Simple Banner Rotator with JQuery tutorial

November 10, 2011 by fMajakovskij

In this tutorial we will see how it is easy create a basic banner rotator with JQuery library.

We are making maybe the simplest rotator out there.
So let’s get started.

Conditional check for active sidebar in WordPress

October 31, 2011 by fMajakovskij

After a lot of search on how to get is_active_sidebar() works, here the tip that just works.

If you need to check whether a particular sidebar is active (means has at least one widget registered) you should put on your theme the following code:

Programming a WordPress theme from scratch part 2!

by fMajakovskij

Wordpress

This is the second part of our step by step tutorial about programming a WordPress theme from scratch. Here you can find the previous one. Now we’re going to add some html code in our previous generated files. The Header [...]

Programming a WordPress 3.0 theme from scratch part 1!

October 17, 2011 by fMajakovskij

Wordpress

This is the first post about how to program a wordpress theme from scratch.
I’m not covering the styling part of a theme, but only the php part.
The first thing to do is to create a folder inside ‘wp-content/themes/ of your wordpress installation.

The rebirth of DisplayEditor class

February 18, 2011 by fMajakovskij

ActionScript, Snippets

Ok, the previous DisplayEditor class has been discontinued. I started to write it without make any search on what has already been done out there. It turns out the outstanding TransformTool by Senocular, which makes any further development of DisplayEditor [...]

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XMLDisplayManager 004

February 7, 2011 by fMajakovskij

Snippets

Here a quick update of the XMLDisplayManager with the addition of a couple of useful methods.
This update could be an excuse because there is also a first draft of a front-end, which could be named XMLDisplayViewer.

XMLDisplayManager 003

February 4, 2011 by fMajakovskij

Snippets

XMLDisplayManager gets a couple of new methods a some bug fixes.
Let’s get started with a live example.

XMLDisplayManager 002

February 3, 2011 by fMajakovskij

Snippets

Ok, a quick update to the XMLDisplayManager class.

In the previous post I’d explained the first method, to get the xml object from a DisplayObjectContainer.

Get XML definition from DisplayObject

by fMajakovskij

Snippets

I always thought xml in AS3 is powerful to handle data and configuration.
But sometimes it is a pain in the ass design classes that have to be configured by xml files.