nivoSlider transition effects list and gallery

June 17th, 2016

The official nivoSlider documentation misses two transition effects and provides no visual demonstration of what they do. I’m here to fix this.


nivoSlider Effects Demo

All nivoSlider Effects

  • sliceDown
  • sliceDownLeft
  • sliceDownRight
  • sliceUp
  • sliceUpLeft
  • sliceUpRight
  • sliceUpDown
  • sliceUpDownLeft
  • fold
  • fade
  • random
  • slideInRight
  • slideInLeft
  • boxRandom
  • boxRain
  • boxRainReverse
  • boxRainGrow
  • boxRainGrowReverse

Composer not autoloading your package?

May 16th, 2016

I needed to link a GitHub hosted library into my project with composer. It was my own fork of a library that was abandoned. I didn’t want to register it with packagist.com because it already is infested with weeds of this kind. Conveniently, the library already had composer.json so I just needed to edit my project’s composer.json and link to the library. Easy I thought.

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AltDrive hangs when Creating Shadow Copy [SOLVED]

July 17th, 2015

I’ve been struggling with my online backup AltDrive recently. It seemed to continue a backup started a couple of days ago but never getting past the phase of Creating Shadow Copy. When I cancelled the backup process, I was able to start over but still the previous backup continued to hang in the progress window. I tried all sorts of things related to shadow copy but with no avail. I uninstalled the client (keeping settings because I didn’t want to lose backed up data) and installed a fresh version, no change.

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An island with a different viewModel

June 5th, 2015

I have a multi-page application with a navigation panel that is used across all pages. Each page has its own view model, the panel view model is the same. I could remember to always bind both models but I was hoping there would be a more universal solution. Some way to bind my one-page model to the whole document, and yet have an island of DOM elements automatically bound to a different model.
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KO validation with Bootstrap error and feedback? Can do.

June 3rd, 2015

I’ve been struggling to configure Knockout Validation to use Bootstrap error classes and form-control-feedback element. Finally, it’s working and now I’m going to brag about it. It’s quite simple really ;-)
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