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Green Bug Technology and Aircraft Sales and Parts web application

Darren Terhune — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:24:18 +0000

Last year I co-founded a new company called Green Bug Technology Group with a partner for the same area as me. My partner had an idea and I had the skills so we both started chipping away at a web application in our spare time that would give the aviation industry a powerful tool for [...]

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Truglaze Web Design Web Application built with Ruby on Rails

Darren Terhune — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:37:50 +0000

Truglaze.com is a website design I recently did for a client. Built with Ruby on Rails, it consists of a full custom CMS with a Flash Application to showcase all his selected photos from a portfolio component. (Powered by LaunchBit)

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Tips for starting a website using WordPress blogging software

Darren Terhune — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:32:15 +0000

With over 5 years of experience with WordPress, the powerful blogging / CMS application used to create millions of websites and blogs around the world, I have seen many, ups, downs, bumps, car jackings, fistacuffs, thrown computers, head bang on walls etc. After just updating my site for, hmm… the 8th time?, I’ve decided to [...]

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Screen Reader Users Usability And Accessibility Survey Results

Darren Terhune — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:53:13 +0000

Webaim has posted a very interesting and very full of information article with results on how disabled people with screen readers view web pages. I was shocked at alot of the results and will be bookmarking the page for future reference forsure. (Powered by LaunchBit)

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Handling Validation Errors using Ajax Requests in Rails

Darren Terhune — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:24:52 +0000

After spending about 6 hours reserching how to handle errors when using ajax requests to create, update and do other actions in Ruby on Rails I got fed up and started doing it on my own, with a little help from Agile Web Development with Rails. I spent countless hours looking through google and found [...]

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Prototype and Scriptaculous Drop Down Menu

Darren Terhune — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:35:04 +0000

I’ve made a cool drop down menu system using Prototype and Scriptaculous javascript libraries that utilizes some of the cool effects to create an animated menu system. Anyway here is droplicious v.2.1 I won’t be putting up new versions here anymore. It will now be at github (see link below… right below) Droplicious at github: [...]

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Web 2 point 0 website or business name generator

Darren Terhune — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:21:38 +0000

Can’t figure out what to call your sweet new web company? Here’s a cool application that helps you pick out cool web 2.0 company names that you can add to a domain availability checker to see if anyone has beat you to the punch… errrupt! I used it for a recent app I’m developing! (Powered [...]

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Web Two Point OH Website Directory

Darren Terhune — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:59:37 +0000

I’ve always wondered if there was a website that listed a bunch of web 2.0 websites all in one place, but never really ever ( for some weird reason ) searched it. Well today I did ( for some weird reason ) and found Go To WEB 2.0. I was pretty impressed with the RIA [...]

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Create Mac OS X Dock Magnification using Mootools

Darren Terhune — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:35:16 +0000

Fabio Zendhi Nagao is an applied mathematician from IMA who works in web application development. He’s developed some really cool effects using the Mootools Javascript library to mimic the Mac OS X Dock Magnification effects using standards compliant practices. When I first saw his examples I was pretty amazed. Best of all It’s free, open [...]

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Securing your email forms using css or php’s ming library

Darren Terhune — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:09:14 +0000

I recently had a coverstation with my teacher from last year Jim Rutherford from Digital Media Minute about securing web forms that have email fields where the email address ends up going to an mail script. I’ve always busted my brain on how to do this. I’ve used math equations, but a bot could just [...]

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Php error URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

Darren Terhune — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:21:16 +0000

If your have ever got this error: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration Using php functions like fopen, getimagesize it’s because your using a absolute path. It’s a security thing so that people can’t run scripts to open files on other servers other than there own. You can change this by configuring the [...]

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Run ie 5, 5.5, 6 and 7 without parallels or boot camp on os x

Darren Terhune — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:49:46 +0000

Mike has a cool application to allow you to run a number of ie’s in os x with a simple install, without having to boot up in windows operating system like parallels or boot camp. Now I haven’t read up too much about this project or tested it, but it seems pretty sweet! Booting in [...]

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Unobtrusive javascript textarea counter using Mootools Event Class and domready Event

Darren Terhune — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:11:36 +0000

Here’s a cool script for using with your applications if you would like to limit the number of characters in a textarea as well as show a user how many characters they have left. I wrote this using Mootools event and domready Event classes. For this to work you’ll need to have Mootools Event and [...]

