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Archive for February, 2009

Creating a Submenu in WordPress

February 26th, 2009

For a project I’m currently working on I wanted to create a submenu that included the parent page as well as the supbages. I just wanted to display the submenu only if the parent page had subpages. Searching the WordPress Codex and googling for a solution I couldn’t quite find an example that took all [...]

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The rise of Zooming User Interfaces

February 19th, 2009

The first time I ever read anything about Zooming User Interfaces was when I was reading The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin, where he introduced the concept of Zoom World, a whole OS based on a Zooming User Interface (ZUI). Of course this wasn’t my first encounter with this type of user interface since I’ve, [...]

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Global variables in Javascript

February 12th, 2009

Global variables are evil. Although possibly nifty for very small programs it quickly clutters the global namespace and increase the risk for name collisions as are program grows larger. The risk for collisions are even greater when using different libraries and widgets.

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Twitter is exploding

February 9th, 2009

Is it just me or is Twitter exploding right now? Apart from noticing that I got more followers the last days, I’ve also noticed that several Twitter services such as Tweetburner and Mr. Tweet has been down for maintenance. That might be a sign of overload! At a seminar I attended last week on Social [...]

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Working with Info Windows in Google Maps

February 5th, 2009

Having Info Windows in a Google Maps is a powerful way of displaying information about a specific point or object. Did you know that there are several kinds of them? In this article I will show you how to add different kinds of Info Windows that appear when you click on a marker.

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