I'm Wil & I build websites

Flickr short URL bookmarklet

13th June 2010

I was getting annoyed with the whole view source > find canonical link > copy shenanigans when trying to get a Flickr short URL so I’ve put this little chap together. It’s a bit quick and dirty, so if you run into problems just let me know and I’ll sort them out. Similarly, if you find it useful drop me a line.

I’ve tried to add the bookmarklet to this entry, but ExpressionEngine doesn’t like the idea, so it’s on it’s own page here.

Dan Wellman’s jQuery UI 1.7 book

21st February 2010

The jQuery ui is essentially a set of pre built, ready to use JavaScript widgets based (obviously) on the jQuery framework. They can be really useful straight out of the box, or as the foundation for something more complex, and they also come packaged with a decent set of CSS themes.

According to Dan Wellman himself, his book is written for…

…front end designers and developers who need to quickly learn how to use the jQuery UI library. To get the most out of this book you should have a good working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript ,and will need to be comfortable using jQuery, the underlying foundation of the jQuery UI.

Delicious and Fever sitting in a tree

10th February 2010

I use delicious a lot, and I’ve been using a very small network with no real enthusiasm, until recently that is! I found myself becoming lazier and lazier with my delicious bookmarks, frequently just scavenging my network’s bookmarks for interesting things and saving them to my own. The people in …

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