• Adding A Splice() Method To The Javascript String Prototype

    Updated: 2011-03-29 16:13:47
    In my blog post yesterday on using slice(), substring(), and substr() in Javascript to perform substring extraction , Andy Matthews and I got into a brief discussion about how in many languages, at a core level, strings are nothing more than arrays of characters. This concept got me thinking - if both Arrays and Strings in Jav ... ead More raquo;

  • Getting Video thumbnails from YouTube

    Updated: 2011-03-28 21:45:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground Home About Me Portfolio Projects Gallery Xbox 360 Contact 28 M A R 2011 Getting Video thumbnails from YouTube Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Coldfusion I want to display an image thumbnail on a page , so that a user can click on it and the video will pop up in a lightbox . But how do I get a thumbnail image of the video I want This article shows you how you can quickly and easily use a Youtube URL to get video thumbnails . There is a demo of this here : http : www.mccran.co.uk examples youtube-thumbs Youtube has an API you can use to pull down data on a video , including several thumbnail images , if you don't want to get your head around that they also have a URL you can use . print about ColdFISH is developed by Jason Delmore .

  • Using Slice(), Substring(), And Substr() In Javascript

    Updated: 2011-03-28 16:34:00
    In the book, Eloquent Javascript: A Modern Introduction to Programming , Marijn Haverbeke takes the reader through a good number of string-parsing examples. And, in his examples, Haverbeke makes frequent use of the String method, slice(). When I think of slice(), I think of extracting portions of a Javascript array; I don't think I was even aware that ... ead More raquo;

  • JQuery Drag and Drop to multiple div elements

    Updated: 2011-03-24 20:58:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground Home About Me Portfolio Projects Gallery Xbox 360 Contact 24 M A R 2011 JQuery Drag and Drop to multiple div elements Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : JQuery Javascript RIA My only previous experience with Drag and Drop web development was with Flex 2, which I have to say was a bit of a nightmare . There was an astronomical amount of setup to do in terms of event listeners and mouse watching services , so I was reluctant to get back into Drag and Drop' with any other technology . This article explains how straight forward the JQuery Drag and Drop interfaces are to use , and how I constructed a Drag and Drop example using multiple divs . There is an example of a JQuery Drag and Drop demo here . http : www.mccran.co.uk examples

  • Arguments.length In Javascript Depends On Invocation Arguments, Not Function Signatures

    Updated: 2011-03-24 14:25:00
    In Javascript, within a function, you can use "arguments.length" to determine how many arguments were passed-in during the given function invocation. In the past, I've used this to overload Javascript functions . Until I read ... ead More raquo;

  • Book review: CMS Design Using PHP and JQuery

    Updated: 2011-03-22 08:48:00
    , , , : : Shaun Mccran My digital playground Home About Me Portfolio Projects Gallery Xbox 360 Contact 22 M A R 2011 Book review : CMS Design Using PHP and JQuery Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Web technologies Social JQuery I was recently approached by Packt Publishing to review one of their new books , CMS Design using PHP and JQuery . They mentioned that I'm always talking about JQuery so thought I'd be an ideal test . subject I've dabbled in some PHP , and JQuery is an everyday tool in my arsenal so I was more than happy to give it a . read The book is structured in such a way as to try and explain the business logic for Content Management Systems . It goes into the flow of the application logic first , which I think gives more clarity to the code sections that follow on .

  • Huge update for Robo Defense for Android

    Updated: 2011-03-17 09:00:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground Home About Me Portfolio Projects Gallery Xbox 360 Contact 17 M A R 2011 Huge update for Robo Defense for Android Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Mobile Android Applications Over the last few days Lupis Labs have steadily released a huge amount of updates to their Robo Defense' Android game . It was already a top ten game for the Android platform , but it is great to see software maturing , and being constantly revised to bring additional features to their users . There has been a massive graphics overhaul , the addition of a zoom mode and several other updates . They have also added a load more achievements , and a survival mode with scaling difficulty to really test you . A full list of the updates is available on the Lupis Labs

  • Creating and using a custom short URL with bit.ly

    Updated: 2011-03-12 21:04:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground Home About Me Portfolio Projects Gallery Xbox 360 Contact 12 M A R 2011 Creating and using a custom short URL with bit.ly Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Web technologies General Interest Most of us are familiar with short URL's now . They are a pretty standard feature online now . What is becoming more popular is having a custom URL for your own links . Instead of posting short URL's that contain the name of the service provider , you can create a short link that has your own custom short . format In this article I have used the bit.ly pro service . It is a free service where you have to apply for access . You submit your site for approval , and bit.ly will either accept or reject you . I'm not entirely sure what criteria you have to

  • DotNetNuke Tips and Tricks #24: Local Virtual Hosts

    Updated: 2011-03-11 15:59:48
    : The Accidental Geek One Geek's Journey Search Sign in Home Subscribe What’s In a Name DotNetNuke Tips and Tricks 24 : Local Virtual Hosts Mar 11 In my position as the release manager for DotNetNuke I end up installing DotNetNuke numerous times every week . 160 While I have a set of PowerShell scripts which makes this process relatively painless there were still some areas that I felt needed improvement . 160 In the past I have created all of my sites as applications in a virtual directory under the default site in IIS 7.5 Windows 7 This usually results in some URL for my site that looks like this : http : localhost myDNNsite While this works , it does limit me to one type of URL . 160 If I want to test DotNetNuke using a standard domain then I have to edit the Windows Host file to create

  • DotNetNuke Spotlight: User Management

    Updated: 2011-03-08 19:02:33
    : The Accidental Geek One Geek's Journey Search Sign in Home Subscribe DotNetNuke Tips and Tricks 24 : Local Virtual Hosts DotNetNuke Spotlight : User Management Mar 08 DotNetNuke is a web content management system and an application framework that has grown over the past 8 years to solve many of the challenges faced by developers when building websites and web applications . 160 Because of this rich feature set , it is possible that there may be areas of the platform which you have yet to explore . 160 In this ongoing series , I plan to use short video clips to highlight some of my favorite features of the . platform A few weeks ago , Ash Prasad , a software engineer at DotNetNuke Corp . discussed a new feature he worked on for 5.6.2.  Ash did a really great job on the feature and I

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