One of my morning “rituals” includes jumping around the house, having some fruits, and then checking email/news, as well as spending a few peaceful moments enjoying some images, usually professional pictures of fruits/vegetables/remote places. No need to get into detail more than that, but I am sure you’ll agree with me that a site for those who have similar habits would be nice, as long as you have enough images that you can freely use and the right script to [...]

If I think how many programmers are working on various projects these days, it’s always great to find a standalone program or a Web-based tool claiming to be the first one doing… something, it doesn’t really matter what. After all, most people I know only think there’s room for improvement, and not for completely new things, but the team behind IxEdit comes to claim that the truth is completely different…

… and they simply do that by saying that their product [...]

Some people I know simply love Web-based editors, but I must say I’m not exactly crazy about them. No matter if we’re talking about code or some article, I’m always more comfortable using Notepad++ or some other similar tool that I have installed in my computer already, and I don’t have to get into detail with this – after all, it doesn’t really matter what you like to use, as long as you get the job done, right?

Today, I have [...]

What is a secure password? Sure, “John” is completely trivial, especially if your account name is John Doe, but is “12John93″ much better? How long would it take for someone to hack your email account and get access to the confidential data that could make you lose your job?

When it comes to secure passwords, there are a lot of questions to be asked, and while the answers are very straightforward, some people simply won’t understand. Yesterday, for example, I helped [...]

Some time ago, creating menus for a site was nothing less but art. I only said “menus,” yes? Good, because when talking about animated menus, we were already stepping into “Voodoo land” already, at least for most people using the Internet back then! Now, creating animated/dynamic menus has become a trivial task, and Kwicks is here to prove that.

Since this time there’s no big story to tell, let me tell you only this: Kwicks is a jQuery plugin that allows [...]

To be honest, I love image gallery scripts, but when I want to watch various images on the Web, I like keeping things as simple as possible. When I say “as simple as possible,” that means image transitions and Flash- or Java-based image galleries are a no-go, but…

… it all becomes pretty interesting when we look at AnythingSlider, a jQuery plugin created to display not only images, but any kind of HTML content. Before I tell you a few words [...]

For some, Twitter is like Eden, while others consider it a plague. To be honest, I think that the Twitter plague is closer to the truth than the other version, but since everyone seems to be so crazy about it, a little jQuery Twitter plugin won’t hurt at all, I am sure of that.

While there’s also a WordPress plugin with the same name (take a look at it here), the Tweetable piece of code I have here today is only [...]

In my early freelancing days, I had to perform (a lot of!!) basic data entry tasks on some osCommerce-based site. After cursing the hell out of that platform, I got out of that job with my reputation clean, but decided to think more than just once or twice before playing with any kind of shopping cart piece of code.

Fortunately, the path I followed in the meantime helped me stay away from any kind of shopping cart (except those situations when [...]

As I confessed some time ago, I am a lazy person, although sometimes I even surprise myself by being completely the opposite. Anyway, if I would be actively involved into Web development, I am sure that finding the right plugins and frameworks to work with would be one of my top priorities. Sure, the reason is that having ready-to-roll pieces of code around would allow me to get the job done faster… and continue to enjoy my laziness, of course! [...]

For a pretty long time, I lived without a clock or a cell phone, that after having both of them. I can tell you that dropping those two devices that turn you into a slave is a real blessing, but – unfortunately – you can’t live like this forever… or maybe you can, but most of us can’t. Anyway, if you want to have some clocks ticking on your site, I got a little something for you right here, right [...]