It’s easy to overlook the basics sometimes and be a clever dick with some overly complicated Javascript solution when there’s a nice easy HTML attribute that can solve the problem. In this post, I’m talking about the target attribute of the <base> tag which I suddenly had an "ohhhhh" moment with yesterday. There’s no need to use jQuery/Javascript to target links to _top, for example, just set the target in the base tag.
I often need to convert UNIX timestamps from log files into a human readable format and need a quick and easy to access tool for doing so, and have written up this post with the converter tool followed by an explanation of the Javascript code behind it.
Disqus is a 3rd party hosted Javascript comments system for websites which I use on several of my websites including this one. Disqus has an undocument set of callback functions which can be called after it has finished loading, when new comments are posted, etc.
So you need to put a tab on the command line when using BASH on Linux, Mac, BSD? How to do it? The tab character is usually used for command completion etc so typing in a tab won't render one on the command line.
I was asked on my post about showing a loading image when loading AJAX content with jQuery how to disable the button that loads the content while it’s loading, and then re-enable it again once the content is fully loaded. This post shows how to do this, and it will work whether it’s a link, button or some other action which calls the AJAX loading function.
When assigning a click handler to an anchor tag with jQuery you’ll often want to then prevent the browser from clicking through to the actual link. There are two ways I know of to do this with jQuery and these are presented there.