From the deep
Jul 27
Submit buttons not submitting
Wow, I have been busy lately, what with a hectic workplace and personal life. But I am here to tell you about a little problem I have known about for years but recently popped up when a friend couldn’t work out what was happening.
Jul 2
POST requests are actually GETs
I found out a pretty interesting, and slightly strange, feature of the HTTP protocol today. When submitting a form as a POST request, if you set the action to the targeted files folder name without the trailing slash it submits the form as a GET request—this caused me to scratch my head over a script for a couple minutes.
From the journal
From the deep
Obligatory links
Create simple UML diagrams on-the-fly
yUML is an online tool for creating and publishing simple UML diagrams. It’s makes it really easy for you to: Embed UML diagrams in blogs, emails and wikis, Post UML diagrams in forums and blog comments, Use directly within your web based bug tracking tool and Copy and paste UML diagrams into MS Word documents and Powerpoint presentations.
Javascript Tidy
One thing I often need to do is to tidy javascript from it’s packed state. Often to fix the developers bugs, add new features or to modify it slightly. I give you, the Javascript Tidy, a tool I couldn’t live without.
jQuery Slider plugin (Safari style)
A pretty awesome slider. Haven’t tried it out yet but the new version seems pretty easy to skin, so you can style it however-the-hell you want (note: click the ‘jQuery Slider update’ link).