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.
After working on it for a few months, leaving it for a few months, redesigning it and leaving it again, I am proud to finally launch the new Toddish.co.uk.
Well, this happened quicker than I thought it would!
The outlook was bleak when I first started playing as Hakan; I just couldn’t get the hang of him at all. I was getting eaten up by flowchart Kens and random DPs.
I was finding it hard to find obvious combos and his normals seemed so slow. I had no idea what to do in most situations, and found I couldn’t even punish whiffed ultras with anything good and resorted to a simple oil slide.
Then I read a little about him; turns out Hakan is pretty woeful unless you oil him up!
I’m not really all that bothered about chasing achievements in games, but I’ve decided to try and get the “From C to Shining C” trophy in Super Street Fighter IV. The basic aim of the trophy is to play with each character online, winning enough matches to gain a 1000BP, which is rank C.
I’ve been using a Mac at work now for nearly 3 months and, having never used one for development before, it’s really not the Holy Grail I’d heard it made out to be.
So here’s why Windows (7) is better.
Update – I’ve actually created my own CodeIgniter templating system called TF Assets. It’s a simpler, lightweight version of Bucket, complete with documentation. If you want, check it out!!
Tonight I decided to implement a templating system into CodeIgniter for a site I am making, something which I thought would be simple given that CI has lots of good libraries out there ready and waiting. It’s not, it’s a massive pain.
A few days a late maybe, but I thought I’d do a post about my time at Barcamp London 8.
For those that don’t know, a barcamp is an “unconference”. Anyone that goes can do a talk, but it’s not mandatory. You choose a time and a room on what’s known as the “grid” (basically a timetable), and then spend the rest of your time seeing other peoples talks. Anyway, I’ll start from the beginning.
I’m looking for the best framework to use when making sites in PHP, and I’ve narrowed it down to three; CodeIgniter, Kohana and Fuel.
My latest project was to redesign and build my band Chanabra a new website. Since then I’ve redesigned a bit, The information below is still useful, just don’t use my site as an example!. We aren’t particularly well known and don’t have a large fan base (yet!) so we only really needed something simple that we could update with news and new songs. Myspace is dying, (yet we still have one) and I think having a standalone site looks much better.
I still use msn. I know it’s old, and I only have about 10 friends left on it, 3 of which I actually talk to every now and again.
Having said that, I was quite excited when I saw a new update was available, and even more excited when I noticed the first new feature!