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It’s been very quiet around here for the last few weeks. I guess everybody of the team has been busy – too busy to write articles at least. I know I was.

Today I stumbled upon a video which imo describes the situation of our daily work very well. So let’s whine a bit, then get a free hug from a colleague and after that GO BACK TO WORK!

Enjoy…

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(morganj): 0 is false and 1 is true, correct?
(alec_eso): 1, morganj
(morganj): bastard.

Have you ever had that problem: how do i do…. ? and couldn’t find the answer quick? Try one of those Cheat sheets. Print them, laminate them and put them next to your workstation. Just one quick look and you remember!

Cheat sheets for:

• Photoshop (CS3 & 4)
• CSS
• (X)HTML
• JavaScript
• mootools
• PrototypeJS
• and Flash

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or: the dangerousness of simple mathematics

I guess many people had this problem before and I think everybody managed to solve this quite similar. Anyways, just in case this is useful for anybody: here’s how I added a pagination to a site recently.

Given you have an array of products for example. Or maybe search results, a list of articles… something like that. Unfortunately they are too many to display them on a single page. Well, sure, you could but let’s be honest: that isn’t an option as the page would exceed its “scrollable-with-no-harm-to-scroll-fingers” length. And you don’t want to get sued by your visitors, right
Ok, so you’re going to add a nice pagination to your site, so that everybody is happy.
What I found out to be a bit tricky was to calculate the actual number of pages. We need that number so that we know, how many page links we will show next to our current view.
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As a web developer you always have to keep in mind that what looks great on your box not always looks that good on your client’s or on some random visitor’s screen. This is mostly because of the different browser engines and versions.

With this in mind you might tend to avoid any newer techniques, features or elements just to be on the safe side. But this also keeps you from using shortcuts and often results in worse quality.
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