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[SOLVED] Uploadify and session problems

Uploadify is a wonderful plugin for jQuery that allows you to upload several files at once,  it does the uploads transparently  using flash (take a look at the demo on this link).
In fact, the great advantage I see is not to be able to upload several files at once, this can be done by javascript [...]

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New web for playing Flash games

I’ve been thinking of making a games website for a while. I’ve finally decided to go ahead and do a website with Flash games.
The truth is, that lately I’ve been really busy with lots of things that have nothing to do with games, but this Saturday I needed to disconnect and  work on something totally [...]

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MansoGrover: difference between FIXME and TODO

Hello there, this is your old pal Grover, and today I’m going to talk to you about the difference between a FIXME and a TODO in a comment.

FIXME: should be used when is a hack, a hardcoded constant, variable, function or something critical, and something that should be removed before the next release. Usually [...]

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Click effect for jQuery

Today I’ve been playing for a while with javascript. The truth is that I haven’t found what I was looking for, but let’s assume that this is because I’m a programmer and not a designer.
Anyway, what I was trying to do is to create some kind of click effect. Ok, let me try again. What [...]

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jQuery 1.4.1 is out

Some weeks after the release of jQuery 1.4, now the first bug fix release for this fantastic javascript framework is out.
The new version fixes several bugs, and includes some improvements.
Download jQuery 1.4.1 and have a look at the release notes.

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jcontroller: A small and simple controller for javascript

It’s been a long time since the last post, so I’ve though Hey! I’m loosing users, I cannot let that happen, let’s get something from any project I’ve done recently, so I can do a post :p
The thing is that I recently noticed that the javascript I’ve been writing lately becomes messy after some time, [...]

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Firebug 1.5 crashes on Ubuntu 64-bit

This morning I got an update message from Firefox for updating firebug to the latest 1.5 version. I’ve installed it, but when I tried to click on the icon…. booooom!! Firefox window has dissapeared.
According to this post in the Firebug blog, the crash will be solved on future versions of Firefox (3.5.8).
Just in case you [...]

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Google Chrome for Linux

Today I’ve received an e-mail from Google telling me that they launched the new beta for linux of their browser Google Chrome.  It’s been a while since they first launched a version for Windows.
As you might expect, I’ve downloaded and installed this brand new version of Chrome for Linux and I installed on my Ubuntu [...]

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TCPDF: excelent library for generating PDF in PHP

The other day I was looking how to create PDF files in PHP.
The first thing that came to my mind was the PDFlib extension included in PHP since version 4. The problem with this library is that  I thought it was kind of low-level, and I didn’t had any idea on where to start.
In fact, [...]

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Transfer a twitter application from one user to another

If you have a twitter account maybe you have played with twitter API, or even you have made a twitter application for integrating the “Sign in with Twitter”, or maybe you have created an application for something else.
Anyway, these days I’ve been working in integrating the Sign in with Twitter and Sign in with Facebook [...]

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