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


 
 

 
project management
 

ssh-askpass in Aptana with git project on OS X

I recently downloaded Aptana on OS X Snow Leopard because I know of no other free good IDE. I had a project set up under Git that I was trying to work with and I discovered that if I went to “import” I could select ...
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autobiographical
 

jQuery UI Patch Landed!

I’m now an official contributer to the jQuery codebase (well, jQuery UI). This is my first real code contribution to a major open source project. Kind of exciting. Granted it was only one line of code (started as around 1...
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programming concepts
 

POOF – Recursive Directory Listing in Python

I’ve begun working on a new project, POOF (Project Orphaned Object Finder). It searches through a directory and all sub-directories to detect files that are not referenced by any other files, or not referenced by a file y...
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programming concepts
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Flurl – Part 5: The Unicorn/Panda Rainbow Connection

Wait, where’s parts 2 through 4? Not done yet, but I’m done with the project and I may never get around to posting those other parts and wanted to post the finished product. Again, Flurl is a little practice exercis...
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programming concepts
 

CSS 3 Animation? Yes Please!

Ok, I’m so mega busy right now working on Flurl. I need to have it done TONIGHT because I’ve got other pressing obligations coming up and I just won’t have any time to work on it after today. I wanted to have ...
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programming concepts
 

Flurl – Part 1.a: Rolling your own JavaScript library, setting up the core

Flurl is a mashup I did recently as a practice exercise. It takes a flickr panda photo-stream, displays a photo, and uses qurl to make a shortened URL link to the photo. These are the notes I took while I was doing it. The proj...
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