Serban Ghita

kiNotice jQuery plugin

serban.ghita — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:06:02 +0000

Very simple to use notification system that pops from the bottom right of the screen

Today the majority of the web applications like news portals, social media platforms or administration interfaces contain a notification system that reminds the visitor/user about certain promotions or settings available.

The easiest way to show any kind of notification without obstructing the user's view is by introducing the message in the bottom right corner of the screen (browser). This is where jQuery plugin kiNotice comes into play to help you do that with ease.

CSS media queries and IE fix

serban.ghita — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:30:03 +0000

Use CSS media queries to display the same layout on multiple resolutions

UPDATE 09 January, 2012:
Take a peek at adapt.js is a lightweight JavaScript file that determines which CSS file to load before the browser renders a page.
Make sure you try respond.js - a fast & lightweight polyfill for min/max-width CSS3 Media Queries (for IE 6-8, and more)

Google AdWords Editor

serban.ghita — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:23:12 +0000

Free tool to edit and manage AdWords campaigns

Today I realized that I've wasted all the monthly budget in one week because of my bad campaign management. I did a little search over the Internet because I couldn't find a way to more an 'Ad group' from a 'Campaign' to another and I hit the jackpot. I've stumbled over Google AdWords Editor (~21 Mb).

Google AdWords Editor is good for:

Very Simple jQuery Slideshow

serban.ghita — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:30:54 +0000

The smallest slideshow for images and text made in jQuery

There are a lot of slideshows scripts out there and many of them are very useful. This is my attempt to create a jQuery slideshow as small (light) as possible with the following properties:

PHP gotcha of the day: tricky arrays

serban.ghita — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:29:14 +0000

Indexes, keys, values ... they all have some surprises for you

As a PHP programmer you are dealing with arrays every single day, meaning that there is a high probability of hitting some "unexpected" results. In this article we will not deal with array operations and functions.

Try to answer the following questions, we'll explain the results at the end of this article:

PHP gotcha of the day: echo AND print

serban.ghita — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:51:10 +0000

Output suprises from using echo and print

You will probably freak out because you have never saw echo and print working together, it's highly uncommon to see this in a production environment. Yet ... I've discovered an interesting PHP gotcha in the Zend Certified Engineer test question:

Add custom email address to your SugarCRM workflow

serban.ghita — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:29:57 +0000

How to send an email alert to a custom email using Group User feature

If you are using the 'Workflow Management' feature in SugarCRM you probably already created some basic workflows and ran into the following question: How do include a custom email address in the 'Alert recipients' list?

Here how you get the job done, in my case i am using Opportunities module as an example.

1. Go to Admin > User Management.

Drupal Feeds Social module

serban.ghita — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:26:59 +0000

Get search feeds from Twitter and aggregate them into nodes

I noticed the Feeds module intitative couple of months ago, and ever since i tried to find a way to make it work with custom feeds like Twitter search feed. Of course there are talks about how to do this, but i wanted a module that does it all for me.

I want my tea with SugarCRM 6

serban.ghita — Sun, 23 May 2010 12:17:24 +0000

Sugar 6 requires 20% fewer clicks to navigate than in previous versions.

SugarCRM 6 was announced on April 13th, 2010 as a way of celebrating the 5th anniversary of SugarForge and the SugarCRM OpenSource Community.

Here are some of the coolest features i've noticed in the SugarCRM 6 presentation video:

Drupal "The connection was reset"

serban.ghita — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:29:51 +0000

Common Drupal problem when working localy with a remote dumped db

I'm working on this blog on a local computer at home. I usualy modify the design and activate couple of modules to see how they perform before putting them live. Every day i am using a fresh MySQL database dump from my hosting provider GoDaddy, because i want to make sure i'm working with the latest data possible.

Localy my Drupal is configured to work without any optimizations.

However, on the remote production server i have it configured with the following 'Performance' options at admin/settings/performance: