A few days ago someone asked me how I would go about determining the unicode escape sequence for an arbitrary character. Of course, I went to Google Chrome’s web console and showed them how it can be done by using Read more…
Just as at many other companies, at Monetate we use Github as our source control system. Recently I decided to dedicate some time to create some helpful aliases to save some time. Assuming that you create new branches all based Read more…
At times you may need to use a polling function in order to wait for an event before the rest of your code can fire. One way we can solve this is with a polling function: Let’s say that you Read more…
Recently I had to develop a solution which involved changing the HREF attributes of links in the navigation bar of a site. This had to be done on the JavaScript side because at my company we are the 3rd-party JavaScript Read more…
One of the things that I often end up doing is using JavaScript’s replace function with a regular expression and a callback function. Recently, though, I have been thinking about redeveloping an HTML application (HTA) that I made a long Read more…
I use to always work on Windows and at times it seemed that certain files just didn’t want to go to the recycling bin. For that reason I would always write a JScript which had the following code: When a Read more…
NEW NEW Excel to Text Converter The Excel to Text Converter is a newer version of the Batch Excel To CSV Converter Application which works on Windows & Mac. Check out the article here to find out more. I have Read more…
At times you may want to get the size of the window. I don’t remember where I came across the original code, but I modified it and created the following function: As far as I can tell, this should work Read more…
Well before I had this site, I created a program which needed to order file names such as the following: Unfortunately, if you just use the normal {Array}.sort() without a callback function, the following will be the resulting order of Read more…
So, after doing even more research on providing prototypal functions access to private data, I came across this article on the Safe Factory Pattern. It is actually similar to my Accessor Verification pattern that I recommended here on Monday. The Read more…