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Troxler’s fading in CSS
Found this on Reddit couple of days back and thought of getting some CSS practice. Webkit only though. Firefox works too without the animation, but you can still see the effect.
Troxler’s fading or Troxler’s effect is a phenomenon of… more
Browseup
After going through another round of frustrations with cross browser compatibility, I created this ‘upgrade your browser’ page. Come on people, browse up.
The design is inspired by the new Blue Screen of Death in Windows 8. Download the code from Github, you can also see a demo of the page here. Switch the theme for a dark version.
Prevent multiple registrations by same email in mura
This was a request from one of the site visitors (my first request :)).
It was easy enough, the code is in the validate() method in userBean.cfc. You just need to add the highlighted lines in. Instead of modifying the… more
Building and hosting a free website
This is about a fun and very enlightening experience I had building the website for DC Diaper Bank, a non-profit organization that collects baby diapers for needy families in the Washington DC metro area. The existing site was built… more
Add user to a mailing list in the sign up form in Mura
I’m not sure if this functionality is already in mura, but I couldn’t find anything after browsing the forums. All I found was ability to add to mailing list from a custom form with 2 hidden fields, mlid = {mailing… more
Send account activation emails to users on sign up in Mura
This is a very simple way to send account activation emails and activate the user account once they click the link in their emails in mura. It uses encrypted usernames as the passphrase in the activation emails. You can set… more
Login with email address in Mura
This seems to be a highly requested feature, to allow logins with Email instead of username. The solution, I found is quite simple. The login method is in /requirements/mura/user/userUtility.cfc. Need to override that to check the email column as well.… more