Chomper Stomping | jQuery/JavaScript/CSS 3/HTML 5, Java/PHP/Python/ActionScript, Git, Chrome/Firefox Extensions, Wordpress/Game/iPhone App Development and other random techie tidbits I've collected

jQuery/JavaScript/CSS 3/HTML 5, Java/PHP/Python/ActionScript, Git, Chrome/Firefox Extensions, Wordpress/Game/iPhone App Development and other random techie tidbits I've collected

Douglas Crockford – JavaScript the Good Parts

Really good lecture on JavaScript, especially if you are new to the language from another language like Java.

Let the Cloud Wars Begin!!!

This is all going the same direction. They are all going to end up with unlimited storage for the same price point per year, so, the sooner one of them calls it and just offers that, the better that one will do. They need to just do that, get it out of the way, and [...]

dynode Batch Get Item

Working a lot with node.js, dynode and dynamoDB recently. Still trying to wrap my head around it all. Had a horrible time getting dynode.batchGetItem to work. Here is the error I was getting: { name: ‘AmazonError’, type: ‘ValidationException’, serviceName: ‘com.amazon.coral.validate’, message: ‘One or more parameter values were invalid: Mismatching attribute types between location and schema’, [...]

WP phpBB Bridge: Warning: mysql_set_charset() expects parameter 2 to be resource, boolean given

Warning: mysql_set_charset() expects parameter 2 to be resource, boolean given in wp-content/plugins/wp-phpbb-bridge/inc/widgets/wpbb_topics_widget.php on line 149 This is an error caused by the fact that the WP phpBB Bridge plugin is naively written in places. For instance, in this case the plugin authors don’t expect you to be using a socket instead of a port. Looking [...]

Events Calendar Pro Nav Formatting Messed up on Empty Calendar

The Events Calendar Pro (from http://tri.be/) has a few problems. If you are trying to figure out why a calendar with no events in that month has completely screwed up header navigation, just put this line of code inside of table.php in the top of the display_day function (put it directly before the for loop): [...]