Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

Programming Tips and Tricks

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Some helpful programming tips as we enter the week ready to roll out new code: JavaScript Scope - "Optimize" JavaScript code taking advantage of the fact a function can access all local variables in the scope of the caller. Perl - Use trailing if's and unless's especially at the end of ...

AJAX (web 2.0) updates

Friday, January 20th, 2006

I've been looking into additional AJAX related resources and stumbled across an interesting wiki dealing with Ruby on Rails. The site has some interesting demo links. The actual wiki is part of the script.aculo.us website which aims to be: easy-to-use, compatible and, ultimately, ...

SmoothWall Firewall

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

Smoothwall is now a member of my home network, in fact, it's now the first line of defense. I installed the SmoothWall Express 2.0 over the last week onto a machine I was using to serve music. I used the open source version of the software which has ...

Venkman, the javascript debugger

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

I'll admit it, I've fallen head over heels for Venkman. Sure the project page is outdated, sure Firefox 1.5 isn't officially supported -- but does that stop me from using it, hell no. Venkman does work for Firefox 1.5, just requires a little hack that can be found here. ...

Ajax Patterns, Ajax Testing

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Work has kept me very busy as we approach our January 1st deadline. I can say at this point in time that I am getting quite familiar with AJAX and the frameworks surrounding it. I am definitely interested in learning more about the framework aspect of it since this seems ...