I was in a mess… PHP mail took hours to be delivered
Recently something has changed with the email security check adopted by Gmail and often emails sent via PHP mail() (using the PHP mail server) took hours and hours before being delivered. From the Google Toolbox I just discovered that my emails…
How to start over the audio each time you click play with the mb.miniAudioPlayer plug-in
Someone asked me if the player could be set to start over when the it is paused and played again. At the time the player behavior is that if you pause it and then play it again it starts from…
Add a YTPlayer background video on WordPress post category page
I’m writing this post because of the many questions I received on how could be implemented the YTPlayer in a category page of WordPress. Adding it to the home page (when the home page is the recent post list) and…
Create images and make them travel the world using HTML5, SVG, Canvas and Javascript
In the past months we had the opportunity to work on finding the best solution for composing and manipulating vector images in the context of an HTML5 web application for smart phones, tablets and desktop browsers. The scope of the…
jquery.mb.bgndGallery 1.7.5. Make your custom transition
I’ve just updated the mb.bgndGallery adding some defaults effects for an easy implementation. For all of you that where getting creasy on how to set the correct transition for the sliding images, this update introduces some built in effects you…
Making HTML5 audio actually work on mobile
This story starts when we had to provide audio to an HTML5 game we were building.
The game is for mobile browsers, actually a limited and updated range of mobile browsers: Safari for iOS 6+, and the stock browser (i.e. the default browser) for Android 4+. With the well known scaling trick (CSS “transform: scale(…)”) which we built in our mobile app, we got it to run quite nicely in all resolutions, so also on desktop browsers. Hence we would want our audio solution to work also on desktops.
Syncing multiple Google calendars on iOs Calendar
If you are getting crazy trying to sync all your Google calendars on your iPhone or iPad here is the solution: Creating a gmail account from settings > mail, contacts, calendars you can than sync the default Google calendar with…
How to add a functional dock to jquery.mb.containerPlus
Many times people are asking me to implement features to my jquery components but most of the times those features are easily implementable by adding custom behavior to the callbacks functions yet available. In ths post we’ll see how to…
How to use a Yotube movie as background of your HTML page
One of the latest component I’m working on is an easy to build custom Youtube player. The new Youtube API allow developers to invoke a chrome-less AS3 player and use a javascript API to build our own controls, we have…
A new Patapage tutorial: how to customize a button…
Take a look at this article on how you can customize a Patapage button on your page instead of have the default docked one: http://blog.patapage.com/
