Stefan Gabos web developer extraordinaire
Nov
2014
Zebra_Database, version 2.8.5 now available
Here’s what’s new in 2.8.5: result sets can now also be cached in sessions users can now change resource paths, allowing users to move scripts and stylesheets to whatever locations; thanks to Joseph Spurrier column names for the select() method can now be given as an array (recommended) and will be automatically enclosed in grave […]
Nov
2014
Zebra_cURL, version 1.2.1 now available
Here’s what’s new in 1.2.1: fixed an issue that appeared since PHP 5.3.0 where, because of how htmlentities has changed since that version, the body of a fetched page would be an empty string the output would contain invalid code unit sequences within the given encoding (utf-8 in our case); fixed an issues in composer.json […]
Sep
2014
Zebra_Session, version 2.1.1 now available
Here’s what’s new in 2.1.1: this version makes use of a feature introduced in PHP 5.1.0 for the “regenerate_id” method; thanks to Fernando Sávio; this also means that now the library requires PHP 5.1.0+ to work Visit Zebra_Session‘s page
Jun
2014
Zebra_cURL, version 1.1.0 now available
Here’s what’s new in 1.1.0: fixed a bug where the “post” method was not working with callback functions added a workaround for PHP bug: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61141; thanks to Syed I.R custom arguments can now pe passed to the callback functions callback functions may now return FALSE instructing the library to not cache the respective request; this […]
May
2014
Zebra_DatePicker, version 1.8.9 now available
Here’s what’s new in 1.8.9: added a new “header_captions” property, useful for customizing captions in the datepicker’s header, for the 3 possible views: days, months, years; thanks to Lodewyk and Ram for suggesting; added a new “onOpen” event for executing callback functions when the date picker is shown; users can now always use the next/previous […]
Dec
2013
Zebra_Database, version 2.8.4 now available
Here’s what’s new in 2.8.4: added a new “memcache_key_prefix” property; this allows separate caching of the same queries by multiple instances of the libraries on the same memcache server, or the library handling multiple domains on the same memcache server; thanks to primeinc; fixed a bug with the insert_bulk method; thanks to Guillermo; Visit Zebra_Database‘s […]
Dec
2013
Zebra_Dialog, version 1.3.8 now available
Here’s what’s new in version 1.3.8: fixed a bug where setting the “type” attribute to FALSE would not remove the left padding of the dialog box; thanks to Laurent for reporting added “use strict” statement added integration with Grunt the library is now available as a Bower package Visit Zebra_Dialog‘s page
Dec
2013
Zebra_Pin, version 1.0 now available
Zebra_Pin is a lightweight (around 2KB minified) and adaptive (things work as expected when you manually resize the browser window) jQuery plugin for pinning elements to the page or to a container element, so that the element stays visible even if the user scrolls the page. This type of elements are also referred to as […]
Nov
2013
Zebra_DatePicker, version 1.8.7 now available
Here’s what’s new in 1.8.7: added a new “header_navigation” property allowing custom HTML for the next/previous months buttons; thanks to norlin; fixed a minor bug with paired date pickers; minor performance tweaks; Visit Zebra_Datepicker‘s page
Nov
2013
Zebra_Accordion, version 1.2.2 now available
Here’s what’s new in 1.2.2: added 2 new events – onBeforeClose and onBeforeOpen; thanks to paul for suggesting this a while ago; minor updates to keep JSHint happy Visit Zebra_Accordion‘s page
Nov
2013
Zebra_Dialog, version 1.3.7 now available
Here’s what’s new in version 1.3.7: added a new “flat” theme fixed a bug where custom buttons were showing up in reversed order; fixed a bug where, since the previous release, you’d have to explicitly return TRUE from a callback function attached to a custom button, in order for the dialog box to close; thanks […]
Nov
2013
Zebra_Tooltips, version 1.2.1 now available
Here’s what’s new in version 1.2.1: fixed a bug where the “show” and “hide” methods were not accepting a jQuery selector as per documentation, but a single element; thanks to Martin for reporting; fixed a bug with the “content” property, where its value was not used unless the “title” attribute was also set on the […]
Nov
2013
Zebra_Mptt, version 2.2.5 now available
Here’s what’s new in version 2.2.5: added a new update method, useful if you want to change a node’s name; Visit Zebra_Mptt‘s page
Oct
2013
Zebra_Tooltips, version 1.2.0 now available
Here’s what’s new in version 1.2.0: tooltip content can now also be set via the “zebra-tooltip” data attribute; tooltips are not shown anymore if the title or the data attribute is empty; all the callback functions now receive as second argument the tooltip element, allowing for on-the-fly customization; minor code tweaks as suggested by JSHint; […]
Oct
2013
Zebra_DatePicker, version 1.8.6 now available
Here’s what’s new in 1.8.6: added a new “strict” property which controls whether default values, in the input field the date picker is attached to, should be deleted if they are not valid according to “direction” and/or “disabled_dates”, and which is set to FALSE by default; previously the plugin was always removing such dates; thanks […]
Who am I
I am a 32 year old web developer working from Bucharest, Romania. I am coding since I was 14 and I am extremely passionate about it. For the server side of things I use PHP/MySQL while on the front-end I write valid HTML 5, nice CSS and lots of JavaScript code using jQuery.