Technology never seems to take a breather from its run for progress as it belts out one pleasant surprise after another. With the phenomenal popularity of the internet across all facets of life there is a website for almost anything these days. And with the growing craze for newer and richer features like web applications on various websites serenading the visitors, there’s even more reason for...

I must admit working in an environment where you are the only application programmer can be less then satisfying as there is limited ability to interact with fellow developers. I find the biggest downfall is the single vision of techniques and solutions. This unfortunate scenario leads to a lot of online reading of articles from leading developers and programming enthusiasts. I recently (past few...

W3C has offered some new options for borders in CSS3, of which one is border-radius. Both Mozila/Firefox and Safari 3 have implemented this function, which allows you to create round corners on box-items. This is an example: This is an example of a paragraph with rounded corners. Below is the code used to create the rounded corner effect, you can image the endless possibilities with creation of buttons...

When I first started freelancing I was happy to take any project that came my way. At that time without an established network and even without a portfolio site, most of the clients I picked up came through word-of-mouth referrals from friends and family. When I finally got to the point of getting a significant number of leads and inquiries, one of the most difficult things for me was to determine...

Sometimes there are situations where one might require a confirmation prior to leaving a site or maybe you just want a confirmation prior to executing an action.  This can be achieved very easily with a few lines of jQuery code. Let’s assume we have the following code: <a href="http://www.jquery.com" alt="jQuery - External Link" class="confirmexit" >jQuery</a> You...

So, you wanna be a web designer? In addition to the long hours, low pay, and diminished social status, you’ll find yourself competing against the likes of “My cousin’s neighbor’s 8th grade daughter is good with computers. Maybe she could do my website?” scenario. She probably would do it. For a Jonas Brothers sticker book. Anyway, as I’m sure you are well aware, you can find tons of resources...

Recently, I have been working with reading of text files and xml files. To do this you can use the Coldfusion cffile function. The function, getCurrentTemplatePath(), will return the full path of the current template. By path we mean the directory and file name. The function, getDirectoryFromPath(), will then get just the directory from the path. Code Example: <span style="color: #800000;">&lt;cfset...

qTip is an unobtrusive jQuery tooltip plugin with a list of nice features. It has: - rounded corner support without use of any PNGs - very flexible tooltip pointers are as they can be positioned in several locations - 5 ready to use stylish themes & you can create your own easily - support for not-overlacking. How close the tooltips are, they will preserve their stacking order - ready to use effects:...

Some times clients will request little features such as a word count on a form field or request the data collected from the user fall within a certain word count range. Although, this is slightly different then the more common practice of performing a character count for field size validation, it is still a easy task with the use of JQuery. Below is a little snipped which performs a word count: $(’#data’).keyup(function()...

Perhaps you use rsync, Time Machine or similar backup software mirroring your files to external drives for your PCs on a regular basis. What about your remote web server? Webmoney has written an article – Back Up a Web Server, which taught us the ways you can backup the HTML files, stylesheets, application files and databases on your remote web host. The only thing you’ll need is a remote web...