Archive for the tag 'jquery'

Sep 22 2008

Using YUI compressor in a web project

Last year, I moved our small programming department from using JDeveloper and editing shared files directly on a network drive to using Netbeans 6.x and a proper version control system (Subversion).

After the initial learning curve, this has all been going…

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Sep 11 2008

Creating an admissions dashboard

This entry pertains to work done in the context of my employment. Please remember, however, that any opinions expressed on this blog do not necessarily reflect those of my employer or co-workers.

The Problem

Admissions needed help. They had been moved…

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Jun 16 2008

Blockquote metadata extractor 1.2

My little blockquote title|cite extractor for jQuery has been updated just slightly when it appeared to have funny results. It may have to do with the element.attr() changes introduced in jQuery 1.2.6.

It’s not a particularly disastrous bug or anything, but I’ve altered…

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Apr 17 2008

Adventures in California

I write today safely back in the Midwest after spending about 5 days in Anaheim, California (for which see my previous post). My purpose in California was the annual Sungard Summit, a very large gathering of customers of Sungard Higher…

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Jan 15 2008

SunSpider

Last December, I read Jeff Atwood’s write-up about SunSpider, a new Javascript benchmark created by the makers of WebKit/KHTML.

The world of Javascript is an interesting one right now; it seems like most major browsers are on the eve of a…

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Dec 08 2007

Various and sundry technology stuff pertaining to work

I don’t usually talk about work on this blog, simply because I’ve read enough horror stories about blogging work matters to know how badly it ends. Granted, if I were to blog about my job, it would mostly consist of…

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Nov 13 2007

A Modest Construct v2.0: Hooloovoo

Last week, I finally went live with a new design that I’ve been toying with for this blog. It sort of grew organically out of a few failures that I’d played with on and off for the last few months.…

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Nov 05 2007

Blockquote Metadata Extraction - now in plugin form

Two months ago, I wrote about using the jQuery library to extract citation information from blockquotes.

Just for grins, I’ve worked that snippet of code up into a genuine jQuery plugin. Go ahead and visit the page for more information. Or, download it…

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Nov 05 2007

Blockquote Metadata Extractor

Changelog:

  • 1.2 (16 June 2008)
    • Changed case handling to check for string lengths instead of nulls
  • 1.1 (6 November 2007)
    • Fix IE issue pertaining to protected variable (’class’ to ‘className’)
  • 1.0 (5 November 2007)
    • First published as…

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