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Programming and Practice
I’ve been thinking about practice lately—and about growth. Here are some thoughts: Programming is a complicated job. Many people see it as a craft, and as craftsmen, programmers must spend countless hours honing their skills and improving their expertise to reach a level to compete at the level they desire to be at. For example: [...]
Joomla Sphinx Search Plugin
Beware, this is beta quality software. Use at your own risk. As we understand already, Joomla doesn’t have relevant searching. It’s a shame since everything else is designed well, but this is a problem regarding implementation. This article explains how to setup sphinx to index your Joomla articles and use my plugin to search using [...]
Caching in Joomla 1.5 with Fault Tolerance
If you’ve used Joomla before, you may be aware that there are built-in caching features which you can activate to reduce the number of expensive database calls needed to render a page. This feature is also available to your own custom code, whether that be in the form of components, modules, or plugins. The actual [...]
IE Caching Ajax Requests When It Shouldn’t
I’ve noticed some difficulty in Ajax controls not working correctly in IE (any version). This may be old news for many of you, but I’m going to post it anyway—hopefully someone will use it. The Problem: Ajax requests don’t seem to be working in IE, but there aren’t any error messages and nothing fails like [...]
Using Cufon for Text Replacement
Up until a few days ago I didn’t realize that you could use canvas tags for text-replacment, but then I read this article. http://kilianvalkhof.com/2009/javascript/cufon-vs-typefacejs-which-one-is-better/ Since reading about this article I’ve want to play with Cufón to see how it stacks up. Here’s a little example for you. Using Cufón for Text Replacement, an Example and [...]
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