Palo Verde

Custom events with MooTools

Posted by Sam McCallum on Thu, 1 Jul 2010

Learn about sending and receiving custom events with MooTools 1.2. Using the document object you can send and receive events between classes that aren’t otherwise connected.

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A Textarea Counter & Limiter using MooTools

Posted by Sam McCallum on Mon, 14 Jun 2010

A MooTools based javascript component to easily limit and count down the number of characters typed.

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Adding a "Projects" Section to my site.

Posted by Sam McCallum on Sun, 13 Jun 2010

Today I am launching a new “Projects” section to the site. I will be using the new section to post some of re-usable web programming code snippets that I use commonly in development. I also hope to be releasing some larger personal projects to the sections in the future as well.

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Palo Verde Blog Mentioned on Zendcast

Posted by Sam McCallum on Mon, 10 May 2010

The Palo Verde blog and the post on creating a Zend_Auth_Adapter with Doctrine was mentioned on the January 23rd, 2010 Zendcast . Thanks for the mention, and great Screencast. I’ve watched a few and I’m really happy give back & contribute in some small way.

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Overriding Zend_Controller_Action

Posted by Sam McCallum on Sun, 16 Aug 2009

Extending Zend_Controller_Action can help make your app consistent and save you lots of coding down the road. In this post we'll look at how to write your own application controller that adds some of the commonly used basics, such as:

• An init hook.
• An authentication hook.
• A way to define the model or models being used.

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