http://moronicbajebus.com Banana Ice Cream! Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:24:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A quick glance at the Selectors API indicates to me that I am not alone in my desire to retrieve DOM elements with CSS selector syntax. http://moronicbajebus.com/2006/10/12/dom-selectors-api/ Javascript needs to grow. The Javascript libraries such as Prototype and JQuery should barely exist. Before you say anything, let me refine the statement. Firstly, I am not discrediting them because they are very usefully libraries. Why should they barely exist? Much of their functionality, as ... http://moronicbajebus.com/2006/08/31/better-javascript/ I was recently asked by a friend for information about how to have a random background image. Well not completely random, the background image should be from a set of images. My idea: add a class, randomly from a set, to the body (or another element) with Javascript. I ... http://moronicbajebus.com/2006/07/30/add-a-class-randomly-from-a-set/ A common problem (as a quick search shows) when creating a file upload script in PHP is the permissions on the destination directory. The PHP engine must have permissions to write a file to the destination directory. For Linux and Unix file system, the standard way is to use CHMOD; ... http://moronicbajebus.com/2006/07/14/php-upload-file-permissions-on-afs/ I forget which one of my professors said it but I still think it holds true, “a reference is just a cross dressing pointer.” http://moronicbajebus.com/2006/02/17/pointer-with-lipstick/ I had trouble with my early Java programs when I would use packages. If I left my files in the default package, it worked fine. But when I added them to a package, I could build them fine—just not run them. I found it to be a common ... http://moronicbajebus.com/2006/02/13/package-troubleshooting/ A cartoon to teach you to count with your toes and fingers in binary. http://moronicbajebus.com/2006/02/03/count-binary/ At my job, I have recently been between projects. I have recently discovered PEAR which the concept of a library of PHP classes is something that I have wanted. I wanted to install these classes on the school’s server. Since I cannot add packages to the main repository I took ... http://moronicbajebus.com/2006/01/19/first-run-with-pear/ A good design for an Application Programming Interface (API) can speed up development. But what is a good API design? My short list, based on using them, for a good design: I should not be hassled with tedious initialization. In my networking class, I was required to use the standard C ... http://moronicbajebus.com/2006/01/03/api-design/