Having worked with many a bloated PHP framework and content management system in the past, I decided to finally put together a framework I can trust – one that would be easy to navigate through to find things. I also didn’t want bloated files. Nothing’s worse than trawling through a PHP file that’s 3000 lines [...]
Backbone has a lot of cool extensions and plugins, but I was unable to find a simple extension that allowed you to implement an Interface into your Model, Collection, View, or Router.
In simple terms, an Interface is a template for your Class, a handy reference point where you [...]
Let’s say, for example, you are creating scroll behaviour using jQuery, and you want to allow the user to fling the scroller to the top if their mouse drag is powerful enough. Well I’ve created a little plugin to help you measure this force. It’s called jQuery mousefling, and adds the event (you guessed it) [...]
The arguments object, the local object within every JavaScript method that returns the passed in arguments, is not exactly what it appears to be. Actually, it looks more like an array than an object, since it has a length property, and is indexed like an array.
I was making a plugin recently, and had to iterate [...]
URL rewriting in Apache is a mysterious beast, probably because it involves a mysterious mistress, the regular expression. I needed a way to strip the question mark from URLs, allowing them to be user-friendly and SEO-friendly, and furthermore I wanted to rewrite to a subdirectory, allowing my site to have multiple versions to be able [...]
If you’ve got a lot of string to store in JavaScript, you don’t want it all on one line. Fortunately, you can store strings with line breaks. You simply have to escape the line break with a backslash.
var str = ‘This is my long string that needs to\ [...]
It is obvious why websites are dead. The internet has evolved and consolidated and organised itself into a few large platforms, these of course being Facebook, Google and Twitter – the new homes of reliable content. There are also new platforms emerging every day that arrange data in even more interesting ways. The website [...]
If you need to detect when a script has been loaded and jQuery’s getScript is not available, then just steal it from jQuery’s source. In my case, I actually needed to detect when jQuery itself was asynchronously loaded so I could begin manipulating the DOM with jQuery methods. The following is extracted from the source [...]
