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5 steps to read less and learn more

reading-catI used to read a lot, when i wanted to try something new i used to learn everything about it before even starting, result: i got bored on the process and just forget about it or i discovered something similar and then i wanted to learn about that as well… so i never started anything….

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Smart Donations

Hello!, i just deployed my first WordPress plugin, Smart Donations. This plugin lets you pick different styles of donations and add them to your posts (as a shortcode) or to any sidebar (as a widget). Currently i am supporting four styles of donations:

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Type of Donations

  • Classic: Just the classic paypal button, you can configure it to show the credit card logos or not.
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  • Text Box: ...
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Using multiple versions of jquery ui

If you are creating a javascript component that relies on jquery-ui a good approach is to use your own jquery-ui library, the reason is that jquery-ui can be tailored in very different ways so you can not expect that all the websites will have the version that you need. But things are not that easy, if you include your own version of jquery you can potentially break another component that also uses jquery-ui. or even worse, if another component ...

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iOS Circular Progress Bar

This is a a circular progress bar that i did  for an iPhone project. The progress bar uses core graphics so it is very customizable.  As you can see on the screen image, you can change the size, colors and everything. Also, since it is using core graphics to do everything you could tweak it without many issues, for instance, you could add some animations to the progress bar.

Here it is:Circular Progress Bar. The zip contains the circular progress bar component and ...

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Comparing stock image web sites

I consider myself a good programer but, like most of us, i suck at designing, i know the basic rules of design, how to pick the right colors, how to align stuffs, the golden rule etc. but i can not create an awesome design even if someone point me with a gun, and it is even worse if i try to create the images by myself. Probably if i spend a lot of time trying, i could become good at ...

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