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Conditionally Sticky Sidebar

December 07th, 2006

If you use pretty much any browser except IE 6 (more on that later) when you visit this site, you've probably noticed that the dark-grey sidebar scrolls with you just until the banner and menu are off the page, and then locks itself into position or "sticks". When you scroll back to the top, if the menu and/or banner need to be seen again, the sidebar politely resumes its normal scrolling duties. Go ahead, try it now, I'll wait. Fun isn't it? I've had a number of people comment on that, so I thought I would outline how I accomplished it.

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Thoughts on a Javascript Library Integration with Code Igniter

November 27th, 2006

For reasons I'll disclose in the near future, I've recently been convinced that Scriptaculous, despite my thoughts on its "bloat", is in fact the best library for me to focus in on if I'm going to integrate it with Code Igniter. I'm currently committed to a project that I'm just finishing off that I've been developing using Mootools, but when its done any work I do in this area will probably be on Scriptaculous integration.  I'll release the mootools library when I'm done of course!

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Quick Link: Javascript object literal namespacing

August 29th, 2006

Tim McCormack has an excellent summary of Javascript object literal namespacing.

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Derek Allard

I'm Derek Allard, a programmer, author, and award-winning instructor. I'm also a Technology Architect at EllisLab, and the programmer behind BambooInvoice, a simple, Open Source, web-based invoicing application. [ more about Derek ]

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