I’ve been doing some hefty MooTools development lately, and I ran into a odd ball error in that endeavor. I put it aside for a while, ignoring it while I worked on other code. Eventuallly, I had to face it though, so here are my remarks in that journey. First, the error in question is [...]
Lately, I have been working with the fancy HTML 5 canvas element. One of the errors that I encountered during development was this oddity: Uncaught Error: INDEX_SIZE_ERR: DOM Exception 1 After making sure every value was absolutely defined in the code and still getting the error, I was stumped. I asked on twitter what causes [...]
Firebug will scream and shout about Invalid Object Initialization if you mess just a little something up. Firebug does this a lot. It is an unhelpful error because Firebug will direct you to the first line of your object, not where the problem is. Firebug gave me this, more or less. That wasn’t helpful. (Why [...]
Mozilla offers a let in javascript 1.7. The let keyword isn’t support by other browsers yet so using it isn’t generally recomended but it nice to catch up on the latest javascript constructs. A Parallel First, a parallel. I’ve coded in Java the last couple of months because of school. During said time, I discovered [...]
Have you ever added a couple of console.log calls to your javascript, test it in Firefox, then go into Internet Explorer and see tons of mysterious errors popup? I sure have, I always forget about those console.logs that are interwoven in my code. While it isn’t hard to do a replace on them all, I [...]
Hey there. I’m trying to get this plugin into the Mootools Forge but I’ve been having a hard time getting it to work. So in the mean time, checkout the repository on github. GoodCarousel is a plugin made with Mootools 1.2.3. It is made to slide over to, not fade to, the next slide and [...]
I was just reading David Walsh’s post about Possessives. It was a very clever use of PHP. I remembered a helper method I wrote last year that was somewhat similar in use, another form of coding English. It was Pluralization. At first I just added s if the first argument was not 1 and that [...]
PasteBin, Pastie and of course, Gist. There are tons of pasting services. Lately however, we’ve started to ask more of our neighborly paste service, we need it to run and demonstrate our javascript, basically, we need a javascript playground. I have found two such playgrounds, they both looks great and work well. JSBin JSBin is [...]
GoodCorners is a tiny Mootools plugin that can apply the CSS3 border-radius to elements using a unified syntax so you can have beautiful rounded corners. Usage GoodCorners can be used in a couple different ways. Both parameters are optional. Omitting both will automatically round any elements with the gc class already on them. If you [...]
CakePHP’s $javascript helper is useful but it can be somewhat fickle. I wanted to throw my javascript into $scripts_for_layout so it’d be in the head of the page. That’s what codeBlock is supposed to do. It seems like you get a couple of usage options. You can write all your javascript as a string and pass [...]