April 20th, 2009
jQuery Endless Scroll Updated
Posted by Fred Wu
The jQuery Endless Scroll plugin has been updated.
A bug caused by ‘fireDelay‘ is fixed.
Please head over to the release post or the jQuery plugin site for the download link.
March 14th, 2009
[Screenshot] Windows 7 is Created From The Future
Posted by Fred Wu
Today I decided to upgrade my Windows 7 build 7000 to the latest build 7057. The system is installed on my Fujitsu P1610 which I use as an e-book reader and ultra-portable.
I ran the DVD inside Windows, then I chose to archive the old installation and install the new version from scratch.
Here is a screenshot of the archived Windows folder, apparently Microsoft has implemented some alien technologies we are not aware of that magically bend time!
Click on the thumbnail for the full size image.
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March 11th, 2009
Yii Kohana Bridge updated: full Kohana flavour now added!
Posted by Fred Wu
I have just pushed some updates to the Git repository.
The entire Kohana distribution is now included. The bridging class is now renamed to ‘Kbridge’.
Not all helpers and libraries will work at the moment, especially the ones that reference Kohana core classes. I am however planning to bridge the core classes and configuration files for tighter integration.
If you have any suggestions please let me know. :)
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March 2nd, 2009
SyntaxHighlighter Plus v1.0b2 Released
Posted by Fred Wu
I have just updated SyntaxHighlighter Plus to v1.0b2. Please see the project page.
If you have been using v1.0b2 already, please re-download the package and overwrite the existing one, as WordPress had mistakenly put the SVN version tag for v1.0b2.
Change log:
- Upgraded SyntaxHighlighter to 2.0.296
- Added automatic SSL detection (thanks to g30rg3_x)
- Added anti-XSS and XSRF (thanks to g30rg3_x)
- Language aliases fix
- Code clean up
I will contribute to the Alex’s SyntaxHighlighter project for problems and bugs people have reported. Contributed code will then be merged back to SyntaxHighlighter Plus.
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March 2nd, 2009
Choosing a PHP Framework Round 2: Yii vs Kohana vs CodeIgniter
Posted by Fred Wu
It was over a year ago that I wrote the article that compares CodeIgniter and Kohana. Since then both CodeIgniter and Kohana have seen major progress with the release of CodeIgniter 1.7.0 and Kohana 2.3.
In December 2008, a new PHP framework called Yii has been released to the public with a stable 1.0. There were a lot of new PHP framework released in 2008, but Yii was one of the more recognised ones because:
- The author, Qiang Xue, is the author of the well established PRADO framework.
- It is a simple to use, well organised, PHP 5 only MVC framework.
- It claims to have astonishing performance.
Before I start this round of comparison, let me briefly list my experience with these frameworks, so you may interpret this article with your own judgement.
CodeIgniter: I started using CodeIgniter since its version 1.2.x from a few years ago. During the past few years I have worked on projects mainly using version 1.5.x and 1.6.x. I have now stopped using CodeIgniter in favour of using other PHP 5 only frameworks.
Kohana: I first started using Kohana when it was called BlueFlame back when it was first forked out of CodeIgniter. Since then I have lurked and participated in the Kohana community. All of my recent projects are done in Kohana.
Yii: The 1.0 release of Yii had my attention, but I didn’t really dive into it until about now. However, most of my impressions on Yii are based on its documentation and this article by Daniel.
Let’s see how they compare with each other.
Same notes as before: Grading scale: Limited < Fair < Good < Excellent. If a feature is not available in the distributed package, but is available via 3rd party libraries, I will state that in the comparison. If a feature is available both in the distributed package and via 3rd party libraries, only the official one will get assessed.
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February 26th, 2009
jQuery.slideDown() issues in IE: quick fixes
Posted by Fred Wu
A simple Google search suggests that people are having problems with jQuery.slideDown() on Internet Explorer.
I’ve come across two issues on Internet Explorer 7 while developing a website containing some slideDown() effects, and found some quick fixes for them. :)
