http://www.andrewsellick.com andrewsellick.com Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:16:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en digg_url = "http://www.andrewsellick.com/94/advance-vista-styled-css-menu";   After seeing an amazing design tutorial on PSDTUTS for a Vista Style menu design a decided to give it ago and turn their design into reality.  Well I've built it and it looks pretty good (see the css vista menu demo) so I thought I would ... http://www.andrewsellick.com/94/advance-vista-styled-css-menu Here's a pretty useful function that clones objects with the use of recursion allowing deep cloning: function cloneObj(o) {      if(typeof(o) != 'object') return o;      if(o == null) return o;          var newO = new Object();          for(var i in o) newO[i] = cloneObj(o[i]);       return newO;  }   Original source snipplr.com. http://www.andrewsellick.com/93/javascript-clone-object-function I recently found an interesting forum post which detailed how to generate GUIDs using JavaScript on the fly.  Its very simple and looks as follows: function S4() {     return (((1+Math.random())*0x10000)|0).toString(16).substring(1); } function generateGuid(){         return (S4()+S4()+"-"+S4()+"-"+S4()+"-"+S4()+"-"+S4()+S4()+S4()).toUpperCase(); }   Originally posted by  Dr John Stockton on thescripts.com. http://www.andrewsellick.com/92/javascript-guid-generator Well I've just got myself a Playstation 3 so as you can imagine I was really happy when I finally got it all connected up?!  Thing is that's when everything seemed to go wrong. My first port of call, once inserting the basic settings, was to get connected to my wireless ... http://www.andrewsellick.com/91/playstation-3-ps3-and-bthomehub-network-issues-80710723 I have been looking about at form generators recently and I think it's fair to say pForm have created one of the best. The generator offers many options including; theme/colour scheme selection, the choice of a multitude of field elements (from a textbox to a file upload) to add to ... http://www.andrewsellick.com/90/html-forms-on-the-fly Script of the week this week goes to the CSS Text Wrapper.   On the website they state " The CSS Text Wrapper allows you to easily make HTML text wrap in shapes other than just a rectangle. You can make text wrap around curves, zig-zags, or whatever you want. ... http://www.andrewsellick.com/89/script-of-the-week-7 Well I'll start off by saying I'm not dead.  I'm very much a live and kicking.  Sorry for the delay in posting, however, I have been working on a couple of big projects which I will post about here soon so check back to find out more. Anyway back on topic ... http://www.andrewsellick.com/88/php-uk-postcode-validation So I've been blogging now for a  while now and I have recently been thinking, "What makes a successful blog?".  To be honest this is a question with endless answers, with many different variations and opinions, however, I thought I would voice my say. Content Well as they say content is key, ... http://www.andrewsellick.com/86/what-makes-a-successful-blog Over the last year or so I have been trawling the internet for SEO tips/advice and during my research I stumbled upon a free internet marketing book that may be of interest.  The guys/girls at Marketing Pilgrim dot com have compiled a free e-book offering great reviews of SEO as ... http://www.andrewsellick.com/87/free-seo-internet-marketing-book Well Christmas has been and gone (I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas/New Year), and now it's time to get back down to some work. I have developed a simple little class to highlight table rows using Mootools and I thought I would share it with the world. code As you can ... http://www.andrewsellick.com/85/javascript-table-row-highlighter-class-using-mootools