23
May 2011

JavaScript - Everything Acts Like An Object Except Null and Undefined

JavaScript Garden

Object Usage and Properties
Everything in JavaScript acts like an object, with the only two exceptions being null and undefined.

22
May 2011

20+ Useful CSS3 and HTML5 Frameworks, Tools and Templates

Full Story Here

  1. HTML5 Boilerplate
  2. 52framework – Supports almost anything
  3. G5 Framework – Good tools collection
  4. Perkins – Lighweight and LESS
  5. Sprites.js – Animation framework (HTML5 support, of course)
  6. Lime.js – Gaming framework
  7. HTML5 multimedia framework for WordPress
  8. Modernizr – HTML5 & CSS3 with fallbacks
  9. Select[ivizr] – CSS3 Selectors for IE

21
May 2011

Managing Cron Jobs In PHP

Let’s face it, having the ability to schedule tasks to run in the background is just great! From backing up an SQL database, fetching / sending emails to running clean up tasks, analyzing performance, or even grabbing RSS feeds, cron jobs are fantastic!
Although the syntax of scheduling a new job may seem daunting at first glance, it’s actually relatively simple to understand once you break it down. A cron job will always have five columns each of which represent a chronological ‘operator’ followed by the full path and command to execute:

27
Feb 2011

Forward Thinking Form Validation

"Form validation has been a finicky business since the web was born. First came the server-side validation error summary. Then we evolved to client-side validation to verify results inline. Now, we have the marching giant that is HTML5 and CSS3: HTML5’s forms chapter offers new input types and attributes that make validation constraints possible. CSS3’s basic UI module provides several pseudo-classes to help us style those validation states and change a field’s appearance based on the user’s actions.

18
Feb 2011

Converting from Subversion to Git

John Albin has written a solid guide on doing this.

Here are the steps:

  1. Download the git-svn-migrate scripts
  2. Create a list of Subversion repositories to convert
  3. Create a list of transformations for Subversion usernames to Git committers
  4. Convert the Subverion repositories into bare Git repositories
17
Feb 2011

D7 Theming with Zen

Features:

  • Well documented php and css files.
  • Lots of easy-to-access classes and ids for CSS developers.