Cabooodle

Feb26
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Cabooodle huh, what’s that?
Cabooodle, my new side project, is a community for creative people. It was born form the want to build something for the design community. I really enjoy working and interacting with designers at my day job, which lead me to the idea that it would be fun to have a place where we could post our work. From this Cabooodle was born.

I see an extra “o” in there.
Indeed! The definition of caboodle is: A lot, bunch, or group. 2. A crowd or collection of people. Expanding upon this, I added an extra “o” to the name and decided three o’s changes it’s meaning to: a collection of group of designers.

Why you might ask …
What about Behance and Dribble and abc, aren’t they the same thing? Well at the moment (of writing this), yes they are pretty similar. That however doesn’t mean that it will always be that way. I have plans for Cabooodle that will separate it from the pack.

So what’s it good for?
It’s a great place to show off your design work. You can upload projects, follow your fiends work and give feedback. It’s also a great place to get inspiration for your next project.

Python Simple Dates

Feb15
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Simple Dates for Python

simpledates is a library that was born out of the frustration of never being able to remember the Python datetime api. It’s goal is to simplify working with date / datetime and to provide a simple API that’s easy to remember.

Getting Started

Here’s a simple example of the API.

from simpledates import SimpleDate
from datetime import datetime

sd = SimpleDate('Aug 2nd 2012')
sd2 = SimpleDate(datetime.now())

print sd == sd2
print sd2 - sd
print sd2.past(days=15)
print sd2.future(months=2)
print sd2.is_it().weekday()
print sd2.is_it().monday()
print sd2.past(days=27).is_it().first_of_month()
print sd2.past(weeks=12).ago()

Get the source on Github

 

YUI3 port of the jQuery Validation Plugin

Jan26
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A YUI3 widget that’s modeled after the famousjquery-validation plugin

How To

new Y.YUI3Validation({
    formName: "#myForm",
    errorClass: 'my-error-class', #optional
    handleSubmit: mySubmitFun, #optional
    debug: false #optional
}).render();

Add one of these classes to your html form fields.

  • required
  • email
  • url
  • date
  • dateISO
  • number
  • digits

Optional Params

  • errorClass – default: ‘nv_error’ (the class that gets applied to all error messages)
  • handleSubmit – default: null (a function that handles the form submit action)
  • debug – default: false (adds some console logs)

Get the source on Github

 

YUI3 Sugar Methods

Jan01
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YUI3 doesn’t ship with a lot sugar methods like some other frameworks. At my day job we use YUI3, so I decided to write some sugar methods to help me save some time.

How To

Adding it to your application

    YUI({
        modules: {
            'yui3-sugar': {
                    fullpath: 'yui3-sugar.js',
                    requires: [ 'node', 'transition' ]
            }
        }
    }).use('node', 'yui3-sugar', function(Y) {
        /* ... */
    });

Using the methods


Y.one('#my-node').slideUp(0.7, callback);
Y.one('#my-node').slideDown(0.5, callback);
Y.one('#my-node').slideToggle(0.2, callback);
Y.one('#my-node').fadeToggle(0.7);
Y.one('#my-node').fadeTo(0.7, 0.5, callback);
Y.one('#my-node').fadeToColor(0.7, '#FF0000', callback);

function callback() {
   Y.log('callback hit');
}

List of Methods

-  toggle()
-  slideUp(int duration, func callback)
-  slideDown(int duration, func callback)
-  slideToggle(int duration, func callback)
-  fadeToggle(int duration) *not totally working correctly yet
-  fadeTo(int duration, string opacity, func callback)
-  fadeToColor(int duration, string color, callback)

Get the source on Github

 

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