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Building a very basic Google Wave extension

Alhough seems that all of us who have been invited recently to Google Wave have some limitations (can’t invite others, don’t have the “Extension Installer” wave…), we can still play a little with it and develop some wave extensions. I’ve based my article...
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Kartones.Net CS2007 Addon Pack 1.3.2: Lightweight + Visual Tags

In my last release of this Community Server 2007 pack I added a lightweight list of all posts, but it wasn’t the only optimization I had in mind to do small speed increases on blog page loads. Two new controls I’ve just finished are a readonly tag list...

Kartones.Net: Implemented a Server-side CAPTCHA for Community Server 2007

After getting tired of still getting spam (having Brendan Tompkins CAPTCHA installed), I decided to dig into the problem, and found the big FAIL: The captcha is client-side only, relying on a Javascript validation of a cookie for sending or not the comments...

Zero-cost PHP debugging and testing environment

One of the nice things of developing in Linux-oriented scenarios (although I use Windows }:) is having free tools that sometimes shine for their quality. Leaving apart the decision of the PHP IDE (there are a great range of both free and commercial ones...
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Kartones.Net: Speed improvements on the site

I’ve been lately working hard on my spare time to make some speed improvements to the site. Although we’re running a slightly modified version of CS (with some internal tweakings and unused modules disabled), one of the things I love is trying to optimize...

Accessing CSS elements via JS quick how-to

This is a small quick reminder of how to access CSS style properties (and, as a bonus, how to detect Internet Explorer version from javascript and switch from PNG to GIFs to avoid not having transparency in IE versions less than 7). Having this image...

Messenger Presence API Exposed }:)

Today has been a great day, Messenger control for web plus presence API . The second one was a simple URL to query messenger.services.live.com and get a user's online status image. Not bad... but could be better! Playing a bit, I found that you can...

Cloning the Twitter badge with Javascript & new subdomain

The night from thursday to friday I slept few hours, but it was not because of going out. Pedro and I started to play with the Twitter API and a visual clone (using only javascript and HTML) I had already don of it's badge (which is a flash object...

Small Blogger hack: Custom search

If you've got a blog in Blogger and your friends are so clumsy they don't know how to use Blogger's upper bar (not kidding), you can try this... · Create a small javascript function that fills and calls the submit of Blogger's bar: · Create...
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Online Reference sheets for HTML, JS and more

Some useful online links to sheets, reference lists and color palettes for web developers: HTML Tags : Huge list of all HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1 tags. Javascript Reference : Handy language reference cards. Regular Expressions : Reg. exp. for Javascript...
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