http://briask.com/blog Briask, learning PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, Joomla! Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:18:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/07/24/minor-update-to-imageslideshow/ 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 ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/07/14/ok-computer-just-start-already/ 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 ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/06/30/what-a-to-do-about-what-to-do/ 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 ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/06/24/final-fantasy-take-a-listen/ 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 ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/06/16/return-from-vacation/ A Joomla! module is a simple extension to Joomla!. Many modules are display only or have limited interaction with a user. For more complex extensions or interactions then Joomla! plugins or components are more appropriate. In this post I'll describe the basics of module development as I understand them. Written in PHP, at ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/05/20/how-to-write-a-joomla-15-module/ ImageSlideShow is now feature complete. Well, it is as complete as I'm going to make it for the moment. It can be downloaded from here. What is ImageSlideShow?  ImageSlideShow is a simple Joomla! module written in PHP and Javascript. The module displays a sequence of images from a specified directory either in order or ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/05/13/imageslideshow-for-joomla-15x/ Finally got the finger out and got around to implementing fully the resizing capability for ImageSlideShow. It is on view and in test on the demo site here. I still need to spend some time testing / tweaking it, just to make sure all is ok and that I can provide ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/05/11/image-slide-show-and-resizing-images/ Came across this guy today as I was looking for some more music to relax the brain while I struggled with real world work. Seriously though I have to get back to ImageSlideShow and complete its functionality, still have not released the resize capability which I think would round it off nicely, not too ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/05/07/joomla-and-more-music-i-like/ Briask doesn't get to spend as much time as he should on working with Joomla and the ImageSlideShow module, real life and real work keep on getting in the way. One thing I do get to do every day is read the email/comments and respond to them if I have an answer or ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/04/23/bug-fixing-for-imageslideshow/