Simon Bingham's Web Development Blog - Last 20 posts

Xindi PHP Version 2013.6.9 Released

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 07:00:00 GMT

The latest PHP version of Xindi is available to download. What is Xindi? Xindi is a small, lightweight and flexible content management system. It's great for web developers looking ...

Falling back to a local version of AngularJS if the CDN version fails to load

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Here's how to fallback to a local version of AngularJS if the CDN version fails to load.  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.co...

Xindi PHP Version 2013.5.14 Released

Tue, 14 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT

The latest PHP version of Xindi is available to download. What is Xindi? Xindi is a small, lightweight and flexible content management system. It's great for web developers looking ...

Xindi CMS CFML version 2013.5.1 released

Wed, 01 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT

The latest version of Xindi CMS CFML is available to download from GitHub. Minor changes this month include: Added headings to sample news articles. Added placeholder images to sample...

Xindi CMS PHP Version 2013.3.28 Released

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:00:00 GMT

At the end of last year a job change meant I would be coding PHP rather than CFML. I hadn't coded much PHP so I thought a good way to get up to speed with the language would be to port Xindi, t...

Xindi CMS CFML version 2013.3.29 released

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:00:00 GMT

The latest version of Xindi CMS is available to download from GitHub. Changes include: Updated Bootstrap to version 2.3 User interface enhancements Added Google Analytics tracki...

Converting IP Addresses To And From Integer Values With SQL Server

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:00:00 GMT

I recently worked on a project where I needed to: store an IP address in a database retrieve the IP address at a later date determine if an IP address is present within a range ...

Difference between $(document).ready and $(window).load in jQuery

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:00:00 GMT

The other day I ran into an issue where my JavaScript wasn't working as intended. I needed my code to execute after the page had finished loading (including images). It turns out that, in j...

Making equal height columns with jQuery

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:00:00 GMT

I should note that, if you can achieve equal height columns using CSS alone, that is what you should use. However, in my case, CSS wasn't quite up to the task. Here's how you achieve eq...

Xindi CMS version 2013.2.2 released

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:00:00 GMT

The latest version of Xindi CMS is available to download from GitHub. Changes include: Removed username field (email address used for login) Railo fix and support for basic support fo...

Using CDN hosted jQuery with a local fallback copy

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:00:00 GMT

Using a version of jQuery that is hosted on a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a good way of improving the performance of your site. However, if for any reason the CDN version fails to load it&#39...

Creating a mailing list signup form with MODX and FormItBuilder

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:00:00 GMT

Here's an example of how you can use the FormItBuilder package for MODX to implement a simple mailing list signup form. Firstly, in MODX Manager download and install FormItBuilder (System &...

Xindi CMS version 2013.1.6 released

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 08:00:00 GMT

The latest version of Xindi CMS is available to download from GitHub. Xindi is a small, lightweight and flexible CFML content management system. It's great for web developers looking for ...

My new year's resolutions for 2013

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:00:00 GMT

So it's New Year's Eve and a good opportunity to review the resolutions I set myself a year ago. 2012 New Year's Resolutions Read the following books: jQuery: Nov...

Beck's rules of simple code

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:00:00 GMT

I'm currently reading Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin. The book references Kent Beck's rules of simple code which I thought I would share. In ...

Xindi CMS version 2012.12.8 released

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:00:00 GMT

The latest version of Xindi CMS is available to download from GitHub. Changes include an upgrade to the latest release of DI/1. Xindi is a small, lightweight and flexible CFML content man...

Adding a jQuery plugin to a single page in MODX

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:00:00 GMT

If you are using a jQuery plugin on a single page of your site, to optimise site performance, it's good practise to include the associated JavaScript and CSS files on only that page. In MODX yo...

Xindi CMS version 2012.11.23 released

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Today I released the latest version of Xindi CMS which is available to fork or download from GitHub. Xindi CMS is a small, lightweight and flexible CFML content management system. It's ...

Improving your HTML and CSS with SMACSS

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:00:00 GMT

I'm a big fan of frameworks and I'm always looking for new ways to improve the structure and maintainability of my code. I recently discovered SMACSS (Scalable and Modular Architecture for ...

Using a wildcard to delete files in Subversion (SVN)

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:00:00 GMT

In SVN you can delete all files in a directory using the wildcard character *. For example, to delete all files in the "trunk\_clientfiles\catalog\categories\" directory you can do this:...