I’m a fan of jQuery because it promotes unobtrusive markup and functionality and has a wealth of plugins to take care of common web development/ajax functionality. Marc Grabanski offers some tips for working with it effectively. I’ll need to look at livequery in some apps I’ve put together. If you need to attach events to […]
I stumbled on this post over at the flickr developers blog while chatting with Jo about web applications designed and built for “the cloud”. An article earlier this week piqued my curiosity about message queues, and got me thinking about how they can be used to move processing tasks out of the way. I’d known
Nicholas has started sleeping through the night, as of last week, and while it hasn’t been every single night yet, its happened more often than not. I’m glad for Staci, since she’s not a night owl like me, staying up past 10 or 10:30 was harder on her. This also means I’ve found some time
Sandy sent me a link listing anti-patterns as applied to management practices. For those not up on the jargon, an anit-pattern is a bad practice that is repeated frequently. I first heard this term in terms of programming patterns and anti-patterns, but I’ve since heard it used in non-programming contexts. I can honestly say I’ve
Zed Shaw provides a very useful insight into what makes a project work. I’m posting this here a) so that I can refer to it again in the future and b) the hypothesis passes my "Yup-I’ve-been-there" test. This method is based on a simple revelation about how clients and projects can be divided generally into
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Don’t expect to find it here, but Laughine Meme posted the most comprehensive one I could find. You would think that with the introduction in 5.2 of the DateTime and DateTimeZone objects, that date math would be a lot easier in PHP. Unfortunately, the implementation isn’t as advanced as I’d expected, maybe a case of
After two summers during high school where I had the pleasure of working with Visual Basic and Access, you couldn’t pay me enough to program with an MS designed language again. And, even though I have a basic understanding of Java, very few interesting web sites use Java as their foundation. But apparently, the marketplace
Version 1.1 of my my preferred javascript library, jQuery, was released today. They have a great motto – “write less, do more” and as far as I can tell, they live up to it. The release notes claim speed improvements of 10-20x for selectors over those in 1.0.4. The release includes some interesting new features
Andres at Web 2.0 Technologies has a very informative post about how to use object oriented techniques to implement a robust event broadcasting and listening in javascript. Follow his advise an dmake your code more reusable. What do you want to invoke when the checkbox object changes state? If you’re programming it in a non-reusable
Two and a half years ago, when I first dove into web development, I wasn’t very familiar with regular expressions. They certainly didn’t look regular to me, looked more like someone’s keyboard exploded. Now, having figured out a thing or two about them, I came across the following lines: $pos = strpos ( $this->user->privs, ‘del’);