2 clicks for more privacy

Everyone knows like buttons. They are in fact becoming a must-have in every kind of website. But with it a couple of issues arise, for example loading time issues and mainly privacy issues. Without approval of the user data is sent to the social networks the like button is assosiated with. A chance for social networks to create surf profiles of their users.

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Jquery.tmpl(): item value in function

Jquery.tmpl() code

If you use JQuery you have probably stumbled upon JQuery.tmpl(). This is a very nice JQuery plugin with whom one can easily turn json data into a html representation. As the name implies it uses templates to accomplish that, which give the plugin a high flexibility. I personally use it quite a lot lately.

That’s how i came across a, so far, special case. Normally for me it would be enough to simply load the json data from the server and let .tmpl() to the rest for me. $('#id-of-template').tmpl(response.data).appendTo('#where-you-need-it'); In this case i had a collection of entities as json data and i wanted to alter a value of each entity before displaying it. 

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Facebook User Decrease

Is this the start of a global trend or just a temorary phenomenon? Inside Facebook Gold reports a drop of facebook users in some of their most established markets such as US, Canada and UK. Allthough overall growth is still at 11.8 million people for may, it is the second consecutive month with less new members than usual (~20 million for the past 12).

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A multipage form for ZF

When i started using the ZF i was a fan right away – in particular i loved Zend_Form. But one thing i missed pretty much was an easy to use multipage form. Allthough the manual provides a solution i never considered to use it because it seems to complex to me. So i decided to develop my own component.
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Admin Bars

I recently installed the new version of wordpress, 3.1. And i was positively surprised when i first saw the guys there have added an admin toolbar for the frontend to the core. Such toolbars (also known from applications like Drupal) provide a quick interface to access the most important (pretty much daily used) admin functions. In my point of view you should consider enhancing the frontend with an admin toolbar for every application.

The wordpress toolbar

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ModX

When creating a new website for a client it is often convenient to use an existing CMS. Some companies maintain their own CMS, but others don’t. In my opinion this is not a must-have because there are many good CMS around the web – both paid and free. It normally saves a lot of time and work if you can build upon an existing structure. So during the last few years i have done projects with various CMS. However for our most recent project at work we chose to use a CMS i had never used before – ModX.

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Hello World

… or why i blog ;-)

Yes it’s true, there’s now officially one additional blogger on the internet. I decided to fallow millions of others and do the same they do – sharing (more or less) usefull information with others. The so called blogging. Some of you may ask: why? Well…

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