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It seemed that jquery was the obvious solution but the exact syntax eluded me until Hamish Dobson pointed me at this:
$('td.classname').filter(
function() {
return $("input", this).length == 0;
}
).addClass('myclass');
11 Dec 2009
There are so many useful plugins but not every page requires them all. Rather than slow down the site by loading all the script libraries every time it is possible to dynamically include those that are required for the current page.
For example, only include the lightbox plugin for pages where there are images that will make use of it.
Sounds simple right... well it should have been.
10 Nov 2009
I have worked with Google Maps on a number of challenging projects, each a little more complex than the previous. The most recent project needed to resize an open infoWindow (speech bubble) based on its content. Sounds easy enough right. Well, it turned out to be less straight forward than you might think.
24 Jun 2009
A brief report covering my recent evaluation of Vodafone 3G mobile broadband solution.
I am testing the service to see if it will provide adequate solution for my rural internet needs. It has already proven to be faster then my urban conventional wired broadband from Orcon.
17 Jun 2009
Introducing a clever way of optimizing a website for speed is to make use of the image 'sprite' technique.
This works by combining multiple images together to reduce the number of server requests and image size.
Learn more about how this technique works and the issues involved.
20 Apr 2009
As the internet has grown in complexity and become more competitive marketplace the opportunities for good and bad design have also increased.
This article is an overview of things to avoid and guidelines to follow for successful web design and development.
04 Jun 2008
I wrote this small template to remove (trim) leading and training space characters from strings using XSL. Pass in a string to trim as a parameter and get a result.
With all the data we have access to now it become harder and harder to hold a coherent image of our relationships to that data. Here is an interesting tool for visualizing some of the common networks out there.
http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrows...
Recently I have been involved in the production of ActionThis, a web based project management application. The system offers a suite of tools designed to improve productivity and performance while making use of the latest in web technology and design.
http://www.actionthis.com