Previously, I have implemented an iGoogle-like interface for a seperate project as proof of concept. This project allows a site to allow gadgets to be added and removed in a nice AJAX way add and remove tabs in a nice AJAX way allow users to rename tabs allow users to specify the number of columns (1,2 or 3) change the colour of the background, gadget title, gadget text The above pro... [More]

I have just managed to do a server-side integration of Google Friend Connect on raya. It took awhile to do this mainly because I realised that the deserialization mechanism has not been implemented properly. So in the end I did a quick custom javascript deserializer for JSON objects in pesta. Information on how to support Google Friend Connect can be found here. Basically, there are three ways yo... [More]

While developing the new UI for Raya, I noticed that gadgets were not displaying if they rendered in a hidden tab. The first thing I checked was jquery UI's Tab documentation (jquery UI 1.7.2). Lo and behold there was a short paragraph describing this issue and a solution was also given... phew.  The paragraph is duplicated here to save you time... Any component that requires some dimension... [More]