Denis Barushev

Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site

Firebug Console Object and API

Firebug adds a global variable named “console” to all web pages loaded in Firefox. This object contains many methods that allow you to write to the Firebug console to expose information that is flowing through your scripts.

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“ Calling preventDefault during any stage of event flow cancels the event, meaning that any default action normally taken by the implementation as a result of the event will not occur. Gecko DOM Reference

October 9

“ If child is a reference to an existing node in the document, appendChild moves it from its current position to the new position (i.e. there is no requirement to remove the node from its parent node before appending it to some other node). Gecko DOM Reference

September 24

A Simple jQuery Plugin Skeleton

(function ($) {
    $.fn.pluginName = function (settings) {
        settings = $.extend({
            param: 'value'
        }, settings);

        return this.each(
            function () {
                var $this = $(this);
                // plugin code here
            }
        );
    };
})(jQuery);

http://gist.github.com/12656

September 19

CSS min-height Fast Hack

This hack which is a pure CSS solution will get a min-height working for IE6. MSIE 7.0 supports CSS min-height.

selector {
    min-height: 500px;
    height: auto !important;
    height: 500px;
}

Min-Height Fast Hack

CSS
IE6

September 18

Using Kompare for Git Diffs

It’s possible to use kompare as a graphical diff viewer for git. I created file git-kompare in my /usr/local/bin/ directory with such content:

git diff $* | kompare -

I also created alias gk for this command in my ~.bashrc:

alias gk='git-kompare'

Now I can use gk command instead of git diff with all its options.

September 16

Bash Script That Deletes Itself

suicide.sh

#!/bin/rm

bash

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Truncating a File to Zero Bytes

> log/development.log

bash

August 26

Removing a Remote git Branch

git push origin :branch_name

git
bash