Articles tagged 'plugins and libraries'
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Unit testing the jQuery Rambling Slider - CoffeeScript, Jasmine and node.js
November 9, 2011
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on November 9, 2011.
As you may know, I have been working lately on the jQuery Rambling Slider. One of my personal milestones with this project is to write as many unit tests as possible, so I began my research.
Honestly, I didn’t know where to begin. I remember to have read once on twitter that someone was writing their tests with Jasmine and CoffeeScript, so that could be a good starting point (and it sounds really fun too!). I have worked with Jasmine before and it sure was a great experience. It’s yet another productivity tool made by the great Pivotal Labs guys.
After googling for a while, I stumbled into a post from someone that was writing tests in Jasmine and node.js
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jQuery Rambling Slider v0.1.1 is out!
October 23, 2011
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on October 23, 2011.
Yesterday, I released v0.1.0 of the jQuery Rambling Slider and, as it happens with with all software development, some bugs were found. But hey, I took the time to fix them and now the v0.1.1 is out!
Among the fixed issues:
- Some effects not working with the default settings.
- Flaky ‘boxRandom’ effect (some boxes not showing).
- Control Navigation not showing when styled to be outside of slider (negative margin and hidden overflow).
Let me know if you find any other issues. Major refactoring is up for next release.
UPDATE Version 0.1.2 was released.
:D
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jQuery Rambling Slider has been released!
October 22, 2011
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on October 22, 2011.
A while ago I was looking for a good image slider jQuery plugin to use on a project, and Nivo Slider turned out to be the best candidate. I made some modifications for my needs at the moment and issued a pull request, but had no luck. I also said that if my pull request didn’t get accepted or took too long to be accepted, I would release it myself.
Guess what? I got tired of waiting, so here it is! I just uploaded my first stable release of the now called jQuery Rambling Slider. :)
It’s still basically the same Nivo Slider with the tweaks I made in my fork. It’s now written in CoffeeScript, which I’m having a lot of fun with, while the compiled JavaScript…
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jQuery Nivo Slider and images of different size
October 1, 2011
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on October 1, 2011.
A couple of days ago, I needed to add a slideshow to a project that I’m currently working on.
When I googled “jQuery Slider”, I found lots and lots of options. I checked some of them out one by one, and one by one I discarded them, because it lacked a feature I wanted or, if it had the feature, it lacked cool animations.
I finally settled up for the Nivo Slider. But it had an issue. It used the images as the current background for the slider, which then meant that the images had to be the same size.
That might be fine if you have someone that crops the images to the required size… But what if you’re doing a project where it’s the end users that are going…