Around mid-November I got an email from O’Reilly with a discount code on select e-books. One of them caught my interest, so I bought it and have been reading it over the last month. That book is JavaScript Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov. I am only midway through chapter 6, and I was going to wait until [...]
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JavaScript Cookie Manager Object
There are plenty of articles out there that detail how to work with browser cookies in JavaScript. This is not one of those. This article is about an object I have written to make working with cookies easier. Working on a problem with some third party software I came across the following code: function getCookie(name) [...]
Don’t Name Anchor Elements?
I have not used XHTML, regularly, in years. In fact, when I was writing all the markup for this site myself, I dropped XHTML back in 2004. Instead, I wrote strict compliant HTML 4.01. But nowadays I’m switching to HTML5 for all of my new work. It simplifies several things and adds some awesome new [...]
Announcing PWPTemplate
As you may, or may not, be aware, just before I started my position at CSU I started a web design and development company with a friend — Platypus Web Productions. Being the lead, and only, developer I set to work on creating a basis for the majority of work I would be doing for [...]
Objective-C Dot Notation
A few weeks ago O’Reilly was having an eBook sale where you could buy any of their eBooks for $10. Seeing as I had just ordered an iPad, I decided to buy their Learning iPhone Programming book. The little bit I know about developing for the iPhone has come from reading (most of) Cocoa Programming [...]
