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A little under a week ago, Fivetwelve launched the brand new website palletwaystracking.com.
Like the name suggests, palletwaystracking.com is an improved tracking interface for all Palletways customers to use who wish to find up to date tracking information for their Palletways consignments.
For a fun new project, Fivetwelve have launched a brand new URL shortener.
Introducing ftw.gd – the URL shortener with a fun twist.
If you’re familiar with the technical babble of “leet speak”, with slang such as “ftw”, you will like ftw.gd. It’s a great new URL shortener that is free for everyone to use for sharing short links on sites such as Facebook and Twitter. It also has a bit of a fun twist on it.
So the next time you need to shorten a URL for your tweets, give ftw.gd a try.
Again, this is more a note to myself, but I find the best function to preload images with jQuery is the following:
jQuery.preloadImages = function() {
for(var i = 0; i<arguments.length; i++)
{
jQuery("<img>").attr("src", arguments[i]);
}
}
This accepts X amount of arguments and can be called like the following:
$.preloadImages("/static/img/loadinganimation.gif", "/static/img/throbber.gif");
Why would you want to do this? Simple – if you’re using any “loading animations” on your site, with animated GIFs, you may find that on first activation on certain browsers the GIF is missing. If you preload it using a function like this one, your problem is solved.
Credit to this function goes to bloggingdeveloper.com.
This is more a note to myself than anything, but I hope this can be a use of other developers looking to regex validate UK Postcodes. This validates all postcodes including London ones fine. (more…)
So I thought I would break away from the usual “very technical” programming tutorials and today write something that bears a bit more relevance to the average UK household – broadband ISPs.
This subject is something I feel quite strongly about, as I’m obviously just not an everyday Internet user. Occasionally I game online, I regularly stream HD media via services such as iPlayer and I’m always browsing countless pages as well as maintaining websites via services such as FTP. Therefore I feel a reliable broadband service is pretty much the bread and butter for me – almost as important as something like running water and electricity. So forgive me if this article waffles on a bit. (more…)