Tag: development

My first Scout plugin!

I'm digging Scout so far, and it has almost all the plugins I would want already in their plugin directory. However, I did want to add in a Solr "healthcheck", since we've noticed…

United States of Google

Just saw this code on a site, I forgot this good stuff existed. I've seen it before in a post about Google's web fonts and using their jsapi to load the webfont.js file, and I…

True "Incognito" mode for Google chrome

I hate Windows. I do. This is a very hacky, no-garbage-collection, but still "working good enough" script. At the advice of #chromium on freenode, when asked about cookie sharing…

Pidoco - rapid prototyping/wireframing - why didn't I find this before?

A while ago, I was looking for tools to do prototyping/wireframing so I could explain my ideas a bit better than some crappy sketched out "wireframes" on paper. For some reason…

How would I change PHP?

Anyone who knows me knows I am a PHP fanboy. I use PHP for everything - web applications, web scraping, batch scripting, if there is an itch that software can fix, I try to…

Little-known URI shorthand - the "network-path" reference

I've seen this before, and it was mentioned earlier today at OSCON, but I never knew if it was a browser behavior or a standard. Looks like I got it with some help from IRC. Say…

PHP-FPM and nginx upstart scripts

Upstart is becoming the de-facto standard for everything in Ubuntu, and I do enjoy it's process management and re-spawning capabilities. (Actually, before PHP-FPM I used to use…

Getting Capistrano's SSH method to work behind a SOCKS proxy

At work we've got a bit of an annoying proxy setup. It does allow outbound SSH through a SOCKS 5 proxy (no auth), and after a while of Googling (I don't know Capistrano nor Ruby…

Really?

Google's usually pretty good about pushing standards and best practices but this is just lame. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=41467 From my understanding, if…

The UK's got it right - government-collected data access for free

"A new website, data.gov.uk, will offer reams of public sector data, ranging from traffic statistics to crime figures, for private or commercial use. The target is to kickstart a…

I hate wikis

I dislike wikis. At work we were using them. Now we're changing from wikis to an article management system. The idea on paper sounded great, but I'm realizing the pitfalls about…

Large file uploads over HTTP - the final solution (I think)

Problem statement: HTTP sucks for file uploads. You know it. I know it. The problems? No resuming POST multipart/form-data bloats the size of the file due to encoding Slow…

Google AppEngine - 1) develop site, 2) ?? [get bought by Google], 3) profit

A co-worker and I were discussing the lack of languages in Google's AppEngine program. I'd want PHP, he'd probably prefer .NET... there seems to be a lot of "please add XYZ!" in…

Disappearing text in IE6 and "dead" JavaScript links

We discovered a couple little annoyances with IE6, and I thought it would be useful to publish their workarounds. Issue #1: Random text would "disappear" on a page. It actually…

Handling events pre-$(document).ready() in jQuery

jQuery is the best thing since velcro. No doubt. However, there is one thing that I've stumbled across that other people seem to have wondered about too. jQuery's got this great…

jQuery Spy improvements

I've made a diff against spy 1.4 to make sure it will not allow multiple spy instances on the page with the same object ID. If .spy() is called again, the old timer will be…

jQuery's no-conflict mode: yet another reason why it's the best

It took me a bit to find out why jQuery (now bundled with WordPress) was not working as I expected inside of the WP admin area. The script was being called, but my code like…