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Three separate paintings painted from the book The Art of the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game©. Practising freehand painting and different types of materials. (...)

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Creating a Better Multiple Select with jQuery and PHP

Edit 19.04.12: Demo added.

It’s about time for another tutorial. I wanted to share some code I’m using for administering a WordPress theme, but the principle can be applied to anything concerning multiple select in web forms. If you’re like me and think the standard HTML multiple select box just isn’t good enough – read on.

In this tutorial I’ll explain how to extensively improve the standard multiple select box by using a jQuery script. The script transforms the dull and impractical select box into something much more user-friendly along with the ability to reorder the chosen elements. I also show how you can retain the order of the selected items after the form is submitted – something I couldn’t find a guide for out there in The Great Internet.

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April 19th 2012 Tutorials, Web Coding , , , , ,

Javascript/CSS Performance Optimization

What affects browser performance and how can you optimize your javascript and CSS code in order to load the page faster? Explanations of web page rendering and examples of good and bad code, presented in a HTML5 slide-based webpage.

I picked up some good points I can use to improve my long-forgotten Griddler game, which stalled because of poor performance.

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March 3rd 2012 Interesting Reading , , , ,

The Work of Digital Speed Painter Nico Dimattia

If you have ever searched for speed paintings on Youtube, you’ve probably seen the work of Nico Dimattia. Dimattia is an exceptional digital painter from Argentina who has received worldwide attention on his Youtube channel with his amazing speed painting videos. In this article we will feature some of his videos and artwork. Let’s take a look!

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February 25th 2012 Artwork, Inspiration

15 Best Android Tablets in The World

Fancy yourself a tablet, but not an iPad? Unsure which one to get? Techradar keeps an updated post with the current top 15 Android tablets, reviews included.

(If I didn’t already have an iPad2, I’d totally fall for Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime)

Our list of the best Android tablets in the world – regularly updated. If you’re looking for a tablet and don’t fancy an iPad, then Android is currently the way to go.

Some tablets have ten-inch screens, others seven, and there are big differences in battery life, processing power and on-board RAM. So while we wait for the likes of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 and Amazon Kindle Fire, let’s see what the current best tablets are…

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February 21st 2012 Interesting Reading, Tech Talk ,

Dive into CSS3

Good introduction to CSS3, showing examples and code for different types of gradients, rounded corners and shadows. Also check out the links to tools for CSS3 experimenting.

Everyone who was ever interested in CSS3 has already tried it. Now we can generate rounded corners and drop shadows without any superfluous efforts.

But it’s just a superficial level. I had to look into the new possibilities of browsers in more detail, to answer the arising questions like: to what extent gradients with a great number of colour transitions have the cross browser compatibility, where and how is it possible to apply at once a few shadows to the block, for what browsers prefixes of properties are used specifically etc.

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February 21st 2012 Interesting Reading, Web Coding ,

Posted on personal blog » Yet Another Top Favorite Android Apps

I figured it was time for another round of Android apps since it’s been quite a development in the Android Market. Whether it’s competition or an inspiration of Apple apps, Android apps seem to have been taken up a notch lately – especially in terms of visual eye candy.

Here you’ll find 12 apps; 5 new favorite games and 4 great miscellaneous apps, as well as 3 apps that I use because my phone is rooted.

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An Alternative to the Shortcode Madness

Ever having difficulties remembering shortcodes and their syntaxes, or getting complaints from your site’s authors about how adding shortcodes should be easier and more user-friendly? This tutorial shows how a theme can add shortcodes in a dropdown in the WordPress editor.

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I tend to spend a good amount of my time continuing to learn WordPress and improve the ways I go about coding themes. With the vast majority of my WordPress development being done for clients, it is important to me to keep a good relationship with them. I feel part of maintaining that relationship is to provide a seamless, simple, and easy solution to their website project. I refer to this as the “Don’t make me think” approach, which pairs nicely with “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should”…

In most cases, clients spend most of their time adding/editing content in the editor. It is then important to keep things simple yet provide as much functionality as possible. If your clients or users are anything like mine, more than likely they don’t spend the vast majority of their time cleaning code in their favorite text editor and are probably not catching up on their RSS feed full of their favorite web related sites just before they go to bed at 2 am like the rest of us. Clients also get confused when they hear “It’s as simple as adding a class to the element” when trying to create the desired green glossy web 2.0 button. Usually this will lead you to a variety of blank stares as their idea of a class and elements is a room of kids and the periodic table.

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February 8th 2012 Interesting Reading ,
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