Last year I needed a function to change CSS rules for one of my projects, so I put together a function called changeCSS() which allowed me to change, add or delete a CSS rule. I looked at various resources and the work was heavily influenced by code from David Flanagan and Shawn Olson. […]
Category Archives: Web Development
Another Curry Function for more Closure Options
October 28, 2007 – 4:21 pm
There are a lot of curry functions examples out there so I decided I’d share mine as well. The code was inspired by a blog posting from Dustin Diaz who was in turn inspired by one from Dan Webb. Those posts can probably do an overall better job of explaining currying […]
Yet another jQuery convert
September 5, 2007 – 9:45 pm
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I have been going through a process of reviewing various JavaScript libraries and frameworks. So yesterday I started looking at jQuery. And I have to admit what I saw was impressive. Not that it does anything that other libraries can’t do. But rather that the […]
Chat with Chatkik
August 30, 2007 – 1:38 am
I’ve been working recently with chatkik.com to develop an Ajax chat system. Although there is still a lot of work to do, I received permission to put the current dev version up on my blog for some pre-alpha testing. I know chat isn’t much fun without more than one person in the channel, […]
Debugging Ajax PHP with Logging and Firebug
June 3, 2007 – 8:15 am
I was recently trying to debug some Ajax PHP code. I was logging but it was cumbersome trying to look at both the php log file and Javascript logging in Firebug so I started going some searching. I found post from Mika Tuupola about Debugging PHP With Firebug, so I took his advice […]
Enumerating Local Variables in JavaScript
May 7, 2007 – 10:00 am
One day I was trying to do some debugging in browsers other than FireFox (FireBug rocks and is highly recommended). I decided it would be useful if I could enumerate local variables such that I could quickly find and display their values in an alert box. Unfortunately, there didn’t appear to be any […]
Example of adding client side filtering to an XML File
May 1, 2007 – 1:21 pm
The question recently came up about possible ways to filter data in a browser client where the source was an XML file. There are, of course, many different ways this could be done, but I decided to use XSL to create a list of the data in XHTML and to include JavaScript in the […]
Conditional Test for IE6 in CSS
April 19, 2007 – 10:35 am
I recently had a problem where I had to make a tweak in the CSS just for IE6. I couldn’t find any way to conditionally compile in the .css standalone file and I didn’t want to create a whole new .css file just for IE6 and conditionally compile it in. Anyway, in IE6 […]
Book Reviews
April 17, 2007 – 11:44 pm
I’ve decided to do a few book reviews for some of the books I’ve read recently. Since the most recent is Prototype & Scriptaculous in Action I figured I’d do that review first.
Simple Ajax Example
April 16, 2007 – 10:21 pm
Here is an Ajax example that was put together to demonstrate how Ajax can be used to validate something without refreshing the page. The link is here.