I recently had a developer on my team who had some trouble with jQuery’s $(…).data() syntax. In case anyone else has trouble, maybe I can clarify things a bit. I’m anonymizing all the code involved, of course. We wanted to make certain items have certain behaviors under certain circumstances. And so we set up a “whatToDo” […]
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Why Did My Layout Just Go All Wonky?
Friday, November 20th, 2015 – 9:51 am
If you add Boostrap’s CSS to a layout that’s already working just fine, you may find that things shift in strange, subtle ways. And even not-so-subtle ones, like basically your entire layout breaking. Generally, this seems to manifest as block-level elements becoming too small, and clipping out content inside their bounding boxes. A div that used […]
Solutions For Palm Prē “Signed Out of Palm Profile” Endless Loop
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 – 11:34 am
Yesterday, a wonderful person who goes by the handle of pzil on the Palm Prē forums gave me a solution to my “You are signed out, there is no escape” woes. You can read pzil’s solution as posted on the Palm forum, but just in case, I’m also reproducing the meat of it here, in […]
Workaround for PEAR/PECL Failure with Message “ERROR: `phpize’ failed”
Monday, May 11th, 2009 – 10:24 am
When you try to upgrade or install various PEAR (or PECL) packages, you may get the rather unhelpful error message “ERROR: `phpize’ failed”. For example, here’s the result I get when I try to install the pecl_http package: root@finrod:~# pecl install pecl_http pecl/pecl_http can optionally use PHP extension "iconv" downloading pecl_http-1.6.3.tar ... Starting to download […]