Today I saw a question about changing content without necessarily using JavaScript to do so. Recently I have had to do a little bit more with CSS and think of more solutions with JS. Thusly I came up with a somewhat elegant solution to replacing content on hover without JS: Read more…
Recently I have been involved in modifying websites with a module that allows for CSS and JS insertion. A bothersome issue that has arisen a few times is the fact that this tool doesn’t currently provide a way to remove the text nodes of just the targeted element. Fortunately, I Read more…
A few coworkers have asked me why I didn’t have Git setup on my Mac so that when I am in a repository it will show which branch. I finally set that up and did a little extra inside of my ~/.bash_profile. The following lines were added to get everything Read more…
I have been writing HTML, CSS, and JS for about 13 years now and I can say that I have not met any computer savvy person who honestly thinks IE6 is a good browser compared to the others. That being said, believe it or not, there is a site out Read more…
Many times I find myself writing code which involves finding a random number in a given range. Often times that number needs to be an integer. Since this is such a common task, I figured I would share a brief snippet of code with you all: The above function can Read more…
A few months ago I wrote a blog post about extensions to the Date.prototype. That post provided ways to add date parts and subtract date parts. Today’s post shows you how to use a generic Date.prototype.diff() function to find the difference between two dates and optionally return a string specifying Read more…
The first thing that I programmed on was a Casio fx-7400G PLUS (graphing calculator). Though very simple, it helped me get the basics down. One of the first programs that I made was one that would take a number and then draw a star with that many sides. Today, I Read more…
Recently, the IT department was under a bit of pressure to to eliminate a Trojan Virus which was replacing folders with applications that had folder icons and hiding the folders in such a way that they couldn’t be hidden by just going to the properties dialog box. Fortunately, one member Read more…
At times, integrating other technologies can be a very strenuous task. Yesterday I was trying to figure out a way to redirect to a page using POST variables and not GET variables. After scouring the web for a PHP solution, I decided to approach things differently and use JavaScript to Read more…
A while back I wrote this post about having classes with prototype functions that have access to private variables. To clarify this discussion, I have created this slideshow which briefly outlines how to accomplish writing JavaScript classes with private members which are accessible by prototype functions. In addition, the following Read more…