Hi, I'm Damian...

Damian Nicholson Welcome to my blog! I work at Orange Bus as a web-developer and have been building websites for around a year now. When I'm not glued to a computer screen I like to see live bands, read and play my guitar. Want to learn more?

11 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Why aren’t you Huffduffing yet?

Lets face it – finding interesting and information rich podcasts in a certain niche is hard work. The web is filled with podcast directories with no easy way to sift through the noise.
Enter Huffduffer
A service built by Clearleft’s Jeremy Keith, Huffduffer is a social tagging tool for audio files. Think of it as a Delicious [...]

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31 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Goals for 2010

Because I’m feeling very optimistic about what next year has to bring, I’ve put together a list of things I want to achieve. In no particular order, they are:

Release a jQuery plugin
I started making a very basic jQuery colour swatch earlier in the year, but it went on the back-burner before I managed to perfect [...]

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21 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Internet Explorer Stylesheet Limit

Did you know that IE ignores all style tags after the first 30 requests?
This had me scratching my head last week as I couldn’t fathom out why certain styles weren’t being applied to a lightbox in Internet Explorer, but were working just fine in all other browsers.
I figure IE  inconsistencies like the double margin bug, [...]

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13 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

TextMate CSS Colour Picker

Being a heavy mac user, I’m always in my favourite text editor – TextMate. Here’s a tip for when working with colour in a CSS file. This shortcut brings up a real handy colour picker.
⌘ + ⇧ + c
Once a colour has been selected, the corresponding hex code is placed at the current cursor position. [...]

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06 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

A precursor: jQuery UI by Dan Wellman

jQuery UI 1.7 by Dan Wellman

Not too long ago, I found out that Dan Wellman was looking for people to review his new book entitled jQuery UI 1.7. Naturally I jumped at the chance, and his publishers were generous enough to send me a copy.
I’ve used a number of the widgets included in the jQuery UI library before, and found [...]

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