This may not sound like much, but I’m not really a JS guru, but I’m working with a bunch of them at the moment, so when I work something out and save a nanosecond with a code streamline, I think I ought to note it down.
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It was driving me mad, constantly typing in new bits of text to convert one site’s URL into another’s – so I wrote a bit of code to do it for me!
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Made a hefty start on the first forms for the super-secret web project djeli and I are working on. Once the form was done, I pulled out my jQuery reference and tinkered until I had a field that auto-filled in as you fill in another field and which cuts off the auto-fill once you edit it so it doesn’t match any more. A little complicated to explain, but huge fun to get working, and will be useful, I think.
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Of course there are other things I want to go through and finesse, but this should be enough to show it to the world now at least. Yay! Only taken about 5 months!
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Practicing the syntax I’d learnt reading my book on the train. Seems to work 
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This one’s a little more complicated than can be explained in just a title. At work they’re trying to implement a new course-construction tool called eXe which is an open-source software product, and pretty neat – but it lacked any facility to customise the html template in which it exports, which is something we really really need it to do. Anyway, so, I’ve never used the Unix command line (terminal in Mac OS X), never worked on an open source project, never programmed in Python. It took me pretty much 2-3 days to (a) get the source code and (b) manage to build it so that it would run, which I couldn’t have done without the very kind help of one of the devs in NZ. But I got there in the end… and within a couple of hours had added/changed enough of my own code to get it to pick up a custom template placed in the folder containing the custom stylesheets. So now I’m tweaking this and seeing how far I can push it, but the big breakthrough was that point where I managed to code an app in a language I’ve never used and get it to work – wheeeeee!
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It’s been bugging me for days, but I seem to have worked it out. Now to customise it and make it so that the comments themselves are visible. Oh, and add in a home link and edit-post option. Then we’ll be ready!!!
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And gosh, I’ve learnt a lot today! Dragged out my worn and sorry PHP knowledge for a refresher. Ditto for JavaScript and CSS. I’ve set up the basic template, worked out how to add in multiple widgets (for the categories cloud and calendar) and generally tweaked and bullied the whole thing into submission. I think it’ll be a couple of days before it goes live though – still have to do the same for a couple of other blogs before I can redirect the domain!
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Yay! Played around in Photoshop with layer styles and custom shapes (creating my own) and I’m rather pleased with the result, oh yes I am *preen*. You’ll be seeing it online soon enough – hopefully by the end of the weekend!
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Yes, at long last – after three weeks of battling with assorted Internet Explorers – I’ve finished the big complicated five-level navigation. It’s gone for final testing. I’m really quite proud of it, I must say. I feel terribly clever.
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