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Only one day left to enter the poor man’s $40 Web developer giveaway
Today is the last day to submit your entry for the poor man’s $40 Web developer giveaway. Tomorrow I will be announcing the winner! Click here to read more about the contest.
The poor man’s $40 Web developer giveaway
What better way for us to celebrate our first $100 Google Adsense payment then to give some of it away. Over the last three months we have started posting regularly, we have redesigned, our traffic has grown 120%, and we have been privileged to receive feedback from some very experienced Web professionals. In celebration, we offer to you the poor man’s $40 Web developer giveaway.
Entering the contest is easy, and any Web professional around the world can win. In the comments, enter one interesting Web development topic or tutorial that you would like to see posted on our blog, your first name, and an email address (not published). One or two sentences will do just fine. If we choose your topic, then we will do the research, write the post, and everyone will be all the wiser.
Should you win, you will receive any design or development related software download of your choice, priced at $40 USD or less, and licensed to you! The contest will run until 10/11/07 (one week), or will run until we have at least twenty-five entries.
Syntax Highlighter, jQuery plugins, future posts, and goodie giveaways
This is just a quick note to let you know I have “officially” chosen Syntax Highlighter by Alex Gorbatchev as the code highlighter for d’bug. Over the next month I will be making tweaks, and experimenting with it, so there is always the potential for a mishap.
Several of you have emailed me about a bug in the Truncate plugin for jQuery. Thank you for taking the time to send a fix along. I am not ignoring your emails, and I will try to wrap that change up into a release very shortly. I plan to do another jQuery tutorial in the future, but I am skeptical about building another plugin. I want to be able to provide support, and if I feel I will be unable to do this, then I do not want to short-change developers.
I have numerous ideas for posts (too many to count), and I hope to continue forward with useful tutorials as well as my occasionally ridiculous rantings. In the next month or so I will run our first giveaway — nowhere near the scale of some others, but a thanks to the design and development community nonetheless.
Stick around!
Brian Reindel
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Accessible News Slider plugin for jQuery — the final release
I have made a final adjustment to the Accessible News Slider plugin for jQuery, and I will no longer be supporting new releases or feature requests. The primary purpose behind building this plugin was to demonstrate that dynamic components can be accessible if appropriate steps are taken. This has been a successful experiment, and I still get quite a bit of traffic for the plugin.
Unfortunately, most of the feature requests that I receive do not take accessibility into account. Many of them are both interesting and usable, but not necessarily accessible. For this reason I am releasing the final version completely into the public domain. The plugin has always been available under the GNU GPL, but you may now use it to suit any of your project needs.
You will always find the support page at http://www.reindel.com/accessible_news_slider.
Enjoy!
Truncate v.2.2 plugin for jQuery released
I am happy to announce that I have updated this jQuery plugin after I received quite a few requests for a very useful feature. The plugin now supports the ability to reveal the text that has been truncated, as well as the ability to click and re-truncate. The JavaScript is still 1KB, which really speaks to jQuery’s motto, which is “write less. do more.” I could not agree more.
All Things Bloggable relaunches with a new name, a new design, a new host, and a new focus
You may have noticed some changes around here rather recently. The most significant is that All Things Bloggable no longer exists — at least not under the guise of that name. Stephanie and I have relaunched as d’bug, and our focus will be centered completely around Web development and Web technologies. Any previous post that did not fit within our current list of categories still exists, so there is no need to update your bookmarks. However, the post will not appear in the results of a search or the archives. I also spent some time updating URLs in several existing posts, but if you still find broken links, please let me know.
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