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The dabbling of various web technologies by Jordan Boesch
last modified on Sunday, 29 August 2010 9:33PM

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  • 7shifts officially released!, published on Saturday, 28 August 2010 2:04PM
    I would like to announce that the project I’ve been working on for awhile has been released! It’s called 7shifts and it’s an application where part-time employees can check/manage their availability and schedules online. It’s free to sign up for a trial, so if you’re a company that employs part-time staff, this could make your [...]
    http://boedesign.com/?p=703
  • My top 3 custom WordPress functions, published on Saturday, 24 July 2010 5:08AM
    I’ve done quite a few sites in WordPress. Come to think of it, it’s pretty much all I do when it comes to throwing together a CMS-based site. Here are some really handy functions that I’ve written that I think would be handy for you other programming monkeys. 1. Calling get_bloginfo() from within the WYSIWYG [...]
    http://boedesign.com/?p=688
  • TaxiMe iPhone App Released!, published on Monday, 10 May 2010 2:40PM
    The wait is finally over. For those who use TaxiMe on their iPhone or iPod Touch – this is for you. As of Friday, May 7th, the TaxiMe iPhone app is now available! For those who aren’t familiar with TaxiMe, it’s an app that I had created a year ago that estimates your cab fare [...]
    http://boedesign.com/?p=678
  • Quick JavaScript Templating, published on Wednesday, 31 March 2010 4:32AM
    At some point, all JavaScript developers encounter a situation that involves spitting out a large chunk of HTML to the page. I’ve seen a lot of ways to do JavaScript templating, from storing it in the JavaScript file itself to having it returned to you from an ajax request. After reading various techniques on JavaScript [...]
    http://boedesign.com/?p=624
  • Using Delegate and Undelegate in jQuery 1.4.2, published on Friday, 05 March 2010 2:13PM
    View the article at http://www.learningjquery.com/2010/03/using-delegate-and-undelegate-in-jquery-1-4-2
    http://boedesign.com/?p=618
  • Hijacking JavaScript/jQuery methods, published on Saturday, 13 February 2010 5:13PM
    Some people often wonder: “Hey, when a user calls $(‘body’).css(‘background’, ‘something-awesome’); is there a way I can run some code before that happens?”. The answer is yes and it’s not very hard to do. If there is a name for this technique, I’m not aware of it so I’m just going to call it “hijacking”. [...]
    http://boedesign.com/?p=586
  • JavaScript: Configs for Different Environments, published on Friday, 22 January 2010 4:41AM
    When you’re developing a website, you typically have a development version of the site running locally (localhost), a staging version and a production version. Normally you would set up something that would automatically grab the necessary settings to use for that specific environment. Here’s what my CakePHP’s config/database.php file looks like (PHP4 unfortunately). You’ll notice [...]
    http://boedesign.com/?p=559
  • Keystrokes for jQuery, published on Wednesday, 30 December 2009 9:34PM
    Background First off, I hope everyone had fun over the holidays – I certainly did! With the release of jQuery 1.4 jQuery 1.4 on the horizon for early in the new year, I decided I wanted to try out some of its new functionality. I’ve been reading blogs of some of the jQuery core developers [...]
    http://boedesign.com/?p=493
  • Dissecting jQuery.noConflict, published on Monday, 07 December 2009 7:57AM
    Most jQuery users love it for its easy CSS selectors, DOM manipulation and slick effects. We don’t normally think about what happens behind the scenes when we call our favorite jQuery methods, we just naturally expect they work as desired. I’m going to start off my dissecting and explaining a relatively simple method called noConflict. [...]
    http://boedesign.com/?p=455
  • Serverside JavaScript Minifying, published on Wednesday, 02 December 2009 10:52AM
    JSMIN is a JavaScript minifying library that was founded by Douglas Crockford. Minifying is the act of taking your JavaScript code and stripping out unneeded white space and comments to reduce file size. Douglas Crockford offers a set of packages in common server side languages to accomplish this – whether it be PHP, Python or [...]
    http://boedesign.com/?p=429

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