Resize images on the fly with CakePHP
photo credit: Cj Roberts We’ve all been there: You have a website design. There are placeholders for galleries or thumbnails or what-have-you. Sweet as. You code, fire up the browser and - the images...
View ArticleChanging text color dynamically on web pages
photo credit: robokow This post is part of a “Be nice to your users” web UI design series I plan to write. With the whole Web2.0 fluid/milky design that many sites are using now, it became very popular...
View ArticleTypography – more important than you may think
photo credit: law_keven This post is part of the “Be nice to your users” web UI design series. There are many things that contribute to the rise or fall of your website. Anyone, and Google especially,...
View ArticleDisplay a generated PDF from within Spring webflow
photo credit: law_keven In a recent Spring webflow project, I had a requirement to generate a PDF on the fly and display it as part of a web page. The containing web page is part of a Spring webflow,...
View ArticleDouble Submit Prevention, Disabled buttons, Firefox and the Back Button
photo credit: Mr. Theklan Double submit is when a user submits a form on your web page twice (well, technically they can do it more than twice, but you can’t call it a double submit…) It usually...
View ArticleCustomize form:errors output on Spring-MVC
photo credit: Illusive Photography Baa.. took a lot of searching in code, and I don’t particularly like the result – but it is what it is. The main issue is that my designer wanted us to get clever...
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