Minor update to ImageSlideShow
Following on from a number of comments left here on the website and some direct email, including helpful hints and tips, I’ve a minor update to ImageSlideShow to share.
It is a minor update but an important one. Unfortunately due to the way ISS has to work and my limited knowledge of Joomla, ISS would fail validation for XHTML due to how the internal CSS and javascript files were loaded.
David sent me a resolution to this demonstrating the use of the addStyleSheet and the addScript functionality of the Joomla JDocument class
$doc = &Jfactory::getDocument();
$doc->addStyleSheet(JURI::root(true) . '/modules/mod_briaskISS/mod_briaskISS.css');
$doc->addScript(JURI::root(true) . '/modules/mod_briaskISS/mod_briaskISS.js');
So that change has been made, tested and the updated version of ImageSlideShow is available from here .
OK Computer! Just start already…
My long suffering Dell is giving up the ghost. The main hard drive has packed up and left… the backup thankfully is alive but is not bootable so kinda hard to actually make any use of it… It’ll be a while before I can get a replacement and get my environments back up and running.
What a to-do about what to do!
Since coming back from vacation I’ve been playing around with some ideas on what I should spend some time on next.
ImageSlideShow probably needs a minor update to round out its functionality and allow people to tweak more to their liking. Might also review the code as it was pretty much the first piece of Javascript/PHP I’d ever written so bound to be room for improvement.
Some ideas of galleries, site statistics, weather components have been floated, investigated and are now sinking rapidly! Look like too much time needed to invest in them to produce a quality component. I only have a few hrs at night to do this and Ido have a life too!
One thing that keeps sticking in my mind is that I’m here learning Joomla!, working through components, plugins etc and wanting to learn more about it but yet I use WordPress for this blog! Might have to change that…
Before I change it though I really want to work on how the site looks. Currently using a free wordpress theme from Brian Gardner specifically his Revolution Blog theme which, from looking at the code is well thought out and well crafted theme. I haven’t spent much time working with CSS, HTML or templating in Joomla! so think I’ll make that my next project, to design a new look for the demo site and create a new template for it, lets see how it goes 
Final Fantasy - take a listen.
Not the music from the game Final Fantasy but the band? Final Fantasy or probably more correctly Owen Pallett . Love the simplicity of his music helps me chill out when having a stressful day. If you recognise the sound it might be down to his work with Arcade Fire, another favourite of mine.
Quite unusually I across his music while listening to LiveDrive, far and away the most useful radio programme I have ever listened to in Dublin. I have the misfortune to commute during rush hour in Dublin, takes me at least 70 mins to drive 10 miles and without Sarah & crew in the morning and John & friends in the evening I would be stuck in traffic for so much longer. Good accurate traffic reports with great range of music makes it an enjoyable commute. Public Service broadcasting at its best!
LiveDrive is broadcast by Dublin CIty FM. Sarah also has a music blog for her Critical Junctions section here
Anyways, direct from YouTube, the song This is the dream of Win and Regine. Enjoy
Return from Vacation!
Hi! Just returned from the land of the Mouse and his friends in Walt Disney World after a fantastic vacation with the family.
Seem to have picked up several hundred spam comments in the few weeks whil I was away so am going to use the big Delete button rather than read through them all and decide which are useful and which are spam, life is too short for that!
Will also be starting up a new blog recounting our experiences in Walt Disney World to share with family and friends at http://www.ourdisneyholiday.com
Briask- Minor update to ImageSlideShow
- OK Computer! Just start already…
- What a to-do about what to do!
- Final Fantasy - take a listen.
- Return from Vacation!
- How to write a Joomla! 1.5 module.
- ImageSlideShow for Joomla! 1.5.x
- Image Slide Show and resizing images.
- Joomla! and more Music I Like
- Bug fixing for ImageSlideShow