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Dynamic Child Element Heights with jQuery simplyScroll
simplyScroll is a compact little jQuery plugin that auto-scrolls child elements of a container div that you call it on with jQuery. So, for example if you have the following unordered list: <ul id="list"> <li>Item 1</li> <li>Item 2</li> <li>Item 3</li> </ul> Then you can call simplyScroll on the list as follows: $(document.ready(function(){ $("#list").simplyScroll({ autoMode: ‘loop’ [...]
Into the Social Sphere
Back in the early to mid nineties, businesses all wanted to “get online” to establish their web presence on the (then) newly popular “information super-highway.” Having a website was promised to bring them untold riches and an exponential increase in customers. Even brick-and-mortar local businesses that didn’t offer any services not available on site joined [...]
Joel Spolsky Is Not Magic
Joel Spolsky is treated with reverence by the programming community. It seems like every blog post, comment, interview, Tumble, etc. that has his name associated with it ends up on Hacker News or Reddit. Certainly he has a profound impact on the programming community and many, many people take his words as gospel. I’ve been [...]
Writing an AJAX Google Search Appliance Connector – Part 1: PHP
I started working a summer internship position with the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in mid March. The university just purchased a Google Search Appliance and my job is the rollout of the appliance. Right now the university’s search is running on a Google Mini, which is quickly being outgrown. So, we’re developing a web service to [...]