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Category Archives: Code
We need your feeds!
• March 26, 2006 • Code, Projects, Software, Syndication, Technology • No comments
RSS and Atom feeds that aren’t either UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 have proven difficult to find, so I’m calling out to all of you. If you read or publish feeds that are in a character set other than these two, please post them here in the comments. We’ve just finished adding iconv support to SimplePie, and [...]
TinyMCE Issue
• March 13, 2006 • Code • No comments
I had a problem with TinyMCE initializing on a new page today. After about 10 seconds of Googling, I had my answer: If you’re using both libraries, TinyMCE needs to be loaded before Scriptaculous. Thought I’d pass this little nugget along from one front-end developer to another. In completely unrelated news, I really need to [...]
document.createTextNode and entities
• February 25, 2006 • Code • 2 comments
One problem that I’ve had when working with dynamic DOM nodes is the inability to use entities with document.createTextElement(). I’ve read suggestions about using utf-16/ucs-2 values, but how do you find them and how do you convert them? This led me on a journey to figure out how to handle this. I ended up digging [...]
Awesome view-source trick for JavaScript developers
• February 14, 2006 • Browsers, Code • 4 comments
Maybe I’m a little slow, but I’ve found an awesome little trick for people who use Firefox, and who need to dynamically add elements to the page via JavaScript. I’ve been doing a lot of Ajax development lately for an internal webapp where I need to dynamically add nodes to lists. In my source code, [...]
Draggable Lists
• September 12, 2005 • Browsers, Code, Software, Technology • 3 comments
Ryan shows a video of his own draggable list software that was heavily inspired by Basecamp, Backpack, and Ta-Da Lists.
Which Guru Are You?
• June 8, 2005 • Code, Just for Fun • No comments
Ryan finds out which “guru” he most closely relates to.
Sneak Peek
• March 31, 2005 • Code, Projects • 8 comments
It’s still in the works, but I thought I’d give you all a sneak peek of the new Tarzan Control Panel. Check it out: I’ve still got some things to implement, bugs to fix, design tweaks to make, and API to build, but overall the new 1.2 version of Tarzan is shaping up extemely well. [...]
Tarzan 1.1 Now Available!
• March 12, 2005 • Code, Projects, Technology • 2 comments
Tarzan 1.1 is now available. This release has so many new features, I can’t list them all. For that, you can read the release notes. There are also some minor changes for people upgrading from 1.0.x, so please look over the release notes anyways. Although there are zero API changes in this release, there are [...]
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