Smuggling functions through json_encode
Callbacks! Every fancy jQuery plugin has them and they are almost always specified along with all the other parameters when the plugin is initialized.
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Short-circuit Evaluation in JavaScript (or, the Ternary Operator, in Binary)
Here's a peculiar-looking bit of JavaScript syntax that I've repeatedly come across in the wild:
Creating Custom Formatters with Display Suite
Here at EchoDitto, we've been making heavy use of the Display Suite module. It obliterates a lot of the more tedious theming issues we typically run into when building out a Drupal site, and for the most part, we love it.
Never touch your local /etc/hosts file in OS X again
In each of my posts on setting up a local development
Redirect all port 80 requests to port 8080
In my previous post, I walked through how to set up a local environment using Nginx running on port 8080 so as to avoid running anything as root or with sudo.
Video Thumbnails with Media and YouTube or Vimeo in Drupal 7
Today, one of the designers I work with asked me a pretty simple question about a Views-based list of videos. The listing displays thumbnails of video
EJS Views Helpers With Backbone-Rails
Backbone-Rails is a useful gem for setting up Backbone.js in your Rails 3.1 app by providing all the necessary javascript files & dependencies (easy future upgrades with bundler), as well as some generators to setup your MVC directory structure.
Node.js and NPM on CentOS
Update: This no longer appears to be necessary as of nodejs 0.8.0. It may have been fixed earlier but I noticed neither of these changes are necessary anymore.
Removing Behaviors Using a GMap Macro
I'm building some maps for a client using the [GMap module](http://drupal.org/project/gmap) and came across the following simple problem: using a GMap
Preventing empty CCK-based blocks from printing
Today I learned that if you have a Views-powered block that uses CCK fields; and the CCK fields are empty for all the returned rows; then Views doesn'
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