Today jQuery 1.4 was realeased and a 14 day event (14 - 28 of Jan) tas begun in www.jquery.com to celebrate the coming of the new version. jQuery is by far the best javascript library, that managed to resurect Javascript.

I’ve been very busy lately developing for more projects that I can handle, so I’ve neglected my blog a little bit. Anywayz today I decided that I should use Kohana instead of Code Igniter for a major project. The Kohana/Code Igniter was a great dilemma, that was faced with another greater dilemma regarding the version of Kohana that I will be using. Should I use the stable one 2.3.4 or should 2.4 or even 3.0 that is not yet supported. I really don’t understand why they are developing both version 2.4 and 3.0 at the same time. Why don’t they stick to a certain plan and follow it to the end?

Found some extra time in the weekend and finished jSnow version 1.2. I faced a lot of CSS problems and dilemmas but I think I managed to solve most of them. So what’s new in this version?

At byteme.gr you can find my latest article that I made regarding the gaming areas of computer and electronic shops. I've visited four stores and took more than 150 photos (used 50).

Read more here (sorry it's in Greek).

During the Christmas 2009 season, I will use jSnow 1.1 to decorate byteme.gr with a special type of snowflakes...space invader snowflakes! The code used is very simple and it consists of two parts A) PHP and B) the jSnow implementation. I am using PHP because I want it to (j)snow after 19:00 and until 8:00 in the morning (Greek is set to +2:00 GMT), not all day long :).

Now in version 1.1 jSnow is the way it was meant to be. With the latest version 1.1 of jSnow I've fixed more than 5 bugs (mainly wrong CSS declarations), added image support and improved animation speeds.

For more information visit jSnow's page.

Here you can see a very nice, fast and smooth example of jSnow 1.1 with image animated snowflakes.

Today Drupal released new version updates for 6.x and 5.x. There are many bug fixes and one very important security fix. I urge you to update your drupal websites/portal as soon as possible, in order to avoid the worst. I know that you are bored (so am I), but whenever I postponed it I got into serious trouble and spend triple the time in order to fix the problems and then update the site :(. So stop whining and update your Drupal installations asap...

Today I've uploaded my first CSS skin, for byteme.gr! We were discussing (with the other guys in byteme) the possibility of a Chrismtas skin, in order to dress up for the holidays and we made it happen!

When it came down to CSSing, I thought it will be hard to apply such a global change, but thank god it was very very easy! How did I do it? Very easy. I applied an extra CSS file (it was the last one called byt the page), and replaced all the parts that the skin will effect and voila...

Now days Google is everywhere...you know that and it scares you, right? Me too! Anyways facts are facts and Google's virtual (FREE!!!) products are increasing with exponential rates. Without even realizing it in daily bases I use more than 10 Google applications...You don't believe me? I 'll count it for you:

Here is a quick tip for Flash/Flex or Flash Builder or anything that uses ActionScript 3. If you are having a (fast) moving animated DisplayObjects that you want the user to be able to click, I suggest NOT using the MouseEvent.CLICK but MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN. MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN works a lot better and it fires faster than the MouseEvent.CLICK event.