Category: Notes (Page 12 of 50)

Notes on programming-related problems that I’ve encountered while working on various projects.

Syncing Atom Settings Between Computers

April 4, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Syncing Atom settings between multiple machines is useful in that you’re able to maintain all of your packages, settings, and so on regardless of the machine you’re on.

And yes, I’ve been talking about Atom a bit more as of late. I’m clearly a fan. But that’s evident, right?

If you maintain more than one machine, then it’s usually nice to have the same development environment configured between the two of them.

Here’s a method for syncing Atom’s settings between though it does assume you use Dropbox. If not, any service you use for sharing files can be used, but your actual steps will vary.

Digest For February 28, 2016

March 5, 2016 / Tom

I typically don’t post on Saturdays, and I usually let those who have signed up to receive emails via Postmatic get their summary via email once a week.

Time

But not everyone reads blogs the same way, and not everyone subscribes via email, so I thought I’d try something new. That is, this is an experiment (and I invite your critique at the end of the post).

With that said, here is a summary of the posts from this week.

Detecting Copy and Paste in JavaScript

March 1, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Detecting copy and paste in JavaScript is not something that’s new to web development. How you do it may vary, though, depending on the set of tools you’re using.

Cut and paste, not cut and tape. And not like this.

Given I focus primarily on WordPress, the majority of the JavaScript I write uses jQuery. And though there are a number of ways you can go about doing this (which I’ll talk about later), some of them are deprecated (though they still work).

Anyway, so I was specifically looking for a way to handle the case where a user pastes content into a field using keyboard shortcuts.

Loading WordPress Tries to Download a File

February 23, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Over the past few weeks, I’ve had a few clients contact me saying that their website won’t load. Instead, their current installation of WordPress tries to download a file whenever they access their site.

This doesn’t matter if you try to access wp-login.php, /wp-admin, or any of the usual directories. Further, if you look at the permissions on each of the files, everything looks in order.

WordPress File Permission Scheme

On top of that, there are no suspicious (read: malicious) files in place that would be redirecting a user’s request or anything like that.

So what gives?

The Difference Between Parameters and Arguments

February 4, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

When reading the documentation, reading technical articles, or dealing with anything programming related you’re going to come across both parameters and arguments.

Sometimes, people will use these phrases interchangeably. For what it’s worth, I think that’s okay. People know what the speaker or author is referring to when they are using these terms.

But there is a difference between the two. So if you find yourself in a situation – maybe an interview or a setting that requires a bit more precision – here’s the difference.