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Nov
12

Everything is a property of an object in JavaScript

I am bumping this up because I think it's important. This was originally published on my blog on July 8th, 2008!

jQuery in Action coverThe book jQuery in Action is no light reading. It's not the type of book you can read in a couple of sittings. I started reading my copy several months ago. It might easily become one of the best three-to-five computer books I'll read in my life. I am reading the excellent appendix now, titled: JavaScript that you need to know but might not! Boy did I totally not! I will dump what I am learning here in two installments. Read more →

Oct
31

Learning Ruby on Rails Day 41

So I modified my Shovell code to use unobtrusive jQuery. Read more →

Oct
30

Learning Ruby on Rails Day 40

Where did time go? Last time I added an entry to my Learning Ruby on Rails journal, it was May 6th. Today is October 30th. There may have been 40 days of learning between then and now. I am back into it — is what matters. Read more →

Oct
27

Using Greasemonkey to load and use jQuery while being considerate to John's bandwidth

When I googled how to use jQuery in a Greasemonkey script — a script to run on a web page that already loads some other, conflicting, JavaScript framework, like Prototype — I found no script that worked. Not a fucking one. They all contained very wrong bits, and I wander why they're still published. They're still indexed so that people like me can experience more pain. Here's what I came up with after much labor. I believe it is fail-proof. Read more →

Sep
01

Binding an event listener to a DOM element that may not yet exist

There's a very sweet jQuery plugin that makes it possible to bind event listeners to elements that may not have been added, yet, to the document. Read more →

Oct
18

Truthy and falsy in JavaScript

The purpose of this article is to help me and perhaps yourself differentiate between true, truthy, false and falsy in JavaScript. If you read through the article, in the end you will face two fun challenges. Good luck ;-) Read more →

Aug
21

A brick came into the mail yesterday

I received in the mail my pre-ordered copy of Pro Drupal Development Second Edition yesterday.

The book is a brick. 667 pages with the index.

I am a little disappointed already... To be fair, I had high expectations. The treatment JavaScript and Ajax would receive was the first thing I'd look into. Read more →

Sep
26

Working on the product pages

Although we will want the browser to execute our JavaScript code on product pages only, we will not add our JavaScript code to product.liquid. We could, but we prefer to add all JavaScript to the head element of the document — where we can find all code in a snap, even when tired and confused. Read more →

Sep
26

Using the jQuery library

I will be using the jQuery library in this tutorial, but use any JavaScript library you know and love. Read more →

Sep
26

A store that sells popsicles

Let's start with a context, as a context makes the whole process fun. You want to sell frozen sweets. Each frozen sweet has its variants. Generally-speaking, these variants specify a quantity, and a flavor — and some sweets come with the option of being sugar-free. The following is a screenshot of the popsicle product page as it is now.

Your product page showing all variants without JavaScript

To be fair, there could be much more variants here. I was limited to 10 SKUs when I set up my fake shop for this tutorial. Still, seeing these 8 options in a table next to 8 radio buttons is not very pretty.

What we'd aim for would be something like this:

Your product page showing variants with JavaScript

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