Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
A couple of years ago, I maintained a small project that sought to make it easy to incorporate a JavaScript slideshow in any web-based project.
Though I no longer maintain the project, there is a bit of organic traffic that still stumbles across this site and I periodically receive emails asking about Slideshow JS so I’m posting the last working version of the utility here.
jQuery 1.4.3 was recently released and SlideNote is 100% compatible with the new version.
Sometime ago, I was working on a piece of client-side code that needed to encode some data before invoking an Ajax request. Next, it needed to decode the response data.
While doing this, I experienced a nuance in JavaScript’s replace() function that required a little bit of effort in order for it to work with the degree of flexibility I needed.
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The resources category is an attempt to summarize some of the articles, videos, and other development-related things that I found interesting throughout the past week.
Here’s some of the good stuff I found over the past seven days:
Early in 2010, I ran a series of articles for JSMag that attempted to provide an introduction to JavaScript.
Over the course of five articles, I introduce JavaScript for beginners by discussing the five major features of the language.
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