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29/03/08
Balupton.com | Upcoming
I’ve done up the base of my new site here: http://www.balupton.com/home/
Feel free to leave any feedback you can.
16/02/08
Templating System Concepts (the evolution)
Templating Systems are extremely important in web development. They allow us to manage our designs to make them more usable for the user, and more efficient for developers and designers to work with.
Recent developments such as Jaxer (AJAX Server) will allow us to take this to the next evolutionary step. Refer to my previous post Jaxer, the silver bullet for more information on Jaxer and Templating.
I have published a “report” that I have been working on the past few weeks, that details and provides examples of the evolutionary steps of templating systems.
Here are the levels that are included in the report:
Level 0 - Static
Level 1 - Includes
Level 1 - Conditional
Level 2 - Shortcuts
Level 3 - Population
Level 4.0 - Separation
Level 4.1 - Separation (Defaults)
Level 4.2 - Separation (Mixture)
Level 5 - Dedicated Solutions (Templating Engine)
Level 6 - Client Side Templating (Not Fully Functional)
Level 7 - Dual Side Templating (Separate Installations) (Not Fully Functional)
Level 8 - Dual Side Templating (Single Installation) (Not Fully Functional)
Templating Engines Used:
Smarty and JSmarty.
To view and download the report visit here:
http://www.balupton.com/sandbox/templates/
Thanks.
Note (16/02/2008):
Unfortunately, JSmarty is still not in a position to be usable, hence the “Not Fully Functional” notices. Hopefully this project will gain more attention and reach that stage. But for the purpose of showing a concept, it still works well.
Update (17/02/2008):
I decided to make my own javascript smarty template engine, you can check it out it’s progress here:
Balupton’s jQuery Smarty Plugin
03/12/07
jQuery Lightbox Plugin
Lightboxes are a way to display a image on the same page elegantly.
Features:
- Lightboxes can be grouped together.
- Titles and descriptions for images.
- Automatic url detection and inclusion of required files, so no configuration is needed.
* So all you need to do is include it’s single .js file and you are good to go. - Greedy elements (flash, object, select) are hidden away and re-shown appropriatly.
- New / Optimized design.
- Proper jQuery Plugin.
- Provides many easy automatic and manual ways of creating and starting lightboxes.
- Only 15KB in size! (Includes all js, css and image files).
Take a look at the demo site http://www.balupton.com/sandbox/jquery_lightbox/ to see it in action, as well as examples of it’s usage.
Based upon Lokesh Dhakar’s Lightbox 2: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
Grab it here.
24/07/07
Education Research Solutions
EducationResearch.com.au is my baby. (I’m probably the mother, and Dean Usher is the father, as dean provided the seed, and I crafted it). It was/is developed for Education Research Solutions, from my knowledge the leading Curriculum Organiser company for Western Australian education facilities, but not just limited to WA, it is a national and international company.
The website is built upon my Resource Library. So behind the website is a huge backend full of OO (Object Orientation). It allowed me to build the website extremely quickly and securely.
My Resource Library (& Database Interface)
Post yet to be made.
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Services / Products
- Aptana Studio
Why? Aptana Studio offers unparalleled tooling for Ajax including HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript editing and debugging, plus support via additional free plugins for PHP, Ruby on Rails, Adobe AIR, Apple iPhone development.
- Facebook
The next big thing on the web. A Social Networking Revolution. It has a great dev api allowing you to build applications for it.
- Firefox Extension: Adblock Plus
Blocks all adverts.
- Firefox Extension: Edit Cookies
Lets you view, create, and edit cookies.
- Firefox Extension: Firebug
Lets me debug my javascript work, and inspect the DOM of a website easily.
- Firefox Extension: Greasemonkey
Lets you make (or install other) javascript scripts that are attached to specified pages. Mainly used to change the display of a page to your liking “permanently".
- Firefox Extension: Html Validator
When viewing the html source of the page, it highlights the code, displays validation information (and suggested fixes) for lines with problems, as well as a “cleanup” button that fixes everything.
- Firefox Extension: Quick Java
Provides two little buttons in the status bar which you can click to turn on or off java and javascript.
- Firefox Extension: Tab Mix Plus
Allows me to make tabs behave and display exactly the way I want them to.
- Firefox Extension: Tamper Data
Lets you easily modify and view data within page request headers as they are happening. You can also allow or deny requests. Great for hacking.
- Firefox Extension: User Agent Switcher
Lets you easily switch your user agent to another inside firefox. You can also create your own user agent headers.
- Firefox Extension: Web Developer
Provides a lot of functions and things that you can use to help with the website development process.
- Google Personalized Home
Keeps me up to date with all I care about in my chosen theme.
- jQuery (Javascript Library)
jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
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