Some Interesting PHP Projects in the Works (not mine)…
The PHP world has been somewhat boring for me lately. That’s why I found it necessary to post about two PHP projects that recently caught my attention. I’m hoping to find some excuse to use them....
View ArticleGet HTML5 Data Attributes with jQuery
jQuery 1.4.4+ includes this already, using DOMElement.getAttribute(), but for prior versions you can bind an element to the getData event. This event is fired internally by jQuery.fn.data if you...
View ArticlejQuery Array Functions
I recently wrote some functions in the global jQuery namespace that add array utilities. The list is small right now (only 3) but I hope to grow them as I have time, and can optimize as well. They are...
View ArticleEnabling SSH Connections to a VirtualBox Guest OS
I felt the need to propagate to the interwebs a good resource I found today for setting up SSH to a guest OS using a host-only network:...
View ArticleIntroduction to Web Fonts
With the introduction of Web Fonts into the browser mainstream, designers have gained access to a large quantity of design techniques that had only been possible using image replacement. The CSS3 Web...
View Article5 Lo-Dash Functions for Fun & Profit
(Alliteration somewhat intended) The event-based and asynchronous architecture of JavaScript creates a number of common patterns in applications that are repetitive, difficult to test, and somewhat...
View ArticleA Look at Lo-Dash Utilities – Using _.result
In my previous post on Lo-Dash, I explored the usefulness of several functions that can help reduce or eliminate common programming patterns in JavaScript. With this post I’d like to start looking at...
View ArticleMore Lo-Dash Utilities – Using _.mixin
In my previous post on Lo-Dash utilities I covered how _.result can be used to accomplish both chaining and simple callbacks (without parameters) via single return. In this post I’d like to explore...
View ArticleExtending Existing Lo-Dash Functions
I recently wrote a post on how to extend Lo-Dash with new functions using _.mixin. The Lo-Dash docs have code samples that include adding new functions into their namespace, but what can you do to...
View ArticleIntroducing QUnit Data Providers
About two years ago at Synacor a couple of teams started using QUnit as our JavaScript unit testing library. It was well received, and more developers started contributing tests. As the test suite...
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