Since 2009 has come to a close, I’d like to reflect on some of the cool stuff I’ve been able to work on over the past year. Read the rest of this entry »
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jQuery IP address plugin
On December - 30 - 2009
It’s pretty tough to handle IP addresses in HTML forms. Sure, you can do have 4 separate inputs and have users tab between them. You could setup one input and validate it on the server side. You could even use a tool like Masked Input to force users to match a specific format.
But all of those solutions fall short in one way or another. Read the rest of this entry »
How to build a Google Chrome extension in 15 minutes
On December - 8 - 2009
Google Chrome’s extension gallery opened December 8th and the race to create extensions is on.
I browsed through the gallery, looking for anything that might be useful to me and my normal browsing experience. I found a couple good ones: Google Alerter, RSS Subscription Extension and Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer (by Google).
I searched for a Facebook ad blocker, but the one I found only blocked profile ads – not very useful. So I tried writing my own and found that it was much simpler than I expected. Read the rest of this entry »
jQuery undo plugin
On March - 9 - 2009
I got a crazy idea when I was working with some AJAX interfaces – a quick and painless jQuery undo plugin.
What does that mean? I’m not entirely sure. Read the rest of this entry »
jQuery zoom event plugin
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
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
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');
};
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'
alert(makeSQLDatePretty(sqlDate)); // should alert '12/2/2008'
Crazy Europeans may want to change the replace regex with ‘$3/$2/$1′.
Smart, unobtrusive AJAX form submission with jQuery
On September - 22 - 2008
A former coworker was telling me recently about MooTools and how the AJAX functions are so easy to use. He sent me the following example:
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Iterating through objects, the easy way
On May - 8 - 2008
Objects in any ECMAScript language (Javascript, Actionscript, Jscript, etc) are very powerful for – among other things – storing data. However, getting some information out of these objects can be a hassle sometimes.
I ran into this issue recently and wrote some cool little handlers for objects. The following methods can be used to iterate through an array manually. I wrote them for Actionscript, but they certainly work for Javascript – although I’d suggest one small modification (shown later). Read the rest of this entry »
Image onerror magic
On March - 26 - 2008
HTML has a little-known event handler for <img> and <body> tags. I’m going to focus on <img> tags and how you can use this to clean up some 404s. Read the rest of this entry »