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Firefox 4 is out!
We've just had IE 9 released and now the final version of Firefox 4 has come out too and spoilt IE's thunder. First impressions: brilliant! Easy upgrade, its fast and it looks great to boot.
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Internet Explorer 9 is here
This week saw the RTM release of Internet Explorer 9. It finally brings IE up to date with support for HTML 5, CSS 3 and a much faster Javascript engine. Please note: you may pick up a slight bias in the following post.
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CodeIgniter 2 has been released
A few days ago CodeIgniter 2 was (finally) released and I've now upgraded this site to run it. CI2 drops PHP 4 support and adds a 'core' branch for Ellis Labs own product development and a 'reactor' branch for community-led development. A good idea I think, considering the slow development progress of CI recently. Anyway my upgrade to CI2 wasn't exactly plain sailing and I've listed the problems -...
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Implementing the Metaweblog API in PHP - sending custom data
One of the problems of the Metaweblog API is that it is rigid in what data you should be sending and receiving. It supports a title, body, date, a list of categories and a publish boolean. There's no support for sending custom attributes or data of any kind.
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Implementing the Metaweblog API in PHP - handling multiple categories
If you've read my other post on the Metaweblog API or have followed along with this guide (which only handles one category) you might be wondering how to handle adding, editing and deleting multiple categories when working with the Metaweblog API.
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Latest site news
Site's now finally live. Yay!
16 May 2010
Second round of testing. Most features that I want to implement before the site goes properly live are implemented. Now just needs some content...
06 April 2010
The site is coming along slowly, but steadily. I now have a working blog rotator thanks to the wonderful jQuery UI. I am marginally concerned about the additional page load times that it adds but won't really know if it's a problem until the site is live. I can use the Google CDN I suppose but as I generated a custom .js file, I'd have to sacrifice that functionality. I did consider using jQuery tools as an alternative to jQuery UI, but decided against it as it seems to be more about fancy effects rather than UI components.