I’ve been refactoring and refactoring some old code, and it’s kind of odd what short-cuts (or even time bombs), you’ll find in code, which apparently wasn’t supposed to live on for years.
In a now retired CMS system, we had an issue every new year, when some kind of bug would reset all “schedules” for upcoming [...]
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Build-in time bombs
Feb 9
In user interfaces, it’s sometimes the case, that you need to have dropdowns with content dynamically loaded from a database, and sure you can query the database and place the content in the HTML-source as regular markup, but you can also write a few lines of jQuery powered javascript, and provide the data from an [...]
In this mordern web 2.0 age, javascript includes are used more and more – and in some cases solutions often depend on included content from 3rd parties. While it is nice these 3rd parties may provide us with data (such as the latest tweets from twitter), it would be quite nice, if issues on their [...]
Like tables, jQuery also allows you to play around with all other tags. In a recent project, we wanted to change a fixed set of labels/texts into icons instead. For this challenge jQuery was used to build the new image tag, and for good measure, here is a small example of how you can build [...]
jQuery and tables
Jul 26
I’ve been playing with jQuery the recent weeks, and while it is reasonable simple to get started with and the jQuery documentation is pretty good, I thought I’d share a few snippets of jquery examples/code, which showcases a few simple practical uses for jquery.
First up – tables and jquery.
With jQuery you can add content to [...]
Most developers (and certainly professional shops) working with software- or webdevelopment has understood the ideas behind sourcecode version management – no matter if they choose to use cvs, subversion, git or any of the other fine systems available. How developers use these systems, can provide an easy insight into who is the dummy, the average [...]
So it been awhile since I sort of promised some tips on developing web applications fast. This post contains my five generic tips, which may apply to you (but then again – your mileage may vary). I’ve tried to abstract the advice and not stick to PHP development here, though it’s by far the world [...]
Your mileage may vary
Nov 9
It’s always fun to read articles with tips and tricks by other developers and see how they figure “best practices” are handled. Most developers do seem to thing they observations and practices are easily adopted by anyone, and should be accepted without any argumentation or reasoning behind the advice.
One of the nice examples of this, [...]
Code archeology
Oct 28
I’ve been spending quite some time the past days digging around in old code (3+ years old with no or very little changes). It’s quite fun noticing what efforts pay off and which doesn’t when you go back to make chance to old stuff. I’m sure my observations aren’t generally applicable. We’re web developers and [...]