I have updated my previous auto suggest box plugin for jQuery. It has been a long time coming, the improvements are a combination of feedback received by others and things I have wanted to do for a while myself.
The main points of improvement are;

Updated for jQuery v1.4.x
Support for jQuery themes. Takes on the…

Have you used Goggles? If not then go try it, have a lot of fun, then come back to read this blog post when you’re finished.
Goggles is great fun but good intentions aside the thing attracts a lot of abuse. For example, visit some of the popular sites on the internet then switch on…

I’ve been programming in C# on a daily bases for 5′ish years. Over the past 2 years I’ve also been programming heavily in Python. I use both languages for the same thing which is to build web applications and web sites. The only thing that made me learn Python was Django because I wanted…

Have you ever looked at the robots.txt file of a web site? They exist so that web sites can stop search engines and other similar robots from indexing web pages on a web site. However they are often used to hide web pages on live web sites that the web site owners don’t want…

When Android came out I was excited, a mobile platform by an internet giant, hurray! It wasn’t just that Google developed it, the platform has amazing features and the fact that it is open source, to me, meant new features would come thick and fast and there would be choices. However my enthusiasm for…

South, the schema and data migration tool for django is really useful. I’ve only started using it myself recently but the benefit is immediate. South creates python files which hold all the information for migrations each time you change the database schema. Each person in a team of developers needs to run these migrations…

Django has a great solution for web site permissions, it allows the developer to decide how a user can interact with an application based on permissions against models (i.e. database tables). By default a model comes with three permissions, add, change and delete. If these aren’t enough then you can create as many custom…

Have you ever needed to interrogate a web form post on the internet? Probably rarely if at all. However with the popularity of API’s and web services it can be very handy to know how to see the data that a post request is sending. There is a great little service that enables you…

I’ve been reading about HTML 5 and the new JavaScript API’s for it just recently. I liked the new video stuff so thought I’d have a go at doing something with it. So as a bit of an experiment I have created a pretty simple video tagging app.

It allows you to click in…

I’ve been using Wingwares python IDE for Django development for almost 2 years. The Wingware IDE has been very good but I have had a few superficial annoyances with it so decided to look around and see what other IDE’s I could use. This led me to Eclipse. The first time I had a…