Troy Whiteley

ThinBox updated

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:04:41 -0700

I just pushed a change to ThinBox. It fixes an issue with ThinBox.open(). It will now work when there are no elements on the page targeting ThinBox.

ThirdStyle

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:52:40 -0700

ThirdStyle:

New version of Flash Flash Revolution.

TwitterScroll

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:59:34 -0800

TwitterScroll is an experimental app that streams tweaks from a given topic.

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Thinbox

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:58:00 -0800

ThinBox is a result of frustration from existing lightbox implementations. ThinBox is designed to be customizable, yet very lightweight. It is also a near drop in replacement for the now deprecated Thickbox.

Loading of content form hidden elements based on id.
Iframed content.
Ability to dynamically resize an iframe with animation.
Image loading with image caption loaded from hidden element.
Settings for everything, including id’s used on thinbox elements.
Setting to make the thinbox 100% of the browser height.

Dependencies

jQuery 1.3

Usage

To get basic functionality working, just include the correct javascript files on the page. Thinbox will work right out of the box without any configuration changes.

Python Gmail Checker

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:55:57 -0800

Note: This script is pretty pointless. Use Google Notifier + Growl for a better experience.

Checks Gmail and alerts you of new messages via growl. Unfortunately, growl’s python bindings suck and it just eats up memory. I suppose you can set this up as a cron job.

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PHP Validation Class

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:54:00 -0800

Quick and easy way to do simple validations in PHP.

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DefaultInput

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:23:44 -0800

DefaultInput is a jQuery plugin that handles the display of default text in input fields. The benefit to this script is that you just have to put the class jsDefaultInput on the form element you want to be affected. Just make sure you set the value of the input element.

Dependencies

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BLT Checkbox

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:20:56 -0800

Create custom checkboxes by simply defining css styles. This moves all of the presentation to css instead of relying on the jquery plugin to write html.

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AjaxPages

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:46 -0800

AjaxPages allows you to have urls that look like: example.com/#/music/artist/

By using this approach, you will no longer have full page refreshes. If implemented correctly, your site may appear to much more responsive.

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Force Reset Master [GIT]

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:16:49 -0800

I’ve had a few occasions when something would happen and git would refuse to let me change a branch, reset or pull. I was basically stuck. One option would have been to wipe my local git repo and re-pull from the remote, but that’s a little extreme.

I found out a way that is relatively harmless. It’s worked every time for me when I absolutely need my master reset. Warning, make sure you have a backup of your stuff before running this command.

$ git reset HEAD^ --hard
$ git pull

If everything worked as planned, you should have exactly what’s on origin/master. Now you can manually re-add your changes one by one to find out what caused git to mess up.

A few things I think cause this are people working on a project with you force pushing to remote or using different line endings.

Finding Which Revision Broke A Build [GIT]

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:11:00 -0800

So someone broke something and you have no idea which revision it was. Git has a very handy way for you to figure it out. All you need to know is the revision number for a build that worked. Then you can use the git bisect command to find the bad revision.

$ git bisect start
$ git bisect bad
$ git bisect good df2cdf88a8b9fd8232880787b6de72de2f4efb20

You should then get some output like:

Bisecting: 467 revisions left to test after this

This will automatically checkout a revision somewhere in the middle of the revisions marked good and bad. This is when you will run a build and test if it broke. If it did:

$ git bisect bad

or if it succeeded:

$ git bisect good

Just continue this until git gives you the revision it thinks broke the build.

Source: Git documentation