This year, WordCamp Atlanta is going to be held from March 15 – 16 and I couldn’t be more excited. It’s going to be held in downtown Atlanta at The Loudermilk Center with the after party being hosted at the official 8BIT / WP Daily office.
Category: Notes (Page 38 of 50)
Notes on programming-related problems that I’ve encountered while working on various projects.
One of the cool things about managing a blog that talks significantly about code is the feedback that I get based on certain code snippets I share.
Specifically, I enjoy getting comments that ask why I’ve chosen to do things a certain way versus another. Some of these examples include:
- Why have I opted to use functions rather than constants?
- Why have I chosen to use a custom query over encapsulating some built in functions?
- …and so on.
I think that for most people who manage a blog, they hope that part of what they write is contributing something positive and helpful to the Internet (this isn’t always the case, for sure).
Similarly, I think that people who engage in discussion via thoughtful comments are looking to improve on the original content.
At the risk of committing a generalization, this seems to be the case in most programming blogs. While thinking about this, it did raise a question:
Today, my family and I – and all of the in-laws on both sides – are celebrating Christmas, so we’re spending time exchanging gifts, hanging out, eating, and enjoying the time with each other.
Whatever you’re celebrating today – even if it’s nothing at all – I hope you guys are having an awesome time, as well.
I’m looking forward to bringing in 2013 with as much good stuff as possible and hope you are, as well. I’ll be back to the regular content tomorrow.
Merry Christmas and to all a good night (or good morning or whatever time it is where you are or when you read this :)).
One of the best things about doing any type of experiment is that you’re not necessarily committed to following through on anything beyond seeing if the idea has any value.
Last week, I asked – in awkwardness and all – if there was any reason or interest in discussing WordPress development via a series of video blog posts. Overall, the response between the comments and via Twitter was nearly 50/50.
When it comes to writing jQuery-based JavaScript, there are generally two camps of people:
- Those who believe that you should intermingle jQuery with vanilla JavaScript for when you need it
- Those who believe that if you’re importing jQuery, then you should use it as much as possible
Both camps have their own sets of arguments neither of which I’m looking to explore in this particular post; however, one of the features that’s all too common is having to loop through a vanilla array using JavaScript.
The two main ways that you can do about doing this are to use a standard for, while, or do loop or use jQuery’s iterator.
If you fall into the former camp, but are looking to use an iterator, here’s how you can begin looping through an array with jQuery.
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