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Article: An Overview of Mobile Debugging Techniques – Part One
Just a quick note that an article I wrote for DZone, An Overview of Mobile Debugging Techniques – Part One, is now live. I wrote this a few months ago but it finally went live today. I'll be doing a...
View ArticleClick (like crazy) for Toys for Tots
Just a quick note for those of you with a bit of OCD. Visit http://santashelper.dvs.com/ and play the little gift building game for a few minutes. Get up to 5000 gifts and the company behind the game...
View ArticleQuick Sample: Appending URL data to a Form post with JavaScript
This is a quick sample based on a request from a reader. They have a form that is loaded with a dynamic value in the query string. They were curious if there was a simple way to pass along the query...
View ArticleThis works... and it freaks me out
I just ran across a template that had an interesting typo. Here is an example. component { { public function hello() { return "Hello"; } } } See it? The function is surrounded by an extra pair of...
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TryCF.com
Just passing along this note about a cool new site by Abram Adams called TryCF.com. TryCF.com is an online, interactive ColdFusion tutorial. You can actually write ColdFusion code in the browser and...
View ArticlejQuery UI Video Course
Just a quick note to let y'all know about a new video course available for jQuery UI. Ben Fhala released a set of videos for Packt covering jQuery UI. I had the pleasure of doing a tech review on the...
View ArticleMeanwhile, over in IndexedDB land...
Ok, this probably won't interest anyone but me, but I thought it was kind of interesting and I thought I'd share. On Wednesday, Firefox 26 was released, and one of the cooler things they did was to...
View ArticleArticle: Moving to Static and Keeping Your Toys
I'm very proud to announce that my first article for flippin' awesome has just gone live. If you haven't been reading flippin' awesome then you are really missing out. It was created by my archenemy,...
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New Brackets Extension - Canalyzer!
Over the past few days I've worked on a little experiment for Brackets that I wanted to share with folks. I'm not sure this is a good idea. Or a practical one for that matter. But that hasn't stopped...
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Using the autodivider feature in jQuery Mobile
A few days ago a reader asked me an interesting question. He wanted to create a list of dates in jQuery Mobile and group them by date. Turns out, this is fairly easy using the Autodividers feature of...
View ArticleHelp me help you...
I've run this blog for a little over ten years now, and from time to time I ask my readers to give me feedback about the site. I don't necessarily always follow that feedback, I write about what...
View ArticleQuick note about HTML5 Form validity and browser differences
I was working with a reader on my blog post on HTML5 form validation when we ran into an interesting problem with different browsers. The reader was using a query selector to get a list of all invalid...
View ArticleDev Tools Tip - Preserving network logs on leaving a page
Imagine you have some code that is being fired right before, or during, a click that leads you to another page. If you use the console than you are in luck. Both Chrome and Firefox have options to...
View ArticleBrackets Sprint 35 Released
Just a short note to let folks know that Brackets has released yet another update - Sprint 35. This was a shorter sprint due to the holidays so the list of updated features isn't long, but there are...
View ArticleSunday OT: The Last of Us
I've had a PS3 now for... I think almost two years. In that time though I don't think I've played one complete game. It's not that I disliked the PS3, but the games I cared for were on XBox as well...
View ArticleA PhoneGap Discussion around files, API calls, and security
Pardon the somewhat opaque title, but I received an interesting email a few days ago that I wanted to discuss on the blog. It is one of those interesting emails that defies having a simple explanation...
View ArticleArticle: Working with IndexedDB - Part 3
The final part of my series on IndexedDB was just published on NetTuts: Working with IndexedDB - Part 3. If you haven't yet, be sure to read part one and part two.
View ArticleTop Ten Entries for 2013
These types of blog entries (best of year X) are admittedly kind of lame, but I was curious myself to see what my top entries were over the past year. So without further ado, here are my top entries...
View ArticleMy 2013 Reading List
This is the year I finally stopped using Bagcheck, which is a good thing since it died earlier this year. I switched over to Goodreads.com, which is OK, but frankly, I'm not terribly interested in the...
View ArticleMy personal little JavaScript WTF
There are presentations and even a website dedicated to JavaScript oddities. I'm sure this one I ran into has been discussed before, but it certainly surprised me. I wrote a little function that I...
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