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PHP – XML To JSON Proxy
Today I was looking for a way to easily pull in RSS feed data from Apple Trailers onto my site via AJAX. At first I was thinking about using jQuery to do it but then I got thinking about how Read more…
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JavaScript – Equality & Strict Equality of null & undefined
One thing I have been doing for quite a while is using equality to (==) undefined or null to check if something is equal to one of those two values. Unfortunately, if your JS code needs to pass a linter, Read more…
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Chrome – Array.prototype.slice(…) Difference
At first I thought this was an infinite loop bug issue. After that, I thought it was just simply a bug. Now, after a co-worker (Geoff) pointed me to the JavaScript specs, I see that Chrome implemented this correctly and Read more…
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Python – List Comprehension of Updated Dictionaries
First of all, i’m sure that the title is a bit confusing, but I couldn’t think of a good way to state in a few words the scope of a solution I was looking for today. Basically, I had a Read more…
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JavaScript Snippet – Simple Stack Trace In Chrome
Often times in JS it is necessary to trace through someone else’s code (or your own š ) to determine the root of a problem. Many times I have found that knowing how a function was called in the first Read more…
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Excel – Multi-column VLookup
When analyzing data in Excel at times it is necessary to pull data from another data source based on more than one column. In this case you can use the MATCH function in an array formula. Just so you understand Read more…
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JavaScript – Creating Classes
As many people know, JavaScript doesn’t really have classes but you can mimic some of their behavior with the prototypal setup available in JavaScript. Still, a lot of times it is just easier when you have a function that does Read more…
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JavaScript Snippet – Undo Camel Case
Probably due to it being so late, I was looking for code to uncamelize (undo camel-casing) any string. I came across what claimed to be a solution in PHP but unfortunately did nothing but lowercased my string. Therefore I decided Read more…
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PHP – Foreach By Reference
Today I was writing some code in which I wanted to modify the values of an array within a for-loop. The obvious solution would be to use the key to modify the value but there is actually another way of Read more…
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JavaScript – Getting All Text Nodes
I have been working on something I am calling JS-Proofs (or jPaq Proofs). While working on the menu I was faced with the annoying issue of either not having whitespaces between my elements in the markup or removing them some Read more…