For a “force download script” to which i send as variable a full URL, i needed to convert this url into the local path, so that the system can check whether the file exists or not, and then read it to output with the correct mimetype. Here is what i came up with. It seems [...]

Jon Hobbs-Smith wrote an excellent roundup of 25 good coding habits when using jquery. If your javascript library of choice is jquery, make sure you read it, it’s worth a 40USD book! I was particularly interested to read tip#14: 14. Even better, use jQuery’s internal data() method to store state It’s not very well documented [...]

At LAb[au], we run our own house-made mailinglist software, which we use to regularly update our 4K users about next performances and events with a graphically appetizing newsletter. The tool is in constant improvement since five years and I recently added a way to track opened-email statistics through a simple technique : an img tag [...]

I’m proud to officially announce the launch of a new portfolio for Barcelona-based professional photographer Lisa Pram.

It is now official: today I’ve dumped Aptana Studio, with a sore heart, frustration and a bad taste in the mouth for not knowing why it suddenly gave up on me and didn’t want to show me anything beyond its splashscreen after two years of good service. So i had to rely on another editor [...]

Among the bunch of new entries added to the jquery plugin repository today, one of them caught my attention as being a really clever way to display a huge list of entries in a nicely digestible manner: the ListNav jquery plugin.

I was introduced two years ago to the jQuery javascript library via the thickbox script which, among other things, allows to load external urls inside a modal window, a neat feature enhancing user experience as it provides a more visual continuity between the current window and the next.

Wow, just discovered that this age old php class super useful for generating and sending emails (for things like online newsletter systems, email marketing, etc.) has been overhauled and is now maintained by codeworxtech. Apparently, there is now a php5 version, alongside the nicely wrapped up PHP4 version. The amount of new functionalities and bug [...]

I couldn’t care less for the actual content of this EcoDazoo website, but the 3D rendering is blazingly fast! I suspect this was done with Papervision 3D. Watch it here.