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Work: Tigh-Na-Mara Flash Header

Darren Terhune — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:31:43 +0000

I forgot but I did a Flash header that dynamically loads images from a folder into the Flash application. I also did a cool thing where the Tigh-Na-Mara logo randomly scatters across the swf when you move your mouse over it. It’s kinda cool and fun. There were some dynamic gradient fades between the images [...]

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Javascript function to uncheck all checkboxes

Darren Terhune — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:22:34 +0000

Yesterday I searched and searched for a good hour for some unobtrusive javascript to set all check boxes within a div to unchecked when a user would click “None” for a none of the above type form, when I realized that, duh I know how to write javascript. So I wrote this function. Javascript: function [...]

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Grab color values from anything on your mac os screen

Darren Terhune — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:46:38 +0000

Digital Color Meter is a cool application located in Applications/Utilities/DigitalColor Meter.app. You can color pick anything on your screen and grab the color value in different formats to use in your projects. Update: You can also use shift + command + c to copy the color as a hex value and paste it into your [...]

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Free icon sets of all types

Darren Terhune — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:48:01 +0000

Tech Magazine had a post with links to tons of free icon sets. Some are even available for commercial use! (Powered by LaunchBit)

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A beginner’s guide to Moblie Web Development

Darren Terhune — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:43:51 +0000

Cool article on developing mobile web sites. If you know xhtml and are familiar web standards and new technologies you shouldn’t have any trouble building a mobile website! Sweet! (Powered by LaunchBit)

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Methods to hide email addresses from page source

Darren Terhune — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:08:21 +0000

Just stumbled upon a good site called csarven, that has a bunch of interesting ways to keep bots away from email addresses on web pages. (Powered by LaunchBit)

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A Flash Game

Darren Terhune — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:25:21 +0000

I just finished a small project for a friend of mine. I made a sweet flash game, where you try and shoot down helmets while being timed. After you shoot all the helmets you enter your initials and email address for a chance to win a free Darren Berrecloth signed, signature Deviant Helmet from Specialzied! [...]

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Bearclaw Invitational website

Darren Terhune — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:06:32 +0000

Been pretty busy in the last few weeks. Just finished a new site for a friend, who holds a Mountain Bike contest on Mount Washington Alpine Resort. Used WordPress and a theme from the themes repository that I modified a bunch. Looks pretty cool so check it out! Bearclaw Invitational. (Powered by LaunchBit)

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Ajax loading gif generator

Darren Terhune — Thu, 10 May 2007 00:21:47 +0000

Ajaxload.info is a site that allows you to customize your own ajax loaders. They have a bunch of different types and also let you pick colors too. Then you just download and use in your own project. (Powered by LaunchBit)

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Convert between bits bytes kilobits kilobytes megabits megabytes gigabits gigabytes

Darren Terhune — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:25:47 +0000

A not so eye pleasing but “get the job done”, data size converter. Here’s another sweet converter! (Powered by LaunchBit)

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Random quote generator using javascript

Darren Terhune — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:30:09 +0000

Here’s a simple way to generate random quotes on you webpage. Like the one I’m using on the right side of my Home page under the navigation. //first create a new array //here it's called pullQuote //you can specify how ever many values you like ie: 5 here var pullQuote = new Array(5); //use the [...]

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WordPress File Upload Error Security Fix

Darren Terhune — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:32:07 +0000

This is an UPDATE to snuff out all the whiny people that have been complaining about how this?‘old school fix’ isn’t the right way. When I wrote this it was around 5 years ago before wordpress had any nifty ways to get around this and before there were any cool plugins to solve the issue. [...]

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Optimize your CSS with CSS Tweak

Darren Terhune — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:30:13 +0000

CSS Tweak was built by Andy Peatling of Blaze New Media. He created a sweet application that takes your CSS file and removes everything but your code. Since CSS files make up a large part of the total download size of a web page it only makes sense to run your CSS through a application [...]

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How to make files download or load in the browser

Darren Terhune — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:40:55 +0000

This is how to make a file, (.mov, .pdf or in my case a vCard .vcf) download to your desktop instead of loading into the browser window. The problem I had was that my vCard was opening as text in the browser window, which is not useful to anyone. To fix this all you have [...]

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A Simple Birthday Calculator

Darren Terhune — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:11:07 +0000

I’ve always had a problem with knowing ahead of time what day my birthday was going to be on. Like if it was on a FRIDAY or SATURDAY, so that I could party. So HERE is a cool application that I just did in my php class. It takes your input and tells you what [...]