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Archive for December, 2008

jQuery zoom event plugin

Posted by Jared On December - 11 - 2008

I don’t normally write code that I’m not ready to use, but I made an exception for this jQuery plugin.  It doesn’t really do all that I wanted it to do, but it’s good enough for a release.
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The start of a jQuery zoom event handler

Posted by Jared On December - 11 - 2008

After much research and very little code, I’ve come up with a basic start to a jQuery zoom event handler.  Don’t laugh.  This is very basic, but it handles zoom events based on keyboard shortcuts and fires the handler.
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Simple date conversion from SQL to readable

Posted by Jared On December - 2 - 2008

I needed a simple date converter function from SQL dates (YYYY-MM-DD) to something readable (M/D/YYYY).  So I wrote this little function.  Maybe someone else will have some use for it.

var makeSQLDatePretty = function(d) {
  return d.replace(/([0-9]{4})-0?([0-9]{1,2})-0?([0-9]{1,2})/, '$2/$3/$1');
};

Pass in a SQL date and the function trims leading zeros and returns a reformatted date.

var sqlDate = '2008-12-02';
alert(makeSQLDatePretty(sqlDate)); // should alert '12/2/2008'

Crazy Europeans may want to change the replace regex with ‘$3/$2/$1′.