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Checkboxes & RadioButtons for Mobile Experience

A few days ago I noticed how awful some of the Web experience can still be in mobile devices. A lot of websites are designed for the mobile experience but completely forget about some elements which are a pain to interact with in touch form: radio buttons and check boxes.

These are tiny and hard to interact with in small screens. Why make your users frustrated?

I went ahead and design a couple of those – and I’m giving away the PSD and working demo for you to use without restraints.

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Now in HTML5 flavor!

During the last couple of days, I’ve been teaching myself the good news that HTML5 has brought (or will, to be fair) upon us. After reading a whole bunch of resources, I decided to take the leap and adapt my Webfolio to HTML5.

I couldn’t be happier. Read on!

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Quicktip: Order MySQL by specific fields

Sometimes you need to retrieve some data from a MySQL database and order it by specific fields, where the ASC and DESC properties just won’t cut it. Fortunately I just found out that MySQL has a way of dealing with this, using a property called Order By Field. Continue reading…

User Login with Actionscript 3 and AMFPHP

Recently I’ve been experimenting with some components and frameworks for Flash CS4 in order to shave off some development time of a rather large application I’m building. And then I found, this later in the game, AMFPHP. Altough it’s not a framework by itself (it’s more like a Web Service), and the fact that it is now much more Flex-oriented than Flash, it can still save you plenty of time when dealing with serverside components from Flash.

One of my first attempts was to create a rather simple user login, comparing the user data from an actual MySQL database. The greatest thing about AMFPHP is that you don’t have to write anyspecific code to deal with the PHP data output format. This means no XML output, and therefore cleaner code from both ends. Continue to tutorial and sample files. Continue reading…