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Speed Up Your Pages With Lazy Load JQuery Plugin

Jun 15th

Posted by Antonio Ramirez in How To

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I would like to introduce you this simple but very efficient plugin that will help us speed up the downloading time of our web pages. I am talking about mr Mika Tuupola’s Lazy Load JQuery Plugin.

This plugin loads the images of a web page as the user scrolls to their position, that is, images wont load until they are not within the visible viewport margins of the window.

How to use

First we need to insert the following references into our code


<!-- insert a reference to jquery and the jquery.lazyload plugin -->
<script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="jquery.lazyload.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

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Handling Timeouts with PHP5 SoapClient Extension

Feb 2nd

Posted by Antonio Ramirez in How To

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I was breaking my head towards a silly thing around SoapClient Calls. My actual project requires Soap Calls to certain providers and everytime I was calling the external server, I had to wait for the server response (if any) and if the server failed to respond accordingly… damn… Warnings and/or Errors displayed and boom… My great application just looked like… well, forget it, I just used the try and catch statements for that… not big deal.

So I jump over Google’s horse and looked around implementing timeouts! because that was a true issue. Can you imagine? A user makes a request More >

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Get Latitude and Longitude with Google Maps V3

Jan 22nd

Posted by Antonio Ramirez in How To

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I would like to share with you a little piece of code that I find quite useful in my applications. I do create lots of guides that require a small utility to find out the latitude and longitude of a business location from a control panel in order to display the maps appropiately on the Web. Here I will do my best to explain a step procedure on how to do that -once you know the procedure, it is easy to create plugins or whatever you wish to do.

Step 1

First of all, lets make a reference to the new More >

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Xampp

Fixing 500 Internal Error on Xampp

Jan 12th

Posted by Antonio Ramirez in How To

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First of all, let’s talk about XAMPP a bit. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.

There are three types of distribution (Windows, Linux and Mac). I am not going to discuss anything about XAMPP, I think that with a visit to their site you will all the info required to install and run this wonderful package.

What I want to concentrate on is that when trying to use a regular .htaccess in a specific folder, Apache fires a beautiful and really annoying More >

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SWFUpload_0_0. Error HTTP Status: 403 Solved

Jan 5th

Posted by Antonio Ramirez in How To

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SWFUpload is a client-side file upload tool originally developed by Vinterwebb.se. It uses a combination of Flash and JavaScript to provide file upload functionality beyond what the basic browser provides with the <input type=”file” /> tag.

The main features that SWFUpload provides are:

  • The ability to select multiple files in the file browser dialog.
  • AJAX-style uploading without a page refresh.
  • Upload progress events.
  • Namespaced classes compatible with other JavaScript libraries (i.e., jQuery, Prototype, etc.).
  • Flash 9 and Flash 10 support. (Flash 8 support dropped in version 2.2.0)

SWFUpload is different from other Flash based upload tools because of the philosophy behind its design. SWFUpload gives developers control by More >

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PayPal

How to change Paypal’s front page language

Dec 22nd

Posted by Antonio Ramirez in How To

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I am currently developing an application and I wanted to use PayPal’s checkout method as now it allows us, mere mortals, to use our credit cards without the need of being paypal’s user. But, I had a huge problem, I explain:

My Web project has multiple language support, that means, that a guy can choose the language he wants to see or experience my site, that a guy can be in Australia and be Spanish and choose to view my site in Spanish. You may wonder why I am explaining so much this, well, it seems that the guys from PayPal More >

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