Monthly Archives: August 2013

Internet Explorer text-shadow with jQuery

Internet Explorer text-shadow with jQuery. Hi everyone. Today I will present you a solution to a common web development headache. We will learn how to generate text shadows with jquery and get rid of all the ugly Internet Explorer related css declarations for the same purpose. The old Internet Explorer problem. As we all know,

Using the local DNS Server

Web hosting servers

Using the local DNS Server I’m not sure if you know, but your ISP DNS servers usually take around 24-72 hours to clear their DNS cache, in which time, if you made changes to your domain name, you will have to wait for your ISP to clear their cache before you can see the changes

The ternary conditional operator

The ternary conditional operator In computer programming, ?: is a ternary operator that is part of the syntax for a basic conditional expression in several programming languages. It is commonly referred to as the conditional operator, inline if (iif), or ternary if. Important because… Every good developer knows that less code that do something is better than more code that do the

Name-based Virtual Host configuration on apache

Apache web server

Virtual host configuration on apache I’ve been seeing a lot of clients that are having some issues creating a virtual host configuration on apache or nginx or any other web server (usually apache). In this article I’m going to show you a quick and easy way how to create a virtual host configuration (vhost for

Html5 autocomplete

Datalist html5 autocomplete tag Last days we talked about the _renderItem method of the jQuery autocomplete, which was an advanced solution for creating complex autocomplete with images, lists and other things in it. The feedback that I received from the reading users was good, but something was missing still. People who wanted a basic autocomplete

Load javascript files asynchronously

Cloudflare CDN

As I have already gotten you used to, today I came back with a new tip to speed up your website when using a lot of inline or external JavaScript files on your website. As you know the browser will try to download each resources in the exact same order they were written, but what

Position relative on td table element ?

Position relative on td table element ? Back in the past when tables were fashionable when building websites, I had some problems with the following thing. I wanted to place a span in absolute position within a “<td>” that had position:relative. Everything was clear in my mind back then, you know…I give relative position to the

Incapsula CDN network

Incapsula Service

Incapsula CDN network As you probably have noticed, I’m doing some bit of articles on website optimization and tips for speeding your website. All these are really based on my tests using this website. I wrote before an article on which is the best cdn network available at this time, well there is one more

jQuery autocomplete _rendeItem method

jquery ajax call

The problem I remember that back in the past I had problems with a persons autocomplete that I built with jQuery for a client. The request was simple at first, but then he wanted to add pictures in the left of the generated names list. When the user wrote a letter in the input, from

Clear DNS cache

Web hosting servers

Why clear the local dns cache ? If you just registered a domain or changed a record on your domain name, you need to either wait for the dns cache to clear itself or clear your local cache to get a new name resolution. To clear your DNS cache in Microsoft Windows (Win XP, Win

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