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Joomla 1.5 – HTML5 Template Starting Point
Posted on 28. Aug, 2010 by Rick.
After staring in awe at Paul Irish’s HTML5 boilerplate, I quickly decided it was genius and wanted to get a starting point for any future Joomla projects where we at XID deem html5 ok to use (which from this point on should be most). I took a few minutes and redid / added some Joomla-esque [...]
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Tutorial Video: Converting a Joomla 1.5 Template to 1.6
Posted on 06. Jul, 2010 by Rick.
I made a casual video this evening on converting a J! 1.5 template to J! 1.6. I hadn’t practiced or rehearsed this video at all before the recording because I wanted to see just how easy it would be and how much time it would take to get it done. Surprisingly, it took just a [...]
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CMS Expo 2010 Highlights
Posted on 07. May, 2010 by Rick.
The Expo was the best technical conference I have attended to date. I have been to a few smaller, meet-up type conferences, FOWA (Future of Web Apps) Miami, and the CMS Expo ’09. Apart from last year’s CMS Expo (CMSX), the others I did not enjoy. You might think I am bias but I feel, [...]
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ECWID Shopping Cart Joomla Extensions
Posted on 22. Feb, 2010 by Rick.
Recently I was introduced to a new hosted shopping cart solution called ECWID. I played with it for about 10 minutes and really liked the idea behind it. I was also surprised how fast it loaded the hosted cart. I was able to whip out several extensions for Joomla that help integrate the cart…
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Override Core jQuery Methods
Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by Rick.
A recent conversation with some developers brought up a question I’d never contemplated before: Can jQuery core methods be overridden? Well, in short: Easily, yes! From perusing the web, it looks like there are several approaches to doing this. Below is an example I wrote up quickly, to test out the concept.
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