Hello! I’m 99% sure that you already heard about APIs or REST APIs, it’s what Twitter, flickr and a lot more companies use to share they’re resources with a consumer. A consumer can be anything from a website (for example, showing your Twitter updates on your blog or personal website) to a desktop / mobile [...]

Hello! Today I presented a talk at BarCampPT about WordPress and its Plugins. The reactions wore fantastic and I would like to share the presentation documents. Warning: The presentation was made in Portuguese.

The WP-PLS (short for Parallel Loading System) is a WordPress plugin that will enhance the loading efficiency of your Blog. It’s very simple to use and it will require a small amount of time to configure in the start.

UPDATE – 18/05/2010 There has been an update on wp-e-commerce a few days ago and if you have applied my add-on you’ll probably have problems with the plugin. Post a comment or email me if you’re having problems. =============================== If you are using wp-ecommerce plugin for wordpress and you ran into some missing functionalities this [...]

Screencast – mod_rewrite and PHP from José Airosa on Vimeo.

Today I bring you an easy and quick CSS tip for making Star Rating layouts, only with the use of CSS. The great thing about this one that I’m about to show you, is the fact that it’s continuous, meaning, it will work with percentage.
Confused?

- Let me show you an example!

Hello fellow readers!

Sorry for not posting anything for so long, but my work has been taking me most of my time… anyway.

Today we’ll go over on creating a PHP Script that will resize and crop (if wanted) an image with the added support of cache.

Ok, as for my first post after my away time I’ll be showing you how to make a… Yes you figured it out, a TagCloud.

A TagCloud is as you know a Cloud… with Tags… hum, for some reason I think you already knew that. Anyway, jokes aside, a TagCloud is one of the most powerful visual information display nowadays. It’s not a complex module, by the opposite, it’s very simple.

Well… as some that might visited my blog noticed I had a small problem… yes yes… NO, it was not the Aliens… well ok, some might’ve helped, but… I lost most of my posts! Yes, it’s true, but now it’s not time to get upset. New posts are on the making Until then.

I had the idea of creating this style effect after seeing a similar one in other website, only it was pullup and not pulldown.

We’ll be using JQuery Framework to produce the desired effect. JQuery by itself only enables the dropdown of one element, to make the desired output we need to do some modifications, and that’s what we’re gonna do now.

First of all we need to import the required JavaScript…