MODx Web Development (ISBN: 9781847194909) is written by Antano Solar John and published by Packt Publishing. Download a free chapter (Ch 5: authentication and authorisation). Finally, there is a book available on MODx – it’s about time! MODx is an open source PHP CMS with an awful lot going for it. While gaining in popularity, [...]

Two excellent jQuery scripts which I rely on time and time again are the Galleria image gallery and Slimbox 2, a lightweight Lightbox clone which has recently switched to using the jQuery framework over MooTools (happy days!). Both scripts allow you to add impressive functionality to websites with very little effort. While the built in [...]

On implementing a photo gallery using the handy Galleria jQuery plugin recently, I ran into a a couple of issues. Firstly, the current version (1.0) does not work instantly with jQuery 1.3. You get error messages like “Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [@rel=…”. This is easily fixed. You just need to open the Galleria file and [...]

I was at the opening day of the 3 day Mashup Camp event at the Guinness Storehouse yesterday. It was a very late decision to go, because I was late finding out about it and we were only confident of being able to attend for one day. Somehow, I managed to sacrifice my precious Saturday [...]