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Week round-up and Friday video: Envato CEO interview

Cedric Dugas — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:20:29 +0000

Let’s begin with the Friday video, we got the Envato CEO on how Envato started.

There was also some cool news this week:

First the Firefox 3.6 beta is ready to be picked up. As usual the FF next version contains some…

Tip #4: Do not use input name submit using jQuery trigger(’submit’)

Cedric Dugas — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:47:48 +0000

That’s right, this is something I just crossed in one of my project, a form would not submit when requested with $(”form”).trigger(’submit’). This is because my submit input button was using the name.. submit, like in :

<input type="submit" name="submit">

Be careful!

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Google history in video

Cedric Dugas — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:01:50 +0000

Want to know how this small company has become one of the most influential company of our time?

Have a nice week everyone!

Form Validation Engine 1.6 online

Cedric Dugas — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:43:01 +0000

This version correct a small bug were when the success function was used, it would not unbind the validation and create a loop upon trying to re-submitting the form. It also add a way to request a true or false…

Friday video: Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years

Cedric Dugas — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:38:51 +0000

“Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time. Figuring out how to rank real-time social content is “the great challenge of…

Scripty2 to replace script.aculo.us

Cedric Dugas — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:25:30 +0000

For those of you guys that never did some prototype (the framework), script.aculo.us is the most used animation framework on top of it. And Scripty2 is coming along the way to give a bit of fresh air to this framework.

I…

Form Validation Engine 1.5 live

Cedric Dugas — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:16:35 +0000

I did not had a lot of time to work on my plugins lately, I am also trying to push forward position absolute platform, but I did find a bit of time to work on my validation engine. In this…

Unofficial jQuery 1.4 sneakpeak

Cedric Dugas — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:51:16 +0000

A nice little article recently appeared on jQuery 1.4. If you want to see what is coming next for your preferred framework, this is the place to go.

Personally, even if it already exists in plugins, I am happy to see lazy…

Geocities is down, forever.

Cedric Dugas — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:23:38 +0000

I couldn’t pass the opportunity to say how sad I am that Yahoo decided to close Geocities’ doors. If you were doing websites in high school, you were probably hosted on Geocities or Angelfire. It probably hosted most of the…

Position Absolute goes mobile, and a small introduction to jQtouch

Cedric Dugas — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:22:24 +0000

What a better way of testing the jQtouch beta that by creating a mobile version of Position Absolute. You can test it out with safari at this address, or just tap position-absolute.com in your iPhone.

What can I say, I am stunned…