Xtremax - Web Design

Recently, I was dumbfounded when during a presentation, an IT Consultant asked me if Google Analytics (GA) will actually work in their environment which is protected by a barrage of firewalls.  Now wanting to give a wrong answer (even though I was pretty confident that it was yes…) I told her that I will check [...]

I was always downloading the jquery javascript and playing with its functions until I realised that hey… it can be done dynamically by google.  Basically, it is a 2 step process:
Step 1:  get the jsapi javascript from google
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script> <script>   // Load jQuery   google.load("jquery", [...]

Was trying to figure out the logging architecture of the NCC application when I found something very useful in the debugging of Joomla applications. There are often times when you would very much like to look at all the SQL statements which have been executed in the page request.  It can be easily done in [...]

I was assigned a task by Mr. Otter, recently. It was basically to do a review on available Gallery Components for the Joomla CMS. I will do a quick review for the component Morfeoshow image gallery along with screen shots to give you an insight over it. I have used graphics to expose the functionality [...]

Quite often, in CMS driven websites, the thumbnail images to be shown on the listing page is very hard to be controlled to be the same size, especially for clients who do not have image processing knowledge. I discovered a easy workout which can automatically crop the images and add a nice border.

Well, just chanced on a really, really hot backend administration panel.  Major revamp.  Loved the activity logs, mac like toolbar at the bottom, easy templating mechanism. etc.
Check it out!
http://www.adminpraise.com/

Have been working on a serious of frameworks by now.  Most mature frameworks have their own validation framework.  This ensures that field validation are handled in a standard way.  Hmmm, does Joomla have something similar?
Let’s Investigate.
Step 1: I tried to submit an article via the front end.  Was confronted with a javascript alert box that [...]

For a moderately sophisticated web application, you will generally have some tasks which you need to be run on a regular basis.  In Java you have the quartz framework.  In .NET, I hear they rely on the Windows Scheduler to schedule regular jobs.  How about Linux, PHP?  I am aware that we can probably do [...]

I was looking at the JHTML framework in Joomla.  Basically JHTML does a lot of html formatting which is a common functionality of all web applications. 
Fired up my PhpED to take a look at the include paths of JHTML by calling
JHTML::addIncludePath()

It seems that JHTML by default has only one include path at:
libraries/joomla/html/html

Well, there are a lot of useful infrastructure codes in Joomla.  One of it has to do with email cloaking.  Basically joomla has a way or writing out the entire email address via javascript… so that spiders (which are generally just scraping the HTML with no javascript interpretation will not be able to read the [...]