February 9th, 2010


Create a simple content rotation script with fading effect using JQuery

by Dragos, on November 24th, 2008  

I came up with a simple solution to rotate some divs, having a cute fade in effect. For that i used JQuery.
Supposing you have a div container, you put in it smaller divs which you will use for rotation.

Content in div number one.
Content in div number two.
Content in div number three.

Notice that each div to [...]

First Impressions: Firefox 3.1 or latest Minefield

by Dragos, on November 24th, 2008  

I had a little free time this morning and i thought of trying the newest Firefox beta edition Firefox 3.1 beta 2 or latest Minefield (this is the same). I’ve noticed that many of the plugins are still incompatible with this new version, so that maybe the reason why Firefox 3.1 has still not been [...]

New Google Search Engine Feature: SearchWiki

by Dragos, on November 21st, 2008  

I was positively surprised to see today next to my searches in Google some new icons.  It looked like this:
First of all i thought it was a new feature of any of my plugins installed in FireFox, but after scrolling to the bottom of the result page i noticed it was a new feature from [...]

Google Analytics “An error has occurred”

by Dragos, on November 21st, 2008  

Just wanted to log into my Google Analytics account, but I couldn’t because of that error. I think it is a problem from their side, from google’s, because i tried to clear my cookies+authenticated data and it didn’t solve the problem.
Note: It’s working now. Indeed it was a server issue. Howether i found the Google [...]

Jquery slide effect

by Dragos, on November 18th, 2008  

I needed to know what happens when Jquery applies the slide effect animation to an element. I read in their documentation they told it changes the height (didn’t specify which one). I tried to read it with $(“#el”).css(“height”) , but it was not the one i needed. Then i tried $(“#el”).attr(“offsetHeight”) which is what i [...]

Best Apache+MySQL+PHP+FTP web server package

by Dragos, on November 18th, 2008  

As any other web developer, before uploading something functional to a remote server, first of all i need to test my work on my computer, right? I’ve tried many packages like TopServer (not supported any more), STPServer, EasyPHP, but from all that i tried i stuck with Xampp.
XAMPP is an easy to install distribution of [...]

SEO Terms Definitions

by Dragos, on November 13th, 2008  

SEO – search engine optimization. This consists in optimizing a web page so it ranks well in search engine results pages (serp).
SERP – search engine result pages (or search engine result position). This means the position of a web page in the result page returned by a search engine. Lower serp is better.
Spider – this [...]

Firefox 3.0.4 is available

by Dragos, on November 13th, 2008  

If you have disabled autoupdating dont forget to update to the newest version of Firefox 3.0.4 .

New features in Google Analytics: Custom Reports and Advanced Segmentation

by Dragos, on November 7th, 2008  

I just visited my Google Analytics page when i noticed new features, again! These are Custom Reporting and Advanced Segments.
With custom reporting you can do reports of whatever you want. For example i have created a report for showing me how much page views i get from every traffic source. But still, there is more [...]

How to considerably decrease the number of spam comments in your blog

by Dragos, on November 7th, 2008  

Since i opened my blog (it’s almost 2 months since then) i got 142 spam comments on my blog posts. I am really annoyed to visit the dashboard of my blog and see the Akismet stats “You have 15 spam comments awaiting for moderation”. All these comments are shitty links to vl@gr@ products and intimate [...]

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