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Charts mit canvas und jQuery

Die filament group stellt ein jQuery Plugin vor mit dem aus (Daten-)Tabellen unterschiedliche Charts generiert werden können.

The idea of visualizing HTML table data has been a hot topic lately. The first mention of it that we have seen was Christian Heilmann’s YUI blog entry, which provides a clean solution for the problem using the Yahoo library. The idea is a good one: having the data on the page in a table allows it to be accessible, and the chart can be shown as a visual enhancement. Our attempt at solving the problem uses jQuery and provides several types of graphs, such as Pie, Line, Area, and Bar.

Checkliste für WordPress als CMS

Devlounge stellt eine Checkliste von Fragen vor die man als Richtlinie nutzen kann um zu entscheiden ob WordPress das richtige System für ein CMS ist.

• Is there even a need for a CMS for the client?
• Is WordPress the correct CMS? Will it fit the needs? Is the translations available for the WordPress backend good enough? How will it be upgraded?
• Will I need to extend WordPress using plugins? Are any hacks to the core necessary, because if they are, how will I make sure that these won’t break when the core is upgraded?
• What types of content will there be, and what should be deemed static (i.e. use Pages), and what is flowing updates (i.e. Posts)? How will I present this, and what is the main type of content?
• How will the permalink structure be? Should it really say “category”, why not “view” or “updates” or something else?
• Will the menu be static (i.e. coded into the theme) or controlled by WordPress (i.e. listing using WordPress tags for Pages and categories)? How could this go wrong in the future?
• What hierarchy will the Pages have? This is important for the URL, since it should be coherent with the menu hierarchy after all.
• How will I present sub-pages (i.e. Pages having a mother Page)? Should there be any at all?
• Do I need Page templates for various sections? How will these work with sub-pages?
• What categories will I use? Should the client be allowed to create new categories?
• How will I present Posts content?
• Do I need category templates for the various categories?

Desktop jQuery Documentation

Learning jQuery stellt einige alternative jQuery Dokumentationen vor.

Die Adobe Air Variante war mir neu. Hält aber (noch) nicht was ich mir versprochen hatte. Irgendwie ist die Nutzung nicht so “glatt” wie ich mir das von einer Desktop Anwendung wünschen würde.

Database design for CakePHP

Frank de Graaf erklärt seine Vorgehensweise bei Datenbank-Design für CakePHP Anwendungen.

To start with a CakePHP application you first need a proper database. This database will determine for a great part the structure of your application, with the data layer (Model layer) in particular. This article contains a way to a structured database and data layer for a CakePHP application from a conceptual point of view.

Sub Tag Cloud

Interessante Idee für umfangreiche Tag Clouds:

Using jQuery to reduce the size of the tag cloud that you have on your sites, so our demo will introduce “Hover Sub Tags” under each main Tag, for example if you have Ajax as a tag, you can have jquery, mootools, etc… as sub-tags. A Sub Tag Cloud will appear when hovering over the main Tag links.