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JavaScript string localization done right

December 1st 2010

I live and work in a bilingual environment and most of the things I work on needs to be localized. While it’s easy to do localization on the server side, it’s not so easy on the client side. There are several solutions available online, but most of the times they are either over-complicated or contains […]

The real world costs of an heavy website

November 30th 2009

You often read about why you should keep your web pages as light as possible to be quick to load. While all of this is true, there’s also a very important reason why you should keep your web pages as light as possible and that’s regarding bandwidth costs. We often take for granted unlimited bandwidth […]

Latests Plugins

INK – Own your content

INK is a new way to own your content. It’s a well known fact, the content you produce can be shared all around the web and in a very large number of ways. One of the most common ways is to simply copy the content and paste it wherever we want it to be shared. […]

prettyLoader

prettyLoader is a small (less than 4kb uncompressed) jQuery plugin that aim at making your life easier regarding ajax loader display. You know, when you do an ajax call and you never quite know where to position your loader. prettyLoader takes care of that for you, by default, prettyLoader will “hook” to the jQuery ajax function […]

prettySociable

prettySociable is a jQuery plugin that tries to make sharing fun while being easy to use. It was inspired by the sharing on mashable.com. While ShareThis and AddThis provides a very useful piece code that allow users to share basically anything everywhere, their solution is not the prettiest nor the easiest to use. prettySociable simply […]