IRC server & channels added!
Since the start of this week, there is an own IRC server running at irc.droom.at (webchat or connect directly with your favourite IRC client) which offers support for:
Rails
jQuery
symfony
HAML / SASS
and sports some fun channels. Check it out and populate the server
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How to process multiple checkboxes with jQuery
The functionality isn’t new: you have a list of stuff and want checkboxes before the elements so you can mass-process them. In my case, I wanted to set a number of list elements to a certain state (which in this case means a status flag in the database) so the need arose to fetch all [...]
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In this case, my SELECT looks like:
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Sometimes it is useful to employ javascript cookies for certain functionality. An example:
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If you are frequently using AJAX calls in your website or application, jQuery’s built-in AJAX functions come in handy. Say you want to dynamically load the contents of a PHP file into a DIV:
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A colleague asked me how to create a small folding box in javascript the other day. With JS alone, this task is really tedious so I gave him a quick heads up on how to accomplish that in a mere second with jQuery.
Let’s say we have a DIV in our HTML that has the id [...]
