http://htmlblog.net

Displays your IP address and with a simple Google maps mashup to display where you’re from.

Web2.0 design style done in my spare time after buying 3-g-iphone.com domain, using :

• YUI css grids for layout – 950px wide
• YUI utilities – for DOM manipulation
• YUI animation – for accordion effect for features
• YUI connection manager – for ajax calls to fetch latest news
• Magpie RSS parser – to parse iPhone RSS feed from engadget
• jQuery cycle plugin – for slideshow
• Website Performance online CSS sprite generator – for the features icons sprite
• Gimp – image manipulation
• Eclipse PDT – IDE

For those interested in the accordion thing, just have a look at the javascript :http://3-g-iphone.com/js/iphone.js

or if you want some help, just contact me.

Fresh from oven, read the announcement and grab it !

Still wondering whether it’s too hot or not for orange.mu website.

Before starting work everyday and while waiting Eclipse (PDT) to patiently build my projects, here are my favorite websites I must visit ranked in my personal order of preference :

• http://del.icio.us/popular/ – Helps me find interesting links for day-to-day work such as a new javascript framework, php tips/tricks, etc. Prefer it over digg
• http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/ – Get the latest football gossip
• http://slashdot.org/ – News for nerds
• http://www.facebook.com/ – you can add me as a friend if you want
• http://www.football365.com – funny and cool footballing news
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ – excellent ressource for developers and designers
• http://www.yuiblog.com – keeping up to date with my favorite javascript framework
• http://www.mauritiusblogtracker.com – what’s happening in the Mauritian blogosphere
• http://www.gizmodo.com – latest gadgets

It has been 1 month since www.orange.mu was launched and overall I’am quite satisfied with the new portal, compared to the old Servihoo one.

The main features which I’am very satisfied, from a technical point of view :

• built on bleeding edge technology (does anyone hear memcache here )
• almost all pages are valid XHTML 1.0 transitional (i do mention almost here)
• CSS layout, built on the fantastic YUI CSS grids and Blueprint CSS (look ma, no tables )
• heavy, very heavy use of javascript and namely the great, the fantastic and the one and only Yahoo! YUI library.
• various AJAX calls via YUI Connection manager. For example  taux de change on the homepage, where the info is retrieved via AJAX displayed in a cool YUI panel.
• follow Yahoo! rules for high performance websites (thanks YUI theater and Steve Souders for that). Not later than yesterday, expires headers were added to javascript components and a notable increase in performance has been noted. Naturally a lot is still to be done but we’re working on that.
• clean URLS

P.S I did watch Steve’s video from start to finish and I’ll recommend it to other web dev out there. The YUI theater is just great resource.

In fact it’s a simple app written in PHP5 using the screen scraping technique . Basically the script fetches the headlines from the local newspaper “Lexpress.mu” and displays them in your profile.

Add lexpress-mru app to your facebook profile. 

Download the php script here (requires php5).

Problem :

You want to display a particular post everyday but only during a time of the day, very useful when you’ve got a schedule you want to display.

Solution :

Post your entry but make the entry date a fixed one. For example, the post has entry date 2007-01-01 but with the time you want the post to display -> 2007-01-05 01:40 PM

Then in your exp:weblog:entries tag in your template just add the following:

stop_before="2007-01-01 {current_time format="%g:%i %A"}" show_future_entries="yes"

The new Servihoo Mobile Zone has been launched today, where you can get logos, tones, games and videos.

Check it here and tell me what you think!

P.S, Yahoo! YUI is just too great!!!