November 22, 2007
Yesterday I decided to help a friend setup a secure wireless connection on her newish Compaq Presario F500 notebook. She only has it a few months, and it came with Windows Vista. I’m still running Windows XP myself (although the Mac conversion is looming, trust me), and I haven’t had much dealings with Vista. From what I had seen and heard of Microsoft’s latest OS, I wasn’t overly impressed.
Anyway, I setup the wireless connection using the WEP key I’d gotten from my friend’s Netgear router, going about it the same way I would on Windows XP. The process is almost automatic for me since I’d talked people through it literally hundreds of times as an AOL technical support agent a couple of years ago. Everything seemed to be in the same place and I did what I usually do, but the wireless just wouldn’t hook up. It was about then that my friend noted that the machine had been running a bit slower than usual lately. Fine, I’d just untick a few things that looked unnecessary in msconfig (start > run > msconfig > startup tab) and reboot. Maybe that would get the wireless working, too.
Big mistake.
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October 29, 2007
UPDATE: (Oct. 26th, 2009): I’ve just released a new version of Coda-Slider. Check out the details here. The original version referred to in this post remains available for download.
It’s been about six weeks since I introduced a neat little jQuery plugin called Coda-Slider. It was well received, and I was delighted to see people incorporating it into their own projects in creative ways.
However, the original Coda-Slider had some bugs and lacked some features. After numerous requests, I’ve finally found time to make some improvements, and today I’m releasing Coda-Slider 1.1. Please check out the demo, and be sure to read the rest of this post for more info and details on customization.
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October 25, 2007
This is a guest post from Don Albrecht of AjaxBestiary.com. Be sure to visit his sites and check out his other works.
While most of the new features in the jQuery UI package are common across most AJAX frameworks and toolkits, the new Selectables stands out as a unique and potentially quite useful interface element.
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September 25, 2007
Just noticed something quirky today regarding jQuery’s slideToggle effect in Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7. (I’m guessing the use of jQuery’s slideDown and slideUp will give you the same problem.) I’ve been creating some nice sliding div effects these past couple of weeks in work and wondering why the slide animation in IE6+ was so jagged and clunky, while Firefox and Safari rendered it perfectly. Through the process of elimination and some hair loss, I figured it out.
The fix
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September 24, 2007
Just added a couple of projects to my portfolio.
First is my most recent freelance project, which was a site for the Mercy primary schools in Waterford. Secondly, there’s the Flash animation I created while at TSSG back in March.