Monthly Archives: May 2008

Double Whammy: OpenID and Microformats

By Zach Leatherman | Published: May 23, 2008
Own your Identity had a great post today detailing a great feature on the signup form of the Get Satisfaction site. They rely on the fact that sites like Twitter and Flickr publish an hCard microformat for all of their users publicly on their website.
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Selecting XML Nodes with JavaScript (Peril of getElementsByTagName)

By Zach Leatherman | Published: May 10, 2008
Parsing XML in the browser can be a tricky beast. There are many different wrong ways to do it, which can leave you cold and naked in a snowstorm if you're not careful. So, let's put on the metaphorical electric one-sie of standards based code and let the power of Edison heat our JavaScript code like the innards of a tauntaun.
Posted in JavaScript | Tagged , , | 4 Comments

Javascript Objects are NOT JSON

By Zach Leatherman | Published: May 9, 2008
The headline should more accurately read “Javascript Objects are not necessarily JSON.” But that waters it down a bit, don’t you think? I know this has been posted a few times before, but this is not something I knew until recently, and after learning it, have noticed quite a few other people doing it wrong [...]
Posted in JavaScript | Tagged | 2 Comments

Surnamespacing

By Zach Leatherman | Published: May 7, 2008
Everyone has a library. Everyone has their own utility classes and functions they're using in their own personal and contracted projects. And now that everyone has a blog too, they're all releasing their libraries as open source, using the commando underoo philosophy of wild, free, and unrestricted naming schemes for their code. Not anymore. Let's surnamespace.
Posted in Humor, Java, JavaScript, PHP | 3 Comments