A web developers blog

When developing a new site I always like to make sure I use the latest release of my javascript library hosted by Google. Then I just update it to a local version before the site goes live.

Today I came across a great little site that lets you get the links to the latest versions of the most popular javascript libraries quickly and easily.

I wrote an article a while back on font replacement techniques, this is a quick update about Google’s version of this which is seriously easy to use.

The Google Font API allows you to use any font from their font directory or you can use the font loader to load other fonts which they co-developed with TypeKit.

I wanted to make a quick bit of javascript that would enable or disable a text input based on whether a checkbox was checked or not. I thought this might come in handy so I made it into a tutorial and posted it here. This script will work for any amount of checkboxes and text inputs on a page. You can see a working demo of it here.

This is just an update post about what I’m up to at the minute and my ideas for this site for the future.

Lately I’ve been messing around learning ASP.NET MVC which has been interesting, but I haven’t had time for much else. Luckily I’ve done a lot of PHP and classic ASP programming so the c# syntax wasn’t too new and I love CodeIgniter so the MVC part wasn’t scary either.

If you’re creating a website for a client you will normally find they don’t want to learn how to use everything in the WordPress admin panel. They probably hired you so that they didn’t have to learn loads of new stuff and I’m sure what they wanted was a simple admin panel that made updating their site easy.