This is so true that it’s hilarious. And sad. Any time I try to do something a little nontrivial for the front-end, it goes downhill so quickly. It’s like you are at this bizarre Home Depot with a million tools and you aren’t quite sure what they do because the most of the instruction manuals…
Tag: web development
JSTL, instanceof, and hasProperty
I’ve been doing a little bit of JSTL over the past week, especially custom tags. I’ve written custom tags in Grails before, and there you use actual Groovy code. I guess this was how custom tags used to be written (in Java), but now you can can build your own custom tags using the standard…
Displaying images side-by-side in WordPress
I’ve been using WordPress for about two months now and I really like it. It takes away a lot of the pain from blogging. Recently I was writing a blog post and I was trying to get two images displayed side-by-side. This proved to be more difficult than I thought. There’s no immediately obvious way…
Performance testing using The Grinder
About a month ago at work, I was trying out a bunch of different performance-testing tools to figure out which one to use to performance-test our software. I ended up discovering a tool called The Grinder which uses Jython to build performance-testing scripts that you can then use to test your application. I even built…
jQuery tip: Changing the TYPE attribute of an INPUT element
I was trying to change the type attribute (using jQuery) of an input element from submit to button when I got this error: type property can’t be changed Apparently, you can’t change the type attribute of an input element once it’s part of the DOM. I figured out a way to do it by cloning…
Wallpaper
I added another wallpaper of Shakira. I have no life. It is official. I hope I get that job I applied for… It’s Web Development with PHP and MySQL… along with working on UNIX machines and network stuff. Fun stuff…