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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 [...]

Posting To Notifo With Python

Just after getting to work this morning I discovered an iPhone app and web service named Prowl. It provides a means for sending arbitrary push notifications to your iPhone. This is something I had on my todo list to design and write very soon, so I was very excited to find it. The only downside, [...]