http://blog.slajax.com secure lightweight ajax solutions ubuntu_logo.jpg Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:46:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ubuntu_logo.jpg Thanks to the awesome CTO and Senior Python Programmer at fotoglif.com where I worked previously, Linux has become much more then a novelty in my tool set. While working there, I made the decision that I would go forth and adopt Ubuntu as my exclusive desktop of choice in all ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/08/12/why-i-only-use-linux-at-work/ dojo.png Since I joined Blast Radius I have been introduced to a lot of new and interesting development practices, frameworks and designs that I have always read or heard about, but was never really forced or motivated to imply in my daily progression. One such framework I wrote briefly about is Mojo. ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/07/23/javascript-cross-domain-ajax/ ../uploads/2008/07/blast_front_door.jpg So as of monday my first full week at Blast Radius is completed. As you can see from the terribly pixelated photo above, I found it with no issues. It just so happens that my apartment is much closer then I originally thought. I literally have been leaving for work ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/07/17/first-week-at-blast-radius-over/ I always knew that Canada was a very large country, but I never realized exactly how large until we passed Sault St Marie and lobbed ourselves around the Huron and Lake Superior. The truth is that northern Ontario doesn't have much to it. Lots of shoreline, a few Can-ops, and ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/06/23/bc-or-bust-halfway-point/ blast.jpg I've been working hard over the last few years in Toronto to perfect my craft, and I knew eventually I would be relocating to the west coat again for work. It had always been my dream to do what I'm doing now, only with the mountains and coast line by ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/06/17/relocating-to-vancouver-senior-interface-developer/ agent_ultra.jpg My good friend Mr Ultra writes that he believes PHP is soon to be an obsolete language because of it's late adoption of such ever so necessary concepts such as namespaces. I personally will have to disagree. I believe that the successful adoption of PHP being so high has a ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/06/17/re-php-obsolete/ sutori.jpg I've been pretty excited over the last week about the new experiences coming up so I did some digging around and found Sutori.com which is a Blast Radius sponsored pro-sumer driven social network for people to connect and share their experiences and information about products and companies. The whole concept behind ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/06/17/sutori-and-second-hand-consumer-experiences/ Mushroom Life is a very interesting flash application that requires a lot of clicking. The application shows a very nicely laid out 3d area that when you click mushrooms grow. However, there are rules to this game as follows: For each generation, a mushroom with 1 or 0 neighbor dies (loneliness), a mushroom ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/02/14/mushroom-life/ This is probably one of the coolest source code visualizations I have ever seen. I'm not exactly sure how they did it. Points to whomever can explain it!read more | digg story http://blog.slajax.com/2008/02/14/xentheon-where-is-my-mind/ realestate-tag.jpg So here is something I was reading on Tech Crunch this morning about real estate start ups on the web. Cyber Homes, a startup that I would loved to have been the founder of is a real estate mapping service that provides high level overviews and more specific statistics based ... http://blog.slajax.com/2007/11/12/realestate-2-0/ opensocial.jpg So finally the powers that be have chosen to use their voice in an attempt to show the world what "open" really is. We've seen a lot of improvement in the social networking field over the last 2 years, with leadsers such as Linked In and Sales Force showing the ... http://blog.slajax.com/2007/11/09/open-social-is-finally-here/ akelos.gif I have recently discovered Akelos a wonderfully efficient framework that allows you to control scaffolding and generate controllers in much the same way that you would in Ruby on Rails. Not only is the framework designed to cut corners, but it also has an amazingly useful version control system, that ... http://blog.slajax.com/2007/08/24/akelos-a-pragmatic-php-framework/ bash.gif So I got bored of always manually installing the content management system, so i wrote a little bash script to take care of all the good stuff. I haven't written bash in a long time, but I really like it. It's some of the most useful code I've ever written. ... http://blog.slajax.com/2007/07/30/bash-installation-script/ scenemap.gif scenemap.net is a new slajax project that combines the power of live maps with the data of facebook, to allow you to easily find directions to your favorite concert. Although it is only in alpha stages, it is promising to be quite a wonderfully useful mash up for scene kids ... http://blog.slajax.com/2007/06/07/scenemap-alpha-release-preview/ opensource_or_death.gif Thanks to Inviz for this great comic posted via #mootools on irc.freenode.net http://blog.slajax.com/2007/05/04/open-source-or-death/ sLedit.gif I've had a lot of requests to send people mooEdit. Thing is, that I'm way to lazy to package the whole thing. So I'm just going to post the source here, and let you figure it out. It's pretty easy, I'm sure you can do it. Oh yeah, and if ... http://blog.slajax.com/2007/04/26/mooedit-v-1/ validate.gif So I had to write a validation script for sLquantity. The idea is simply that if any items ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /* sLvalidate - v1.0 - 5:16 PM 20/03/2007 @author: kc@slajax.com @validates entries for sLquantity before posting to update cookie var sLvalidateOpts = { items:'select', // boxes to gather submitBtn: 'button', // id of submit button valid: true ... http://blog.slajax.com/2007/03/20/sl-validate/ quantity.gif So the idea was that we needed a form input that could be duplicated multiple times within the shopping cart. This allows the customer to add multiple items with different variations (ie: color / size) to the cart and then post it to the payment gateway. First of all, here ... http://blog.slajax.com/2007/03/16/sl-quantity/ firstpost.gif Well for the first post, it's probably fitting that I post the code that does the neat little header effect. Here ya go: window.onload = function(){ var intro = new Fx.Styles('headerImg', { duration: 450, transition: Fx.Transitions.linear, onStart: function(){ $('headerImg').setOpacity(0); $('headerImg').setStyle('display','inline'); }, onComplete: function(){ secondIntro = new Fx.Styles('headerImg', { duration: 950, wait: 200, transition: Fx.Transitions.linear }); secondIntro.start({ 'margin-left': [0, 550] }); } }); intro.start({ 'opacity': ... http://blog.slajax.com/2007/03/13/post-number-one/