Reading Time: 10 minutesSo, a while back on a project, we had something terrible happen. A “stop the presses, no one go on lunch, everyone jump on a call” sort of situation. Because, you see, a hover color was wrong. ON THE HOME … Continue reading
Category: JavaScript
Snippets: Debugging CSS
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have a very handy, very small CSS Snippet that I use to debug CSS whenever the browser starts starts misbehaving. I figure I’d share with you, in case you, too, needed such a snippet.
Going to a Real Web Page from Tridion with a Bookmarklet
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve been working in a particular Tridion implementation for quite some time now. It doesn’t have Site EditExperience Manager set up. So when I find a page, I have to sort out in my own brain what the actual url … Continue reading
Lessons from a Tridion Retreat: JavaScript for Java guys
Reading Time: 9 minutesOne of the really cool things to come out of this year’s retreat was a lot of discussion around JavaScript. About 90% of the programming I do is in JavaScript. Not only is it the language where I have the … Continue reading
Seeing Screenshots with a Headless Chrome
Reading Time: 4 minutesVersion 59 of Chrome introduced something really cool for Mac developers: a Headless Chrome. It means that now we can run Chrome without using Chrome. How cool is that? In the past we’ve relied on phantom.js or Selenium Webdriver for … Continue reading
Promising a mutation: Using Mutation Observer and Promises together
Reading Time: 5 minutesSometimes you may run into a challenging situation: You want some JavaScript to execute, but only if some other element has changed. At work, we’ve recently run into a situation with this kind of challenge. We’re using a library on … Continue reading
CSSOM revisited: Modifying styles with JavaScript a more sane way
Reading Time: 3 minutesWait, what’s the CSSOM? Well, I’ve talked about it in the past; it’s the object model for your styles. I even wrote about how to make a CSSOM analyzer. What I didn’t know then, that I know now, is that … Continue reading
Hacking Media Manager at an SDL Hackathon
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year, SDL decided to host a hackathon that launched at SDL Innovate. And I, having a full time job, school, and a side project, needed something to keep me busy. So I decided to participate. I had some ideas … Continue reading
Pub Up: A bookmarklet for Tridion
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few months ago, Dominic Cronin got this wild idea to have a bookmarklet competition with Tridion. The rules were very simple: Make a bookmarklet that does something with the GUI in Tridion. Share it. Well, I’m a fan of … Continue reading
A Tiny Tool for HTML5’s localStorage and sessionStorage
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was talking to a colleague recently about the release of McSandy, and he mentioned that he had a project coming up that would require manipulation of HTML5’s LocalStorage API. I pointed him to a small gist that I’d put … Continue reading