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  • How To: File Upload Progress Bar. No Flash. No PHP addons.

    June 28, 2011
    in Tips & How To’s

    Upload progressbars are pretty common on the web these days, they add a touch of feedback to the long and mysterious process of uploading a file to a website. Unfortunately, the most common methods for doing so involve flash or baring that PHP addons that require a recompiling.

    In this post I’m going to talk about creating an upload progress bar without the need for a clunky flash object. I’m going to do it with PHP, jQueryUI and a gracefully-degrading framework-independent library.

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  • Was True North really planning an NHL announcement last week?

    June 2, 2011
    in Winnipeg

    I was poking around the HTML source of the Winnipeg NHL season tickets drive website – driveto13.com – on Tuesday where I discovered this HTML comment.

    It looks like True North was actually planning an announcement last week. As of today (June 2nd) 5 of 8 presale groups have been activated. This HTML comment points to a timeline starting last Tuesday, just like earlier rumour suggest.

    Here’s a link to the full source, since it’s been updated recently.


  • Lunch-Hour Link Log

    May 11, 2011
    in Links
    Hope you ate some delicious coffee for breakfast.
    3 videos for your lunch hour. Enjoy.
    • Fish stick sandwich burrito
    • Vegan Black Metal Chef: Pad Thai
    • The most efficient way to chop wood ever

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Hello, my name is Ryan! I’m a web developer in Winnipeg, Canada. I’ve been documenting my random thoughts and occasional bits of interesting code here since 2005. Twitter. Github. Instagram. Mastodon.

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