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I know I didn’t have much time to coin some new blog posts, since I’m kind of hammered on work. But I thought of releasing a nice little plugin for jQuery that I created for a project. Maybe some of you would benefit from it, although it’s pretty easy to write. You can get it [...]
Continue readingWhat is validation?
Well, that’s easy: it’s the verification of certain constraints that have to be met when (in a web application’s case) a form is about to be submitted. It’s the first step in the form submission process.
Why do we need it?
Because our application’s users don’t bother reading explications and other text that’s not helping them solve their problem. They usually want to do everything as quick as possible and sometimes don’t fill in their name or email address (or other things that we might need from them). So we have to make our app foolproof by validating the user’s input and suggest that they have to give us the required info.
Continue readingSomething has to be done about the means of accessing the whole web’s content. I’m talking of course about the way we *see* websites.
One of my partners recently brought up the discussion of whether we should support Internet Explorer 6 for a project we were working on. IE6 doesn’t clearly offer what is needed in this day and age to properly view a website. I’m not going to go into the whole anti-IE propaganda, because it makes no sense. But, according to w3schools’ browser stats, IE6 still has 10.9% of the market. That’s quite a lot for a 8 year-old browser that wasn’t respecting the standards back then, so no luck hitting that point now.
Designers always have a hard time making their designs IE6-compatible. We need CSS hacks, Javascript and other means of making the website looking at least usable on this browser. These hacks can un-validate the markup or CSS, making your website’s layout less future-proof and trusted.
Continue readingMy Silent Blue Wordpress Theme was approved upon my submission to the wordpress.org theme directory today. It’s my first theme that I got to submit there and I’m pretty sure it’s just the first one 
For those of you who’ve been following my last tweets, you might have found out that I was really anxious to finish my second version of my website. As usual, I’ve been pretty deep in work lately, so this took more than I wanted to. But it’s finally here, and it should last more than the previous one (which I made in under a day of work, and I’m not that content of).
For the technical details – I used Wordpress as CMS and blogging platform.
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