Twitter Bootstrap Modals with Remote Content
Twitter’s Bootstrap is an impressive visual framework. It ties together functionality, usability, and sleek design. One of the many components that Bootstrap offers is a javascript modal window that is very clean and fast, however loading dynamic content from a remote source via ajax is not an out-of-the-box feature. With jQuery, it is easy to [...]
Root Level Wildcard Subdomains for Dynamic Directories
Having a root level URL for testing web apps is a must have in these days without having to deal with a complicated htaccess scheme for changing the rewrite base. In this article, I’ll explain how to use vhost_alias apache mod with the VirtualDocumentRoot directive to point a wildcard subdomain to a corresponding directory. First, [...]
Add Google Visualizations to Your CakePHP Project
Often it is imperative to visualize data in applications. In my previous post, I showed how visualizing data can shape the outcome of a conversation (in this case a tech visit). Many of my web applications as of late have been written using CakePHP, and as such I needed a decent go-to graphing tool that [...]
Time Warner Defeated By Munin
Being a customer of Time Warner (Road Runner) for nearly three years now, I have had my share of technical issues that required a technician to come out and rummage around in the magic cable box outside my house. Some of the worst issues to correct are intermittent. I share the pain of the Time [...]
Scrolltab: Dynamic Page Navigation Tool
I first stumbled upon a unique visual navigation scheme while browsing MSNBC.com. The concept is to have static navigation for different sections of a page that references the position of that content relative to the scrollbar. It does this by dynamically adding “pins” to the right side of the screen, seemingly attached to the scrollbar. [...]
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