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7shifts officially released! August 28, 2010 2 Comments

I would like to announce that the project I've been working on for awhile has been released! It's called 7shifts and it's an application where part-time employees can check/manage their availability and schedules online. It's free to sign up for a trial, so if you're a company that employs part-time staff, this could make your life a whole lot... Read more »

My top 3 custom WordPress functions July 24, 2010 0 Comments

I've done quite a few sites in WordPress. Come to think of it, it's pretty much all I do when it comes to throwing together a CMS-based site. Here are some really handy functions that I've written that I think would be handy for you other programming monkeys. 1. Calling get_bloginfo() from within the WYSIWYG Moving a WP site to another doma... Read more »

TaxiMe iPhone App Released! May 10, 2010 0 Comments

The wait is finally over. For those who use TaxiMe on their iPhone or iPod Touch - this is for you. As of Friday, May 7th, the TaxiMe iPhone app is now available! For those who aren't familiar with TaxiMe, it's an app that I had created a year ago that estimates your cab fare for various cities across Canada and the US. The iPhone app comes... Read more »

Quick JavaScript Templating March 30, 2010 1 Comment

At some point, all JavaScript developers encounter a situation that involves spitting out a large chunk of HTML to the page. I've seen a lot of ways to do JavaScript templating, from storing it in the JavaScript file itself to having it returned to you from an ajax request. After reading various techniques on JavaScript templating, I decided t... Read more »

Using Delegate and Undelegate in jQuery 1.4.2 March 5, 2010 0 Comments

View the article at http://www.learningjquery.com/2010/03/using-delegate-and-undelegate-in-jquery-1-4-2 Read more »

Hijacking JavaScript/jQuery methods February 13, 2010 3 Comments

Some people often wonder: "Hey, when a user calls $('body').css('background', 'something-awesome'); is there a way I can run some code before that happens?". The answer is yes and it's not very hard to do. If there is a name for this technique, I'm not aware of it so I'm just going to call it "hijacking". UPDATE: I have an expanded version of ... Read more »

JavaScript: Configs for Different Environments January 21, 2010 0 Comments

When you're developing a website, you typically have a development version of the site running locally (localhost), a staging version and a production version. Normally you would set up something that would automatically grab the necessary settings to use for that specific environment. Here's what my CakePHP's config/database.php file looks lik... Read more »

Dissecting jQuery.noConflict December 7, 2009 1 Comment

Most jQuery users love it for its easy CSS selectors, DOM manipulation and slick effects. We don't normally think about what happens behind the scenes when we call our favorite jQuery methods, we just naturally expect they work as desired. I'm going to start off my dissecting and explaining a relatively simple method called noConflict. If you ... Read more »

Serverside JavaScript Minifying December 2, 2009 1 Comment

JSMIN is a JavaScript minifying library that was founded by Douglas Crockford. Minifying is the act of taking your JavaScript code and stripping out unneeded white space and comments to reduce file size. Douglas Crockford offers a set of packages in common server side languages to accomplish this - whether it be PHP, Python or Java. It's importa... Read more »

yayQuery – A jQuery Podcast November 20, 2009 0 Comments

yayQuery is a jQuery podcast that cleverly starts at episode 0, they discuss a whole lot about javascript tools, plugins, anti-patterns and performance. It's a jQuery podcast of 4 solid front-end developers: Paul Irish, Rebecca Murphey, Alex Sexton and Adam J. Sontag. You can visit the website to watch episodes or follow them on twitter. Read more »

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Hi interwebs! My name is Jordan Boesch and I like to dabble in various web technologies. My dabbling time usually consists of jQuery, WordPress and baking with CakePHP.