I am a web designer & developer based in Galway, Ireland. Information on my work is available from my company site: Ambient Age Web Design.
I am also completing a PhD in Information Systems. My research is on the Adoption of IT Standards for technologies to support Ambient Intelligence.
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I spent a while on Friday searching for a way to replace the Euro symbol (€) in content pulled from a text area, using Javascript (jQuery). As it took me some time to track down an answer, here it is:
var theContent = $(‘#theTextArea’).val().replace(/\u20ac/g, ‘Euro’);
This replaces using a global search [...]
I spent a few hours yesterday trying to solve a jQuery problem that I was having…until I came across the excellent Live Query Plugin by Brandon Aaron which had already solved it for me. First, the blurb is:
Live Query utilizes the power of jQuery selectors by binding events or firing callbacks for matched elements auto-magically, [...]
In the first part of this tutorial I took a look at some of the background to Gears; the code example showed how to initialise Gears, and create a database (with a table definition). Apologies for the delay in getting the second part out of the drafts section of the blog.
In this section, I’ll show [...]
Growing numbers of web applications have been dipping their toes into providing offline access using Gears. Recent examples include Google Reader (Google originally developed Gears before releasing it as an open source project), Remember the Milk, Wordpress (in Version 2.6), with planned integrations from MySpace and Gmail.
Offline access provides a way for a user to [...]
More on the ongoing struggle with the Zend Framework’s documentation….
After much trawling of the Zend Framework Manual, ZF on Nabble, and Google, I finally tracked down how to include & manipulate radio buttons using Zend_Form (ZF 1.5).
The HTML code I was trying to output was something along the lines of:
<input type=”radio” value=”1″ name=”staff” /> <label>Jim</label> [...]
Just came across the Bird’s Eye View in Microsoft’s Live Maps. They’ve got a very high resolution – I could pick my car out parked outside my house. The image below is of the Cathedral in Galway at 25 yards (I had to scale it down to include it in the post).
The images you get [...]
The Irish Small & Medium Enterprise Association released findings of a survey this week on SME’s attitudes to Web Design and Development services in Ireland – further details are available on the Ambient Age site at SMEs Unhappy With Web Design Services?
PicLens is a web application that allows you to view photographs & images as a 3D “immersive” slideshow. It’s one of the most impressive web applications I’ve seen, and is well worth checking out.
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