The Urbano A. Company’s Blog
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The Urbano A. Company’s Blog
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about 4 months ago - No comments
I was building a site for a relative new company a couple weeks ago, and they wanted “A professional looking, brilliant display” for their products, I know Flash, and can do decent stuff with it, but seriously, how long does it take to do something really cool?
So I headed to the only place where I More >
about 4 months ago - No comments
Tabs are nice. They create a very elegant interface, and jQuery UI does this marvelously, here we have a little preview of this:
How to do that?
Include the files
With jQuery and jQuery UI it is dead simple. First, load the JS libraries, I recommend using the hosted files at Google for jQuery:
<script src="http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery-1.3.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="path/to/jquery UI" More >
about 5 months ago - 2 comments
There is a new BOT out there, and one of the bad ones. I have started receiving traffic from it in my servers over the past week, and after some investigation it turns out it is quite a powerful bot, and so simple to use even a kid with a computer could use it.
The bot More >
about 6 months ago - No comments
If you ever wanted to calculate someone’s age in PHP from a birth timestamp, you must take into account that the age is more than the number of years, since days and months are also important, so I wrote a simple function that will return the exact age for a given timestamp:
function getAge($birth){
$t = time();
$age More >
about 7 months ago - No comments
Hello people,
I want to share with all of you a file upload class I have developed, that makes it stupid simple to upload files haha
The PHP class:
First of all, here is the PHP class you will need:
< ?php
//Uploader class, by Alex
// This class is meant to handle all kinds of file uploads for DJs Music
// More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
A very cool way to display stuff on a website, is using a Matrix style. It is also quite common amongst hackers, and most of the people who have hacked a site for the sole purpose of proving they can like to display their hacker name in the index file, sometimes using JavaScript matrix style.
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about 1 year ago - 3 comments
I normally write to those web developers/programmers who are already good, experienced, and thus the articles are somewhat advanced.
But today I got up feeling nostalgic I guess, or I just felt like remembering back on my www birth, on my first impression of the Internet, my first site online, my first steps in w3c standards, More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
This article is not on how to create tabbed menus, is just about how to style them!
I completely forgot who was the source, so if you happen to be the author comment your URL and I’ll put up a link
Anyway, I found that this is by far the easiest and probably most beautiful More >
about 1 year ago - 8 comments
UPDATE: The sIFR WordPress plugin is now available!
This is probably one of the most amazing scripts I’ve seen nowadays. It was developed by Mike Davidson and Mark Wubben, and what it does is it allows you to change the fonts used in your website to custom fonts without having to worry about them changing in More >
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
I’m sure you’ve heard of the Nifty Corners js script to create very cool rounded corners, and some of you might even have used it, well there is a new version:
Nifty Corners Cube
It improves most flaws of the first version, plus it adds new features and functionalities. This is the new stuff:
The numbers of parameters More >
I am Alex, a software and communications engeneering student. I currently live in the north of Spain.
For the past years I have been working on software and application development, as well as sharing tips and tricks I find useful.
Go to my homepage for more information ;)
