Jefim Borissov http://jefim.eu/blog The mighty web developer! Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:51:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en CodeIgniter – Cart crap with Cyrillic characters Ok, now this is so ridiculous that I have to blog about this even though I do not want to. CodeIgniter just blew my mind some time ago when I upgraded to 1.7.2 for the new Cart library. I realize, that it is a basic functionality, yet still... It does ... http://jefim.eu/blog/2009/12/codeigniter-cart-crap-with-cyrillic-characters/ Enough ClearType! Go GDI++! Did you ever want to replace the ugly ClearType with something better? I know I have. And my prayers have been answered - meet GDI++ - the solution to all your font problems. Enough words, see it in action (this is Verdana, btw): [caption id="attachment_274" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="ClearType vs. GDI++"][/caption] Well, I ... http://jefim.eu/blog/2009/11/enough-cleartype-go-gdi/ RoR: Session / login management This is basic yet not obvious in Ruby on Rails - I've been looking for info on this for a long time (a long time for this problem is anything more than 5 minutes). So, this is the way you make sessions/logins work in ruby: class SessionController < ApplicationController def login ... http://jefim.eu/blog/2009/11/ror-session-login-management/ Basic CSS layout The basic CSS layout I use in my work is plain simple - header, sontent, sidebar and footer. The HTML: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>My page</title> <base href="http://localhost/" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" /> </head> <body> <div id="wrap"> <div id="header"> ... http://jefim.eu/blog/2009/10/basic-css-layout/ Image / file upload with CodeIgniter Image upload can be a pain in the *ss. And even though CI has a lot to offer (in the means of documentation) it still lacks a direct copy-paste code on their website so that people can just put it into their controller and use away. Here we will have: Image upload ... http://jefim.eu/blog/2009/10/image-file-upload-with-codeigniter/ Komodo Edit tools – add style.css and reset.css Good morning, planet. Today I am going to share a very useful script I am using in Komodo Edit (it automates adding style.css). It is very (!) simple yet very effective for me and, probably for others who are doing a lot of HTML files and face a problem of ... http://jefim.eu/blog/2009/10/komodo-edit-tool-style/ How-To: Create a horizontal menu This is a tutorial on how to create a fully costomizable horizontal menu. Why another menu how-to? Well, mostly because there are situations when there are no suitable google results (based on my experience) and you have to come up with something yourself. These are the features we will try to ... http://jefim.eu/blog/2009/10/how-to-create-a-horizontal-menu/ The Web 2.0 craze The craze of Web 2.0 is consuming more and more developers and their customers. And, from my point of view, this is a good trend - websites are more clear, more usable and intercative - users are happy => site owners are happy => developers are happy. We are all ... http://jefim.eu/blog/2009/07/the-web-2-0-craze/ Web development future As you may already know I work as a web developer. This means I encounter a lot of (X)HTML, PHP and JavaScript. There is no doubt that those are the most widely used tools for small/medium websites as well as there is no doubt that with all the new trends, ... http://jefim.eu/blog/2009/06/web-development-future/ Web development tools I use and recommend Ok, not being original here, but still... a web developer's blog is never complete without this. Maybe somebody will find at least something useful here. So here goes: Tasks slicing designs into images and cobining it to (X)HTML/CSS script writing (PHP / JavaScript) debugging testing IE compatibility quick editing database handling OS: Microsoft Windows others Slicing Adobe Photoshop - using it ... http://jefim.eu/blog/2009/06/web-development-tools-i-use-nd-recommend/