Weirdness Explained - TinyMCE decodes and strips < and > entities
The problem I wanted to be able to enter the text "<30" into a TinyMCE block and was finding that it would save once, but then get stripped out by TinyMCE once the page was reloaded. What's going on h...
Show all photos of Felix
Hey Everybody! Most of you coming to the site mainly want to see photos of Felix. Now I've made a little tagging feature that allows you to do just that. It pulls together all photos of Felix from w...
jQuery Form Not Submitting
Continuing my theme of posting about minor issues that waste far too much development time, I bring you the perils of Adblock plugins. I love Adblock Plus. I use it all the time and even use it to blo...
URL verification
While working on a project, I needed to verify that a user-submitted URL was actually pointing to a valid page. I found and slightly modified a code snippet that did just that using cURL. It's pretty ...
Catch the spam, keep your data - PHP spam filtering
Spam is annoying. Anytime you open up comments to the world, you must contend with all the crazies who wanted to place spammy links on your site, or just be a general nuisance that makes you want to b...
Felix Brian Champagne
Would you believe it, but about an hour after getting the site live and posting the previous entry, Jess went into labor. About 8 hours after that, Felix Brian Champagne was born. With the first coup...
New website
It's a new decade, so it's time for a new website. There were a lot of things that had been nagging me with the old site, so I have been working late nights getting this up. Some of my main goals were...
Blocking Facebook Social Plugins
While it has some potentially cool features, the new social plugins for Facebook give off an altogether creepy vibe.The plugins allow web developers to add neat little widgets in iframes on their site...
"Reload to activate window console" in Firebug
This friendly little message's intended meaning seems to be pretty clear. The DOM was loaded before you started Firebug, so reload the page and all will be well. But, several times I have become frust...
New Zealand - Day 16 - The Departure
All good things must end. After spending the last few hours together and making sure everything was packed up and ready to go, it was, sadly, time to leave. Jess drove me to the airport and we had a ...
