June 26th, 2008 by Makis
Worked on Journalspace to upgrade the profile pages with more interactive actions in order to make them easier to configure. Using AJAX a user can now move the mouse over the title bar of any of the boxes on their profile, click and drag to move its position, or delete the box with a click of a button having an immediate visual impact on the appearance the profile page.
The above image is part of the profile page where you can see two of the main features implemented - the drag n drop repositioning and the confirmation box to delete some content.
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June 14th, 2008 by Makis
With this script you can load a number of RSS feeds and compile them into one RSS 2.0 file. Use it to present a mash-up of your news from different places (blogs, twitter etc.) or just present news from other sources around the Net.
Here is a sample of the RSS output, taken from our own network of websites.
This was a complete re-write for PHP 5 which has the SimpleXML extension that makes XML parsing a walk in the park. If you are still using PHP 4 though you can just use the older version.
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Version: 1.2
Language: PHP
File size: 2,91kb
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June 13th, 2008 by Makis
This website had been online for a while now but was never promoted as a resource site and was mainly used as a private tool for my online work. Now its been styled visually and released as a public service:
It is basically a database of code snippets I’ve gathered throughout the years of programming. Most of this code was resourced online at some point in the past so I’m simply putting online all that knowledge in one central place.
But on the development side I just created a skin for MediaWiki, to make the whole experience more comfortable.
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June 10th, 2008 by Makis
After a month and a half of gathering notes and fixing glitches, the updated engine is ready for you to use. Of course this was scheduled to be a bug-fix release over the previous version (as no program is bug-free from version 1.0) but in the process many new interesting features were added. Let’s outline some of the things that changed…
Read the rest of the release note
Learn more about Template Blocks
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Version: 1.1
Language: PHP, JavaScript
File size: 198kb
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June 8th, 2008 by Makis
SWFbox is a lightweight JavaScript file to present flash files as pop-ups on a page, pretty much like Lightbox does for images. Each SWFbox is dependent only by the id of the parent div (the swfName variable). That way you can have more than one SWFboxes in any page.
Click here for an example of the script
This is a minor bug-fix version over the previous one. I was waiting for more bugs to come in before I made another release but I guess it was pretty stellar. Thanks to everyone for downloading so far 
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Version: 1.21
Language: JavaScript
File size: 10,5kb
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