.
I found the need for a transparent background with links on top of it, in Firefox & Safari (and IE7) PNGs are supported, so all worked fine, but when tried with IE6, Yea, there were PROBLEMS! No PNG support and links within the transparent window disappeared.

There are links to the PNGs and Demos at the bottom of the post.

This is the difinitive way to make transparency work with all browsers!

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THIS HAS BEEN UPDATED, PLEASE SEE THIS POST: http://nodstrum.com/2007/06/27/mysql-calendar/

Hi,

Quite a few people seemed to like my previous tutorial Image Manipulation using PHP, and looking around many of the tutorial sites there are hardly any Calendar systems. Perfect, here is a simple, in calendar terms one…
You’ll see what i mean.

At the bottom of this tutorial there is a link to the ZIP and the test site.

There are 3 main parts, the Javascript, the HTML and the PHP script.
For this tutorial i am making it so you can change the date with the form and it will update the calendar without having to reload the entire page, AJAX style.

First we need the Script.aculo.us library, if you download my zip test file it is already included, but if not go to: http://script.aculo.us

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