I know, I’ve raved about Sublime Text 2 before, but now that it’s fully integrated into my workflow (and I even own a license for it!), I thought I’d share my most used packages for it.
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Twittoh Launch
An archive of OH tweets
Twittoh is a mini project I created with Chris Willerton. He took the lead on the design and HTML/CSS, and I coded the twitter bits.
Sublime Text 2 Review
A great new IDE
I’m a NetBeans user, but recently I’ve found it to be too bloated and slow. Then I heard about Sublime Text 2, which promised to be a
“sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose. You’ll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features”
Well, I thought, it doesn’t hurt to give it a go, and I’m glad I did. Here are my pros and cons so far.
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First Published Nettuts Tutorial!
AJAX File upload in CodeIgniter and MVC
I’ve actually written up a more complete tutorial, which has been published on Nettuts+. You should go and read that instead!
Trying to set up AJAX file uploading within CodeIgniter can be a serious pain. I tried multiple scripts before settling on one that actually worked, so if you’re having trouble, keep on reading.
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TF Popup Launch
jQuery Popup/Lightbox Plugin
I’ve done a silly thing; I’ve created another jQuery popup/lightbox script. I’m not usually one to reinvent the wheel, I’d much rather use someone else’s probably superior code, but this time I needed something a little different (much like with TF Assets).
TF Popup is a jQuery plugin aimed at developers. It gives you full theming control and is really flexible; it can be used for simple information modal popups, to full login/registration forms complete with validation.
It includes a small API to help when validating your form, doing a lot of the display leg work for you.
TF Assets Launch
A New CodeIgniter Asset/Layout Library
One thing I dislike about CodeIgniter is the way it handles views and assets; it can get very messy as your site grows. I did used to use Bucket, which I’ve blogged about before, but I found the overhead for some features I didn’t use (and couldn’t seem to get to work) too much.
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API Pet Peeves
I’ve been doing a lot of work recently using various APIs, including creating some myself, and I’ve noticed quite a few seem to have annoying traits.
I mainly work with REST APIs, so this post will focus on them; although most of the points can be transferred across to others.
Games that Deserve a Sequel
Thinking about all the sequels currently being released (Killzone 3, MvC3, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Crysis 2 etc), I got to wondering about the forgotten games that would be amazing if recreated using current gen tech.
Recreating Dabble.in’s Homepage in CSS3
I was recently pointed towards Dabble.in where I, like many others it seems, instantly loved the cool rollover effect.
The first thing I did was inspect element to see how it was done (like pretty much every web developer I know did), and it turns out the effect is incredibly simple. It’s mainly CSS3 with a sprinkling of jQuery. Here’s how to replicate it, and why (I think) they used jQuery when it isn’t actually needed.