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grid960 bookmarklet – now with 24 columns

badlyDrawnToy — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:45:47 +0000

I recently received a request to update the grid960 bookmarklet to support 24 columns. I hadn't realsied that 960.gs had been updated. So, here it is!

kosearch – Zend Lucene Search module for Kohana framework

badlyDrawnToy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:27:03 +0000

I’ve finally got round to releasing kosearch – a Kohana search module. It’s an implementation of Zend (Lucene) Search, a file-based search/index solution. kosearch provides a simple way to index and search Models. It’s perfect for a web site that might contain news, products etc. kosearch also exposes the underlying Zend libraries so that other [ more » ]

IE8 Rounded Corners using jQuery

badlyDrawnToy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:33:59 +0000

This site continues to receive a large amount of traffic from people searching for a solution to achieving rounded corners in IE8. Clearly, it’s a hot topic, and my previous post about using DD_Roundies has hopefully helped developers along their way. I recently had an issue with DD_Roundies where the border width was 1 pixel [ more » ]

How to run custom PHP code in WordPress – the right way

badlyDrawnToy — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:51:46 +0000

There are numerous Wordpress plugins that allow PHP code to be executed form within Wordpress. However, installing a plugin is only half the solution. To run the PHP code efficiently requires a few more steps.

Tethering the iPhone : My Experience plus o2′s secret little bmi.js file

badlyDrawnToy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:22:12 +0000

I recently moved house, and in the process lost my broadband connection for longer than anticipated. Having looked into the various USB Dongle solutions, I decided to opt for a tethered connection form my iPhone. I learned a lot from my week or so working this way – about my productivity, and about how affective [ more » ]

grid960 – a grid overlay bookmarklet for 960.gs

badlyDrawnToy — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:24:22 +0000

This bookmarklet has now been updated to support 24 columns Please also see grid960 bookmarklet – now with 24 columns/ A couple of days ago I released a jQuery plugin that provides a grid overlay when working with the 960.gs css grid framework. The plugin seems to have been quite popular, and as a result [ more » ]

960.gs grid overlay – a jQuery plugin

badlyDrawnToy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:54:25 +0000

I’ve now released a bookmarklet to provide a simpler gird overlay. Please also see grid960 – a grid overlay bookmarklet for 960.gs I’ve been using 960.gs on a few sites recently. Without wanting to get into a discussion about the pros/cons of using css grid frameworks, I find them useful for some sites. The 960.gs [ more » ]

IE8 Rounded Corners

badlyDrawnToy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:21:54 +0000

Also see updated post about suitable jQuery plugin Last night I finally got round to upgrading my Win XP VMWare image from IE8 beta to the production release. A bit slack on my behalf as the browser was released about 3 weeks ago. Still, I’d been testing websites in the beta release and all was [ more » ]

Manchester Digital – Network Fail #manchesterdigital #mdagm09

badlyDrawnToy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:04:58 +0000

Last night I attended the Manchester Digital AGM. The primary reason for my attendance was to try to get my good friend, and collaborator, Stephen Greene, elected to the council. Having travelled in from Macclesfield I was little frustrated to discover that I couldn’t vote – I’m part of a Company membership, and only the [ more » ]

Replacing target=”_blank” for Strict XHTML using JQuery (redux)

badlyDrawnToy — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:51:40 +0000

Some time ago, I provided a simple JQuery solution for replacing target="_blank" when writing Strict XHTML. However, one commenter recently pointed out that my solution does not work if the rel attribute contains more than one value e.g. rel="external nofollow" Well, JQuery to the rescue again. A very slight modification to the Attribute Filter fixes [ more » ]