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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 »

Auto-activate widgets in WordPress MU August 15, 2009 6 Comments

I was recently involved in a project where it was required that each time you add a new blog on WordPress MU, that it automatically assigns a set of default widgets and activates all the plugins. Finding a plugin that activates all plugins on blog creation was easy, there's one out there called Plugin Commander and it's awesome - you can also mass... Read more »

WordPress 2.8 – Upgrade Gotchas June 18, 2009 3 Comments

I've recently had to upgrade several blogs from WordPress 2.7 to 2.8. Here are some plugins that caused me to rip chunks of my hair out. Wordpress Automatic Upgrade: I found it strange how it didn't tell me that I needed to upgrade to the latest version, instead I got the message from WordPress' built in notification. When I went into this ... Read more »

new Things(array(‘objective-c’, ‘macbook’, ‘slicehost’)); May 12, 2009 3 Comments

A lot of change has happened in these past few weeks: I moved in with my girlie friend, bought a new MacBook, started learning Objective-C for building iPhone apps and moved from Dreamhost to Slicehost. To be honest, I'm in love with Slicehost. Having my own VPS is like getting my very own pair of underwear, no more sharing with hundreds of ne... Read more »

Redesign & Notepad++ Theme! April 13, 2009 5 Comments

I figured it was time for a "fresh" and swurvy new look. I spent a lot of time making sure things were pixel perfect before I launched this - so if you find anything that looks a pixel off, please, send me hate mail. On a related note, if you liked my syntax colors used in my code blocks and you use Notepad++ then you should check out the theme I... Read more »

Outputting an SQL query log March 18, 2009 1 Comment

Outputting SQL information is incredibly valuable when you're trying to debug your app. If you've ever used CakePHP then you've seen the query output appear at the bottom of your page. I've whipped up a little class that allows you to: See the query outputted as a string See what file the query was called from See what line the query was... 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.