Technology Generalist
I was putting together an upload form today that uploads to a file to PHP. On submit, the $_FILES var was empty and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out what was going on.
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Recently, I’ve started looking for different tech news sources (in companionship to slashdot). Mainly because I wanted to be more thorough about what I find for tech news. I want to be ahead of the curve. I realize that takes a lot of work and a lot of intel because there’s other devs doing the same thing. Not only that, but now that I’m a “small fish” — No one comes to me with new products they are developing. Rather, I have to scour the web myself (pros and cons). Continue reading
If you are into CSS check out this link on Ten CSS Tricks you may not know.
I’ve found out some cool things about firebug this last week that involved JS and the DOM. If you don’t know the extent of what firebug can do, you’ll be better off finding out..
I found a CSS tip today that was new to me. You can find it as the last item on this CSS Validation Advanced Tips page.
Incase the link ever changes. The tip is to use: element * [att] (p * [href]) to target an element with the specified attribute on it. Targeting any p element with the attribute ‘href’ on it. Pretty nifty.
I have been perusing javascript articles on keeping method scope and allowing a function from one object to call a function in another object and while keeping the ‘this’ binding intact. This has proven to be easier said that done.
During my research I found a share-worty article at http://www.robertsosinski.com/2009/04/28/binding-scope-in-javascript/
As for the image used as the thumbnail: I do what I can.
Ztype is a well done typing game that I stumbled across a couple weeks ago via Chrome Experiements. I wanted to see if something similar could be done with flanvas. The prototype can be seen at http://flanvas.com/development/ztype-remix/index.html
I’ve brushed off the dust of last years flanvas projects and I’m on it again. I’m ramping it up for use with a project I’m going to be helping on that will heavily benefit from something like flanvas.
I decided I’m going to make a class for the Flash TextField which lets you animate the garbage out of it. I’ve already got some simple animations for text fields but I want to get nuts. The biggest thing it will do is break text up from a chunk into individual characters which you can then freely animate using a tweener. It’s going to be fun.
I just put together a short article on how you can load files via javascript from another domain. This doesn’t seem to be anything new, but it hasn’t been pronounced to all webbies yet so I’m here helping to push it across. You can check out the Cross-domain XHR article here
