I have released JavaScript library to create an effect of burning text. There are number of options that you can customize – colors, font and burning speed. You can see the demo and play with all the options at ponticstar.com/projects/burning-words. The script uses canvas element that is a part of HTML5 specification. The element is [...]
On Valentine’s day David Orr launched the Dev Center that offers free audio samples for developers on a tight budget. Any project will qualify (even commercial ones!) You can use any of the music available in the Dev Center. There is no limit to how many pieces you want to use! No subscription fee is [...]
Sometimes you need to force your visitors to use secure connection if they forgot to type https:// in the browser. It can be accomplished by adding the following lines to .htaccess file located in the root folder of your web site. It will force secure connection for all pages on your web site.
Few days ago I needed to develop contact form handler for the website hosted on Windows platform. JavaScript and AJAX were used on the client side to send request to the server. After some reading about ASP.NET framework it become clear that I need to write custom handler (.ashx) to process this request.
Before going live with WordPress I have decided to try it out on my laptop. It was a time to upgrade my PHP installation as well. I downloaded and installed the most recent version of PHP5 in a zip package and configured Apache to use it. However the following message appeared when I tried to [...]
