So I added my own FOAF link on my home page. (more…)
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Making Friendly Javascript Errors - Client and Server
The more I look at my code I wrote in my earlier posts about the unknown _popupControl() function and the Javascript Error Handler, I see opportunities to leverage these errors into useful user interactions. (more…)
Using Google Analytics Asynchronously
I came across the following link on google’s code pages: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTracking.html (more…)
document.URL vs document.location.href
When reviewing some javascript security ideas, I came across the document.URL property. Turns out that my normal way of retrieving the location (document.location.href) is both a getter and a setter. The document.URL is just a getter. (more…)
Protect Your Image from Download
I came across a great idea dealing with protecting image downloads from the site. Now, this is not fool-proof. There are lots of other ways to download the image, but this may stop the casual downloader. Nope, its not disabling the right click or using java. It requires one single transparent gif. Let’s see how. (more…)
Javascript Snow Fall with buildup
Mr. Skowron (his business) was working on a flash animation for a client that had a snow fall. What really irked me about the end result, was two things. (more…)
Auto Failover for CDN based Javascript
Using my javascript error reporter code helps me get a better understanding of what my clients are experiencing when visiting my website. One thing I did notice was the failures from time to time of Google’s CDN based jQuery. (more…)
Block and Allow IP with iptables - simple script
As most developers are lazy, I’m a huge fan of scripts. I’ve found myself lately having to add entries to iptables to block a single IP or a small subnet, so I made a quick script to make the job easier on myself. (more…)
Printing a small segment of the page using JQuery
Using Yahoo’s Grid Tools, I created a pretty decent page layout. After all this was complete, I needed to generate a printable version of only a portion of the site. This was a particular set of instructions. I decided to tackle this with JQuery. (more…)
How I fixed the Javascript error with wp-codebox
I’ve been using the wp-codebox plugin for a while… and an upgrade came today! (more…)