Archive for the ‘Web’ Category
jQuery.getScript() does not cache
It occurred to me today that when using jQuery’s handy little .getScript method that each script request is appended by a timestamp appended to the querystring. This is great. A lot of the time this is exactly what you want as it ensures that no browser will ever serve up it’s own cache in preference [...]
Last.fm Loved Tracks RSS Feed
Update: October 2008
As of this month, last.fm have started providing an official RSS feed for loved tracks (Thanks Anil!). My homebrew feed, the original subject of this article, will be retired at some point in the near future in favour of the official feed.
The Official Feed
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/user/jamiethompson/lovedtracks.rss
My Original Homebrew Approach
Ever wondered why last.fm don’t provide an [...]
Publish / Subscribe With jQuery
With a view to writing a jQuery UI integrated with the offline functionality of Google Gears i’ve been toying with some code to poll for network connection status using jQuery.
The Network Detection Object
The basic premise is very simple. We create an instance of a network detection object which will poll a URL at regular intervals. [...]
Tips for Using JQuery with ASP.NET Ajax
Dave Ward has put together an excellent and extensive post on his experiences integrating jQuery with ASP.NET
There are the usual number of pitfalls you’d expect when integrating [insert widely-used microsoft technology here] with [insert useful open source technology here]
Want to consume a JSON Web Service with jQuery? Sounds simple. That’s kinda the point of JSON [...]
Microsoft SQL Server Vs MySQL
A collegaue of mine – a VB developer – sent me a link to this page on the Microsoft website which attempts to comapre MySQL to their own SQL Server by drawing some.. shall we say creative comparisons.
By no means is the article completely factually inaccurately. There are many valid points which no one would [...]
imagettfbbox() Could not find/open font
This evening I noticed a problem with the script which generates the image headings for this site. It had stopped working. I hadn’t noticed until now because the process caches all previously generated images and as such it hadn’t actually run for a while.
The error
imagettfbbox() [function.imagettfbbox]: Could not find/open font
The specified font file existed and [...]
The Semantic Web On The Horizon?
It’s all to easy to dismiss the concept of the semantic web as just another one of Tim Berners-Lee’s “look at me i invented the Internet don’t you know” attempts not fall into obscurity, but today I was pointed this morning in the direction of an open email from a developer working within the BBC [...]
Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide
This is not just an advert for some O’Reilly book. Adobe AIR for JavaScript developers provides an introduction to Adobe AIR for developers interested in building AIR applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It’s been licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
Which means you can go buy a copy right now from Amazon if [...]
Wordpress 2.5 Gallery Feature
Testing Wordpress Wordpress 2.5’s new gallery system. It seems to fit well inside my site template by default. So that’s good. I’d rather linked directly to the photo rather than the attachment page so that I can hook thickbox to popup each image directly on the page. There don’t appear to be any options for [...]
jQuery Google Analytics Tracking API Integration (ga.js)
Jason Huck’s gaTracker jQuery plugin allows for unobtrusive integration of the Google Analytics tracker into a page as well as attaching tracking events to each external link, mailto and download. It works seamlessly but it does however currently use the old ‘urchin.js’ which has been superceeded by Google’s new Tracking API (ga.js)
ga.js has all the [...]
