jQuery is picky about the JSON that is read from in HTML5 data elements. Of course, it’s not really jQuery that’s at fault, it’s simply that the JSON spec is a lot more strict than simple javascript. In javascript, I can define an object like this: Note the lack of quotes on the key names… Read more »
Posts By: Aaron
Community Calendar API
At work, we had a hackathon and developed some sample apps that make use of our new HoopaNow API. HooplaNow is a community calendar in Iowa’s Creative Corridor. These are still works in progress, but there is a Sinatra app called simply hooplanow_api_example for you Rubyists out there, and a wordpress plugin for those of… Read more »
Never Say WordPress When Selling a Web Design Project
Never Say WordPress When Selling a Web Design Project
CoffeeScript, Jade and Stylus syntax highlighting in Sublime Text 2
CoffeeScript, Jade and Stylus syntax highlighting in Sublime Text 2
New blog theme
It sometimes feels as if I change themes more often than I post. Anyway, I extend many thanks to 320press and bootswatch for the new look.
Learning git made me a better svn user
Before learning git, I rarely created branches in svn projects. Honestly, I don’t know why. It seemed like too much work, but really that was just because I didn’t do it. Now, whenever I start a new feature, I create a branch first. Sure, it creates a branch on the svn server that may or… Read more »
ActiveRecord: self.field vs field
TL;DR version:“self.field” is only necessary when you are assigning a new value to a field. It always confused me why it seemed like sometimes using the field name from the database failed to work in model methods that I wrote. When the method was simple, things would work fine, but then something would happen and… Read more »
MTV Follow-up fail
A while back, I wrote about wordpress as a framework, and how I was going to follow up in a few weeks with some thoughts on MTV, which is a project that wants to make wordpress even more framework-like. Well, “a while back” at this point is actually almost an entire year, and I have… Read more »
Dogs at computers
The lightning talk at 39:00 helps make programming a lot less scary for newbies.
Humble Bundle for Android 3
The Humble Bundle is awesome as always. What is there not to like about cross platform (including Linux) and DRM free games? Plus buying helps support worthy charities like EFF and Child’s Play.