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Chromecast Style Windows 7 Sidebar Gadgets

February 14, 2014 Tagged in:

I’ve had a Google Chromecast for a couple of months, one of the things that I really like about it is how the time was displayed in the bottom left corner. So I decided to create a set of windows sidebar gadgets that look like they would fit on the... Read more

Useful Plugins for Aptana Studio 3, Part Deux

January 17, 2014 Tagged in:

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This is a follow up post to useful plugins for Aptana Studio. Since writing that post I have stumbled on a couple other useful plugins / tools I would like to share. Fullscreen I looked for a fullscreen plugin after being enamored with LightTable’s fullscreen feature. This plugin hasn’t been... Read more

Code style guides, personal preference or a set of best practices

January 04, 2014 Tagged in:

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Early in 2013 Ontraport engineering team decided on a code style guide. After years of everyone coding to their own standard we now have a unified style across all languages. Everyone on the team voted so it was about as fair as it could be. Most of my style preferences... Read more

Web Components - IowaJS, Oct 2013

October 31, 2013 Tagged in:

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Looking back, jQuery UI was my first experience with “web components”. When I first discovered them I as amazed as to how easy it was to setup any widget. Just include jQuery and jQuery UI and just call the widget code. In the exsmaple below, .button() Setting up of an... Read more

jQuery cloneVal, automatically copy :input values

October 12, 2013 Tagged in:

It’s been awhile since I released a good old fashion jQuery plugin. cloneVal targets :inputs on a form and lets you copy/clone the value to one or a set of target :inputs. view the code in action GitHub A practical use case for this plugin would be an e-commerce form... Read more

Fun with HTML5 templates and shadowDom API

October 12, 2013 Tagged in:

html5

I recently started playing around with the new <template></template> tag introduced in html5. On the surface it looks pretty plain, it appears to another template engine. But when combined with the shadowDom API it can be pretty powerful. Take this code example. <div id="target"> <span class="label">Enter your name</span> <span class="name">name</span>... Read more

Creating Themes for Ontraport/OfficeAutoPilot Forms

July 25, 2013 Tagged in:

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Ontraport / OfficeAutoPilot’s formeditor is pretty powerful, it’s great for creating one off designs. But did you know that you can use it to create themes that you can apply to other formeditor created forms? This setup will work on Wordpress, Landing Pages and plain old html pages. Quick Demo... Read more

Jesse Baird