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10 Shapes to Extend HTML5 Canvas 14 Aug 2013 | 12:26 pm
Today I wanted to take a look at extending the HTML5 canvas object to add shapes to it. The canvas object comes with some basic functions allowing us to draw things like rectangles and lines but it do...
One Virtual Host to Rule Them All 13 Aug 2013 | 11:02 am
Had a bit of head scratching on this one this morning so thought I would share. We have quite a few plugins on Websanova now and it was becoming cumbersome to constantly add new VirtualHost directives...
MySQL Full-Text Search 25 Jul 2013 | 05:27 pm
I was helping out a friend earlier today to setup a little search function on his website. He was using a LIKE query with wild cards % to build his search. But this is actually not a good way to do se...
A More Powerful Trim() 17 Jul 2013 | 09:05 am
I came across the situation the other day where I needed to trim a string. However I didn’t need to trim white space characters, I needed to trim some dollar ($) sign characters. So I looked up the $....
Websanova JavaScript Extensions Project 16 Jul 2013 | 03:03 pm
After finally catching up with a bunch of things on the blog we finally had a chance to work on the extensions page and got it up and running. There aren’t too many extensions there yet but we will be...
Custom Events Using the jQuery Special Events API 15 Jul 2013 | 04:53 pm
It’s not often we need our own jQuery events, but when we do it’s nice to know we can create an elegant solution that behaves like any other event would. We want to be able to add an event right into ...
wForm :: Awesome jQuery Form Plugins 9 Jul 2013 | 04:08 pm
After introducing our wChar, wCheck, wInput and wSelect jQuery form plugin separately over the past couple weeks we have decided it’s only fit to show all the plugins working in harmony together. Our ...
wInput :: A jQuery Input Text and Textarea Plugin 6 Jul 2013 | 02:50 pm
This is a simple plugin for text boxes and textarea inputs that gives us clean looking text boxes and takes care of backwards compatibility for placeholder attributes. Perhaps the main reason to use i...
wSelect :: A jQuery Select Box Plugin 3 Jul 2013 | 04:44 pm
The current state of select boxes on the web are just plain ugly and limited in functionality. We wanted to create a select box plugin that could be fully customizable in appearance for one. And secon...
jQuery .mousestop() Event Plugin 3 Jul 2013 | 02:05 pm
It’s not very often we think about triggering a stop event over an element. But perhaps that is because the event has never existed in JavaScript. Actually the first time I came across ever needing a ...
