Well recently i had to design a list rotator and use mootools to create the effect. Did some thinking and got a simple logic to do so . Remove the first element, get the list and append the data of the first element to the list. Well so it rotates and the effect looks cool. [...]
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Right click menu, awesomeness
If you have not seen this effect in action, i recommend you to visit akismet.com and right click on their logo, else here is a Demo that i made. I’ve got to say seeing this in the akismet site was quite inspiring. Well, isn’t it a cool effect and I have got to say they [...]
CSS Sprites – What? Why? and How?
I had this article on the pipeline for quite too long and right when i was in the middle of it, i found the best article (http://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/)that says exactly what i wanted to, but in a much better way. So, why waste energy writing an article that has already been :). Other awesome articles regarding [...]
The Previous page, Next page dilemma
I don’t know why i never thought of this but recently, i just landed to a random page of a blog. Now, i wanted to see some older posts but there were two links “Next Page” and “Previous Page” . Frankly speaking this is a little too confusing because in one way, i had to [...]
adieu Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)
Recently i had the time to check on the Browser Statistics for all the visits in my site. It was a sweet surprise to see that exactly 1 visitor used Internet Explorer 6 (Grow up man!!). I think finally the time has come to ditch the support for IE6 and move on to better codes [...]
Bye Bye Analytics, Hello! Piwik !!!
It just happened! I was browsing through the gnome.org website and reading about the tshirt design contest that they are going to host and then came the thought. gnome.org uses google analytics or not ???. Did a bit of digging and then found piwik to what I call is the diamond (as i had done [...]
Setup Ruby on rails on ubuntu 10.04
Pretty easy, sequence of commands and we’re done First, update all repositories sudo apt-get update Installing the default ruby stack apt-get install irb ruby rdoc libopenssl-ruby ruby-dev Download rubygems from http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126 then install as below tar xzvf rubygems-1.3.7.tgz cd rubygems-1.3.7 sudo ruby setup.rb have gem point to the 1.8 binary sudo update-alternatives –install /usr/bin/gem gem [...]