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The Agony of Unicode (and backing up mySQL)

All I wanted to do was back up the Young Israel databases, some way more amenable to automation than phpMyAdmin. There are lots of PHP-based solutions on the web, but all seem based on mysqldump. I implemented one and found myself faced with an eyeful of אריאל מאיר יעקב בן דוד אברהם where the Hebrew [...]
2009 02 10 Danny PHP Comments (1)

Upgrading to jQuery UI 1.6

I've updated my widgets tutorials to use jQuery UI 1.6, pulling the rc5 release off the svn site and turning them into pages rather than posts, since they seem to be so popular. See the widget tutorial and the extending widgets page. Now all I need is for the UI team to officially release 1.6 [...]
2009 01 29 Danny jQuery Comments (0)

jQuery CSS parser

Updated 2011-02-28; minor bug fix. Thanks, brian! Every time I create or use a jQuery plugin, I realize that the assigning of behaviors to elements on the page is a design decision, not a programming one, and one that should be made by the guy in charge of the CSS, not the guy in charge [...]
2009 01 16 Danny jQuery Comments (34)

Changes

Switched themes to Barthelme; very simple and elegant. Removed the Chili code highlighting line-numbering, which only worked intermittently, tended to get lost in the margins of the <pre> elements, and didn't add much.
2008 10 23 Danny Comments (0)

Testing demo insertion

I added some potentially dangerous code to automatically turn code examples (things in <code> elements with class demo into actual HTML or javascript that are added to the post. The javascript part works; I used it in the last post; here's testing the HTML insertion: <div style="background: purple; margin: 2px">This is a test</div> And more [...]
2008 08 14 Danny jQuery Comments (1)

Testing Chili

I like the idea of syntax coloring, so let's see if Chili works: alert('Hello, world'); and another: <div>Hello, <em>world</em></div> I'm trying to be as HTML5-compliant as possible, at least in the sense of using their standards rather than making up my own, so the Chili setup I'm using is: $.extend(ChiliBook, { automatic: false, codeLanguage: function(el){ [...]
2008 08 10 Danny jQuery Comments (1)

Formatting in Internet Explorer

I just looked at the blog in IE, and it looks like my <pre> elements mess everything up. They have the CSS set as scroll: auto, but IE doesn't care. Honestly, at this point, I don't care either. This blog is for me to document my thoughts on creating the Young Israel website and anyone [...]
2008 08 03 Danny Comments (0)

A jQuery WordPress plugin

The Using Javascript page in the Codex says to include common javascript files in your header.php file, but that means re-writing it whenever you change themes. I created a simple plugin that includes jQuery and ui.jquery on each page; it's <?php /* Plugin Name: jQuery Plugin URI: http://bililite.nfshost.com/blog/ Description: Includes the jQuery javascript framework (and [...]
2008 08 03 Danny jQuery Comments (0)

Organizing the Shiur Archives

I was trying to figure out how to organize the shiurim in a way that allowed for "AND" filters; something like author=shulman&tag=audio&tanach. Regular expressions won't work; but PHP allows you to use [] after a name and it automatically creates an array, so author=shulman&tag[]=audio&tag[]=tanach works (tag=audio&tag=tanach just overwrites the first tag). The archive filter is [...]
2008 08 03 Danny Comments (0)

The new Young Israel site

It’s finally live: the redesigned Young Israel site. So far, the feedback has been all positive, and I figured I’d have more free time once it was done. But nooooooo: I’m going to have to reorganize the shiur archives; with Rabbi Shulman adding 2+ a week, it’s going to add up fast. I like the [...]

2007 12 08 Danny Comments (2)