Today I was looking up the syntax to create a MySQL database from the command-line and found instructions on Snipplr. I haven’t seen snipplr before. I guess I’ll have to spend some time one day browsing the popular snippets.
Category Archives: Programming
A Survey of the JavaScript Programming Language
I was just confirming my understanding that JavaScript numbers are 64-bit (i.e. double precision) floats on all platforms and I stumbled upon this old article from Douglas Crockford: A Survey of the JavaScript Programming Language.
CSS overflow property
Found myself looking up the syntax for CSS overflow. I think I ended up using overflow-y instead to get scrollbars on the y-axis only. I should know more about this stuff than I do. :P
JavaScript setTimeout
Found myself looking up the syntax for the JavaScript setTimeout function today.
jQuery.browser
I used the jQuery.browser interface for the first time today to put in an IE hack.
CSS drop down menus
Doing some research into CSS based drop down menus. Found 25 Scripts for Dropdown Navigation Menus. The ones I like the most are All Levels Navigational Menu and particularly jQuery Multi Level CSS Menu #1.
Apache module mod_macro
Learned about Apache module mod_macro today.
Support for OpenID
HTTP request methods
I wanted a complete list of the HTTP methods and I found them over here. They are:
- HEAD
- GET
- POST
- PUT
- DELETE
- TRACE
- OPTIONS
- CONNECT
- PATCH
Web browser access keys
Reading about Access Keys. Also a good article on Wikipedia.
For Firefox on Linux use: Alt + Shift.