Legacy IE only supports synthetic events of predefined types. It does however allow custom properties to be set on the event object, which allows us to simulate custom events. var ev = document.createEventObject(); ev.eventType = ‘mycustomevent’; ev.data = ‘some string, object or array can go here’; target.fireEvent(’ondataavailable’, ev);
Simple cross browser event handler function, that prevents the default action of the element (not following a link for example) function handler(ev) { var event = ev || window.Event, target = event.currentTarget || event.srcElement; // do somthing… ev.preventDefault ? ev.preventDefault() : ev.returnValue = false; }
Update URLs for the eclipse plugins I need. Subclipse: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.8.x JBoss Tools: http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/indigo/ JBoss VM Arguments: -Xms256m -Xmx512m
Example of fetching categories in Magento and filtering by a custom attribute: $categories = Mage::getModel(’catalog/category’)->getCollection(); $categories->addAttributeToSelect(’name’); $categories->addAttributeToFilter(’featured_category’, 1); foreach($categories as $key => $category) { echo $category->getName(); }
The following code add’s a format function to the Date objects prototype. It simulates the PHP date.format() function. Date.prototype.format = function(format) { var returnStr = ”; var replace = Date.replaceChars; for (var i = 0; i < format.length; i++) { var curChar = format.charAt(i); if (i – 1 >= 0 && format.charAt(i – 1) == [...]
A mirror of a wordpress installlation on my Macbook ran very sluggish. I was using OSX Lion. The fix was to optimise all the MySQL database tables for the installation! Simple!
When you tap a link, button, or other active element with mobile safari, a brief dark grey highlight appears indicating the element was tapped. The colour of the highlight can be customised, or disabled with the following CSS rule. -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0,0,0,0); // disable
An example of passing in the iteration value to a closure function using a self executing anonymous function. for (var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) { links[i].addEventListener(’click’, (function (n) { return function () { items[n].show(); // do something }; })(i)); }
To allow GIT to use SSL connections with a private certificte env GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true git clone https://www.example.com/private…
You can fully customise the style of checkboxes, radio buttons, select elements etc.. in webkit browsers. An example of a custom checkbox is show below. The key CSS rule is -webkit-appearance: none;. This then allows you style the element as a normal block element. Been webkit only, its safari and chrome browsers only at the [...]