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Comment on New Joomla! banner component by Darb

Darb — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:46:05 +0000

Good to see that you have put it up on JED!

Thanks from the Joomla community!

rgds

Comment on New PC - 2/3 purchased! by Cheesy Name

Cheesy Name — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:14:31 +0000

Hey John! Long time no see dude. Trying to get in touch with you - drop by sometime

Comment on I’m a Linux geek! by johnmccollum.co.uk » Blog Archive » New PC - 2/3 purchased!

johnmccollum.co.uk » Blog Archive » New PC - 2/3 purchased! — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:29:10 +0000

[...] making the switch to Ubuntu certainly extended the lifespan of my home PC (I would probably have chucked it out of the nearest [...]

Comment on Simple Jquery and CSS menu by redsquare

redsquare — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:08:06 +0000

No probs, any issues come join us at #jquery irc channel on freenode

Comment on Simple Jquery and CSS menu by admin

admin — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:11:29 +0000

Hi Redsquare,

Thanks for your comment! For some reason I never think to use the ternary operator - good tip. I’ll also check out the toggle() function. Still got quite a bit of reading to do to be completely up to speed on Jquery, but I’m loving the experience so far!

Cheers,
John

Comment on Simple Jquery and CSS menu by redsquare

redsquare — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:19:48 +0000

Hi Mate,
Welcome to jq. I noticed in your code that you repeated the selector.

The following snippet
if($(”li:not(:first)”).is(”:visible”)){
$(”li:not(:first)”).fadeOut(”fast”);
}else{
$(”li:not(:first)”).fadeIn(”fast”);
}
would read better as

var listItems = $(”li:not(:first)”);
listItems.is(”:visible”) ? listItems.fadeOut(”fast”) : listItems.fadeIn(”fast”);

small improvement but good for performance and readability

However even better would be to make use of the toggle() function

so you can say

$(”li.starter”).toggle(
function(){
$(”li:not(:first)”).fadeIn(”fast”);
},
function(){
$(”li:not(:first)”).fadeOut(”fast”);
}
);

Now each click will toggle between the two given functions.

Happy jqueing

Comment on New Joomla! banner component by admin

admin — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:10:46 +0000

Hey Darb,

Thanks for all your encouragement! I’ve taken your advice and notified the JED, hopefully it should be listed there soon.

John

Comment on New Joomla! banner component by Darb

Darb — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:18:10 +0000

nice work hope you will put this up on the joomla directory as well!

rgds

Comment on Stumbleupon - turn off sneaky bookmarking by admin

admin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:41:47 +0000

Fair enough, diff’rent strokes for diff’rent strokes!

Kortnee, it made me thumb up a lot less too; that might be why I didn’t like it! I tend to be free and easy with the thumbs.

Comment on Stumbleupon - turn off sneaky bookmarking by Kortnee

Kortnee — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:03:40 +0000

I love it. And all of mine are sent to a neat little StumbleUpon folder. This is handy and makes me thumbs up a lot less often.