devbox@COMPUTEC The Computec development blog

19Jun/092

Super sexy jQuery hierarchical menu for nondevelopers

It all started when I start looking for menu library for project I am working on.
Since jQuery was my framework of choice I wanted to find either plugin or inline code written in jQuery.
Surprise one. Google returns absolutely nothing. LOL. How it can be?! I mean, that's one of the most popular libraries written in JavaScript in last decade (and more). Next step was to check jQuery official plugin repository. There was much better situation and found 65(!) plugins in "menu" group.

15Jun/092

ColdFusion Pingback

Let me start with small introduction.

What is pingback?

"A pingback is one of three types of linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, or referring to their articles."
That's what Wikipedia says. I say this is nothing more but automation of politeness. When you quote someone's words, it's polite to notify author about it. And if author likes what you said about his work, he will linkback to you (post).

12Jun/090

Regular Expression Optimization

Last night I bumped on article talking about regular expression performance tuning. After reading it and since we extensivly use regex to parse article & community content, I decided to see can we do something to boost performance on that side. So, here we go.