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August 6, 2008

Dennis Muhlestein
nonic
All My Brain
» GTK+ programs with GtkBuilder and dynamic signal handlers.

Well, I decided to review some GTK+ and Gnome development lately. With GTK+, a nice way to create a user interface is with the Glade Interface Designer. Glade produces an xml file with a glade-interface element that can be loaded by libglade. You can then change attributes of the user interface without [...]

April 11, 2008

Dennis Muhlestein
nonic
All My Brain
» Using YUI components in a templated environment

If you develop sites anything like I do, you'll end up setting up a site wide layout and theme before you start coding any individual pages. I like to add YUI components where they are useful, but I've come across a couple little quirks that were annoying me. Here are my observations and [...]

February 25, 2008

Dennis Muhlestein
nonic
All My Brain
» Image Upload with YUI Editor 2.5.0

The YUI team has been making further enhancements to the YUI library. I decided to stick together in one post all the previous resources I've added for the YUI Image Uploader and make sure the uploader was compatible with the latest version of the YUI Rich Text Editor. Image Uploader Client Code To use upload images [...]

February 11, 2008

Dennis Muhlestein
nonic
All My Brain
» Ten Principles Of Effective Web Design

Here is another article from Digg.com highlighting some effective web design techniques. I'm stockpiling these for the next time I have a new project that requires a new face. This one is particularly informative since it gives examples at the beginning of how users use the web and then shows how you can [...]

December 5, 2007

Dennis Muhlestein
nonic
All My Brain
» Creating Image Preview Tooltips with the YUI Overlay Widget

The Yahoo UI Library provides a nifty helper for creating tooltips. I started playing around with it when I wanted to add the same tooltip to a large number of elements on a page. What got me interested in this implementation, is the ability to use the same tooltip on a number of [...]

November 2, 2007

Dennis Muhlestein
nonic
All My Brain
» Upgrading to Xorg-X11 7.3 with ati-drivers 8.42.3 on Gentoo

I’m a sucker for bleeding edge technology. After posting before about upgrading to the 8.42.3 ati drivers, I realized I was using Xorg-X11 7.2, not 7.3, which is the latest. The latest 7.3 ebuild contains a block on the ati drivers. The block is no longer necessary though because the 8.42.3 drivers [...]

» Fixing Slow Resizing of Windows with Compiz and Emerald

One of the 1st things I noticed after upgrading to AIGLX with the new ATI drivers was that window resizing was incredibly slow. A quick search on Google yielded a LOT of results for the same problem. The first thing I noticed however, was that they were OLD forum threads. They did [...]