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Hacked!

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Last month, the Young Israel site was hacked and destroyed. A little talking with my ISP's tech support reminded me that I had an old version of Wordpress on the site, in a folder called "wordpress," and that it contained a vulnerability that make the vandalism possible. When I [...]
2009 11 17 Danny Comments (0)

Things I Learned About .htaccess

All I wanted was to get a better 404 page for the bililite.com site and to use mod_rewrite to standardize my pages. Of course, nothing is ever simple and mod_rewrite is voodoo. So it took a week of experimenting, pulling my hair and staring at a lot of 500 errors, but I think I got [...]
2009 07 27 Danny Comments (0)

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

See the updated version. I needed a date/time picker and spend a couple of hours making a simple one: $('#datetime').flexdate() Obviously, I didn't spend a couple of hours putting this together. I wrote it quickly, then spend the hours getting it to work even remotely correctly in Internet Explorer.
2009 06 29 Danny Javascript Comments (2)

Moving the Blog

I decided that this blog is mine, rather than Young Israel's, so I wanted to move it to a domain that I personally own. Thus, it is no longer at youngisrael-stl.org/wordpress, but at bililite.com/blog. Moving the blog intact was non-trivial, so I'm recording how I did it, based on mydigitallife's instructions: Create the new folder, bililite.com/blog/ Create [...]
2009 06 05 Danny PHP Comments (0)

jQuery UI 1.7

Finally, jQuery UI 1.6 final is out, renamed 1.7, and it's on google ajax libraries, so it's minimized (45K for the whole thing; .27 sec to download for me, which is nothing, especially if you're loading at the end of your code so the user is busy reading the content of your site). The contributors list [...]
2009 03 08 Danny jQuery Comments (0)

The Agony of Unicode (and backing up mySQL)

All I wanted to do was back up the Young Israel databases, some way more amenable to automation than phpMyAdmin. There are lots of PHP-based solutions on the web, but all seem based on mysqldump. I implemented one and found myself faced with an eyeful of אריאל מאיר יעקב בן דוד אברהם where the Hebrew [...]
2009 02 10 Danny PHP Comments (1)

Upgrading to jQuery UI 1.6

I've updated my widgets tutorials to use jQuery UI 1.6, pulling the rc5 release off the svn site and turning them into pages rather than posts, since they seem to be so popular. See the widget tutorial and the extending widgets page. Now all I need is for the UI team to officially release 1.6 so [...]
2009 01 29 Danny jQuery Comments (0)

jQuery CSS parser

Updated 2009-05-03 Every time I create or use a jQuery plugin, I realize that the assigning of behaviors to elements on the page is a design decision, not a programming one, and one that should be made by the guy in charge of the CSS, not the guy in charge of the javascript. Even when I'm [...]
2009 01 16 Danny jQuery Comments (12)

Changes

Switched themes to Barthelme; very simple and elegant. Removed the Chili code highlighting line-numbering, which only worked intermittently, tended to get lost in the margins of the <pre> elements, and didn't add much.
2008 10 23 Danny Comments (0)

Testing demo insertion

I added some potentially dangerous code to automatically turn code examples (things in <code> elements with class demo into actual HTML or javascript that are added to the post. The javascript part works; I used it in the last post; here's testing the HTML insertion: <div style="background: purple; margin: 2px">This is a test</div> And more [...]
2008 08 14 Danny jQuery Comments (1)