If you’re a jQuery lover like we are, check out vTip at Vertigo Project. vTip is designed to quickly provide very lightweight (1.11KB js, 272b CSS) tooltips to users of jQuery. The zip includes everything you need (including an example page), as well as jQuery for the examples to work. They look great and are extremely [...]

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Feedback is an important step in project development, it allows you to go back and make improvements to a product based on what the users have to say. This undoubtedly creates a greater product and improves user satisfaction when using it. This seems to be a key ingredient to Afrigator’s success. Named “Afrigreater”, they use [...]

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As you may know this blog is run by Vertigo Project which is a South African development group, who are also involved in niche job boards for South Africans. Today, two new ones have been launched: The first is an accounting and related jobs and job board designed to help firms and individuals find positions [...]

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Image via CrunchBase A lot is being said about IE8 and how it will change the history of IE and how it is seen in the eyes of developers. Anyone who has ever tried to design a website using standards defined by W3C is sure to have found that while the site looks great in [...]

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For anyone who doesn’t know, Gravatar is the global avatar system used by a lot of bloggers, specifically supported by the latest WordPress. Essentially, it associates an avatar with an email address you use to comment, so you can have your avatar show when you comment on blogs! Now, naturally its important to have an [...]

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So we were digging through older stuff and stumbled upon something we used to do with the guys from Vault9, MadAvatar. It was never properly launched and died an early death, but we’ve revived it and put it up again! Essentially, it allows you to customize an avatar for use on a forum or as [...]

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We’re proud to announce our third WordPress theme, Entropy! Its free to download and modify but please do leave us a comment and a back link in the theme if you do. Let us know if you like it, and enjoy! Features Different front page from posts, unique look and feel. Grunge based red and [...]

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Browser detection shouldn’t be neccesary for one simple reason: they should all follow the standards! However, this is not the case so here is the ultimate way to test for a browser: B=(function x(){})[-5]==’x'?’FF3′:(function x(){})[-6]==’x'?’FF2′:IE=’\v’==’v'?’IE’:Saf=/a/.__proto__==’//’?'Saf’:/source/.test((/a/.toString+”))?’Chr’:'Op’ The above will give you a variable “B” with a string in it. FF3 for firefox 3, FF2 for firefox [...]

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An article on reddit brought on the inspiration for this, an actual answer to how long an email input field should be. Many developers say or use 255 characters; for example; <input type=”text” name=”email” maxlength=”255″ /> – this is incorrect! The maximum length of an email address is made up of three parts, firstly the [...]

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iConvert is a web service which lets you convert icons from one format to another, essentially allowing you to ‘cross-platform’ icons! Its easy to use and supports a bunch of formats. They support the following formats according to the front page: .icns .ico .png .svg .tif .jpg .bmp .tga .cur The interesting part about the [...]

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