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• Feb

  18

  2009

  Be Careful parsing your URL string with Javascript

  …so I know you’ve looked around the net for a good method to parse URL variables with javascript, and I’m sure that you’ve found some elegant method that looks something like:
  function parseLocation() {
  var turl = window.location.search;
  ar = turl.split(’&’);
  var b = {};

  for (var i = 0; i < ar.length; i++) {
  var c = ar[i].split(’=');
  b[c[0]] = c[1];
  }
  return [...]

  posted in ajax, coding, hackery, javascript by chip

• Oct

  20

  2008

  using Javascript to refresh an image without a cache-busting parameter

  …say you’re using Javascript to reload an image periodically, say, every 60 seconds, and the image never refreshes. If you look for help across the webrent a car bulgaria (as undoubtedly you have, since you’re here now, right?) you’ll find a) A bunch of people telling you to tag on a url param that’s a [...]

  posted in coding, hackery, javascript by chip

• Aug

  06

  2008

  Dear Objective C

  It’s called “dot notation“, and it works really well. You should check it out.

  Share/Save

  posted in learning objective c, rant by chip

• Jul

  02

  2008

  Stupid IE6 and its iframe cookie idiocy needs a throat punch

  …so let’s say you have a site, that has two versions, a.throat-punch.com and b.throat-punch.com. And Apache uses a cookie to determine which version you should be viewing, and sends a 302 redirect if you’re on the wrong domain.
  Now let’s say you want to access a page on this site from an <iframe> from an external [...]

  posted in ajax, coding, rant by chip

• May

  16

  2008

  seriously, wordpress, WTF?

  It’s not bad enough that I had to turn off all non-anonymous commenting because of the flood of spam I was getting, but now I get another google-banning for people injecting code into my posts? If I had a nickel for every time this has happened, I’d have like 10 cents by now! Security this [...]

  posted in coding, php by chip

• Feb

  15

  2008

  Elegant little PHP JSON encoder

  update: Jay Williams has flushed this out to be a lot more useful. Check out his rendition here.
  …so I wrote (what I think is a) clever little function (well, two functions) to take a complex php variable and turn it into a json-ized string, ready to be passed back to javascript. It works on the [...]

  posted in ajax, coding, json, php by chip

• Jun

  22

  2007

  Dear Flash Web Developers

  I know you like to show off your flash-movie-making skills. I know it’s tons of fun to make images fade in and out, and to make text scroll across the screen. I know this kind of stuff makes your clients pop like 1,000 boners and fall over themselves to give you more work.
  But you know [...]

  posted in Open Letters, coding, flash, rant by chip