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Archive for the ‘Web development’ Category

Dojo: hasDownArrow property of dijit.form.FilteringSelect

Monday, March 12th, 2012

If set to false the hasDownArrow property of the FilteringSelect makes drop down arrow invisible. This can be useful in some situations. For example if you want to represent the data not as drop down list but as a tree. In this case you can set the drop down arrow to invisible, define your own button right to the FilteringSelect and show up a dialog with the tree representation if the user clicks on you custom button. (more…)

Comment Notifier Plugin for WordPress.

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

Today I decided to try out Comment Notifier plugin for my WordPress. You’ll find now a checkbox “Notify me when new comments are added” under the comment form. At a first glance this plugin makes a good impression! It installed itself properly and after a little configuration it could send already notification mails! Great! (more…)

Drupal, Plazes, GMap Module and some Speculations.

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Already two days I bear in mind an idea of creating a kind of a social network that would support GEO services. I have already introduced the German startup Plazes. What I don’t really like about this project is that for me as a consumer this service is too special. (more…)

JSSpamBlock Plugin for WordPress.

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Searching for a plugin for WordPress preventing spam bots to make comments to your postings, I found a really fine solution called JSSpamBlock plugin. If JavaScript support in your browser is turned off, you see a familiar input field where you have to put in a certain number when you are about to submit your comment. But if it’s on you (more…)

Shoutbox module in Drupal.

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Yesterday I made an effort to install Shoutbox module for the 5.x release of Drupal on my Life website. I was disappointed. In the former version this module was quite stable and offered a variety of features that the new version does not support anymore. What I really miss in (more…)

Drupal’s Image_Galleries Module.

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

I was pleasantly surprised having installed the current version of Drupal’s Image Galleries Module on my Life website. Two years ago this module was pretty buggy and one had to invest much time to make it work properly. (more…)

Snap shots for the links on your web site.

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Snap shots is an online service that generates and shows a preview of web sites that are linked on your page. Each time the mouse cursor is moved over the link there appears a preview window. To use the service you should go to Snap shots web site and proceed four steps. First of all you configure the look and feel of the preview window, so that it stays (more…)