JavaScript Toggle Button using jQuery
Not that there aren’t enough examples & implementations of javascript toggle buttons on Google, here’s another to add to the collection. This plugins main features / capabilities are: Cross browser...
View ArticleMy big fat ambitious ‘bucket list’
“Anyone motivated to be successful—to really make an impact with your life—has a list of things they want to do.” - thrillingheroics.com My constantly changing list of goals to accomplish before I kick...
View ArticleThe quickest way to add a custom folder icon in C# .NET
There are lots of long-winded methods out there that show you how to add / change a folders icon, below is a short C# class method that just gets the job done. To change a folder icon we need to...
View ArticleC# Animated Tray Icon
Overview Animated tray icons are a useful way of alerting users of changes to your applications state. Unfortunately the .NET frameworks tray icon offering doesn’t support animation so I decided to...
View ArticleCountDown Gadget (Version 2)
A brand new version of my simple count down timer. Changeable skins, font styles, sizes, colours, time display formats & more. Features: A new more up-to-date look and feel Counts up as well as...
View ArticleTheme Development in Concrete 5.7 – HTML5 Starter Theme
I’ve used concrete5 for the last few years when developing anything from small ten page websites to complex 500+ page sites with workflows and advanced permission sets. It’s an amazing CMS but one...
View ArticleSheet Faker: Dummy / test CSV & XLSX (Excel) file generation
Recently I’ve had the need to generate extremely large CSV, ODS & XLSX files for testing. I’ve ended up creating a CSV dummy data generation tool in PHP which is capable of generating large...
View ArticleLaravel: Get the right totals using aggregate queries such as count(), avg(),...
Laravels fluent query markup makes life real easy, too easy sometimes. Getting $query->groupBy(‘column’)->count() to spit out the correct count for the recordset instead of the total before the...
View ArticleHow I saved £281+ per year subscribing to Amazon Prime
‘Wait, what? £79 for a year?’ my mother exclaimed as I explained why I would order her the latest book and get it delivered free. Here was another person I was going to have to explain why I thought...
View ArticleHTML: 15 of the most asked questions
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is the cornerstone of the modern internet. Below you can find the questions people ask most about the language, its elements and tags. HTML was originally released in...
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