I’ve recently been playing with jQuery UI and discovered that using Google’s AJAX library API doesn’t work if you use the google.load function:
google.load("jqueryui", "1.5.3");
You’re best bet is to use jQuery’s ThemeRoller to build a custom theme package or use a pre-configured theme. The download will give you a package of all the essential theme files and the jQuery UI library itself.
Download Notifier Library v1.0
Documentation
I wrote this handy little class to handle sending notifications to the view file after user actions. As is common in many web applications, success and error messages are printed to let the user know the result of a given operation. The flashdata variable in Codeigniter’s session class is perfect for the task but I needed a little more automation of the repetitive task of formatting the flashdata in HTML. That’s where the Notifier class comes in.
Download Header Library v2.0
Documentation
Header Library 2.0 fresh off the text editor. I’ve just recently re-factored my Header Library class to be a lot more reusable and more full-featured. The new library is a stand-alone class that populates an array with configurable common <head> tag values and is fully configurable.
Scriptaculist.tgz
Documentation
One of my favorite features of the Prototype/Scriptaculous libraries is the sortables function. It’s a really elegant solution to sorting data by using drag and drop javascript. I found a really great simple PHP class to generate the javascript code for the sortable list and capture the data as PHP to save to a database called SLLists by Greg Neustaetter. I little bit of hacking and, voila, a handy Code Igniter library to handle all my sortable needs.
I’ve just downloaded the Wordpress iPhone app and am writing this post via my iPod Touch. This could be interesting.
Download - better_vector_badges.zip
I’m always on the lookout for free re-usable vector graphics, like icons and buttons. Recently I found a vector badge kit that was very well packaged and had lots of pre-configured colors. However there is a strange highlight and a weird dark gradient that makes them unusable in my opinion. Since the package contained source files, I simply edited the files to taste and now offer them back into the wild to be downloaded freely as they came to me.
This class has been updated here: Header Library v2.0. Version 2.0 is much sexier.
Download - HeaderClass1.0.1.tgz
In the recent 1.6+ update to Code Igniter, the view engine received a much needed renovation and now it’s possible to load multiple view files in one controller method. This approach prevents from having to put code that belongs in the controller in the view and gives greater flexibility in building composite views within the controller.
Code Igniter - My favorite Open Source PHP web application framework.
Blueprint CSS - A slick CSS framework that let's you get down to business.
PHP - Simple & Powerful Scripting language. I PHP.
OS X - Unix stability + Apple pretty = One beautiful development operating system. If it weren't for my Mac, I don't know if I'd have this much fun writing code.
MySQL - The world's most popular open source database.
Firefox - A Faster, more secure, and customizable web browser. I can't live without Firefox, it has too many powerful and useful extensions.
TextMate - My favorite text editor for OS X. With TextMate, development is more like sorcery.
CSSEdit - The fastest way to create and edit css files. The closest thing to telepathically writing CSS.
Transmit - It's like FedEx for web developers. Only it always delivers.
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