Most cases where you find String.substr() in the wild are to check if a given string begins with a certain other string. Be it checking for a prefix or sorting out zipcodes that begin with certain numbers. And because code readability is a good thing (really, it is important), it would be nice to have
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A collapsible fieldset as dojo widget
Though many people would disagree, I for one like to use fieldsets to structure complex forms. Even better do I like fieldsets that are collapsible. As there is no such fieldset with dojo, I decided to write my own widget. While doing so, I learnt an interesting lesson… First, I wrote it pretty simple, inheriting
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Safari and window.open – How to do it
There is still some traffic coming in from people who are searching for how to deal with the safari popup blocker. So I thought it might be nice to also tell what you can do about it – as most people want solutions, not backgrounds… So, here you go: It’s pretty simple, really. What to
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dojox.analytics.Urchin for jQuery
Or: Still ending the ga.js wait… It has become quiet here the last weeks – due to an awesome trip to Italy. Returning home, I decided to put Google Analytics on this page. As I always hate waiting for the ga.js to load while visiting websites, I wanted a mechanism to delay the load of
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Static data handling in PHP
Every now and then I stumble upon PHP Code dealing with config files. Besides being happy that people use config files (uh, yes, it happens too often that people don’t…), I am often unhappy with how they’re dealing with config files. You can find the ugliest things out there, like arrays in .php files (my
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