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December 12th in Articles by .

Replicating Yahoo’s Caps Lock Indicator With jQuery

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A while ago I wrote an article on using jQuery and plain JavaScript to add keyboard interaction to HTML forms. I then recently logged into one of Yahoo’s services and encountered their nifty caps lock indicator on the password field and thought I would replicate this using the code I wrote for the article mentioned above and some jQuery.

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As usual we start of writing our HTML:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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December 6th in Articles by .

Scrollable, Zebra Tables With Highlighting Rows With Chromatable and jQuery

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A few days ago I had the requirements to add scrollable tables, with a static header, that was also zebra striped and would highlight the current row on hover. I was looking for a scrollable table jQuery plugin already and having played with Chromatable I decided to simply add the missing functionality with the help of jQuery. First we need to download the Chromatable plugin and then add the needed files to our HTML:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta …
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December 6th in Articles by .

Setting Up An OpenSource Design Studio [Updated]

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A couple of years ago an article such as this one would have been impossible. However, with the popularity, support and involvement of developers exploding it is now truly possible to run a design and development studio completely based on Open Source technologies. Below is a list of products you would need to set-up your Open Source studio.

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One of the first application most design/development studios will invest in is a web design and photo manipulation application. And …
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November 29th in Articles, Mobile Development by .

Deploying Your Mobile App With Antenna

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A while ago I discussed how to go about automating your mobile builds using the Antenna extensions to Ant. One item that I did not touch on was how to deploy your application once it is ready. In today’s post I will cover how to deploy your application to the actual mobile device. To follow along with this post you will have to have read the previous article to ensure your builds are set-up and you have the required properties …
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November 3rd in Articles by .

A Proposal To Add Bit.ly URL Shortening To StatusNet

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For those that have been following the news regarding OpenSource Release Feed you will know that I have finally decided that the best way to make this concept work is with a Twitter like stream and have set-up OpenSource Release Feed on StatusNet. One of the things I have not enjoyed is having to open a new tab, navigate to a new site just to shorten the URL I wish to include with my dent. I have been using Bit.ly …
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