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01
Jun

JW Player Captions

By alex|Javascript|2 Comments

Captions are a great way to offer multi-lingual media content on your site, but they don’t seem easy to add right? Well with the right tools and guidance, it will be very easy: Setting everything up: In order for captions to work flawlessly on every major browser, we will be using JW Player version 4.5 [...]

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25
May

Extract HTML from XML in a jQuery AJAX request

By alex|AJAX, XML|2 Comments

This is a bit tricky when you are parsing XML with jQuery. As you will realize, all HTML passed is ignored, and only the text is displayed. I have seen many people do this, which unfortunately won’t work! $(xml).find(’element’).each(function(){ if($(this).text() < 0){ alert($(this).text()) } }); Now this will throw an error, you can’t take HTML [...]

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21
May

iPhone web development [Part 2]

By alex|CSS, iPhone, Javascript|Be the first to comment!

iPhone orientation change

In part one of my tutorial on iPhone web development, we talked about the basic stuff (Recognizing iPhones or iPods, setting up special HTML and CSS tags… ) we will now move on to the really clever bit: Orientation detection. For many sites, we may just have the same thing both on portrait and landscape. [...]

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05
May

iPhone web development [Part 1]

By alex|CSS, iPhone|Be the first to comment!

Even if websites look great when seen on iPhones, having an iPhone-specific website improves a lot your site’s usability, and in spite of what you may think, it doesn’t take that long to develop it, here I will show all the necessary steps to develop a great site for iPhones, and making it look as [...]

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04
May

PHP: Display all files/pictures in a folder

By alex|PHP, Programming|2 Comments

If we want to create a quick gallery of files/pictures, it is quite a pain to do so manually. And since this is some code I’m always reusing I thought I might share it here with everyone else: Let’s suppose we are in the base directory (www.mysite.com/gallery.php) and the pictures are in a folder named [...]

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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.

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