Tag: JavaScript

  • Java is not JavaScript

    Recently I’ve been taking notes on some tweets and job offers from different individuals and companies around the world and there are 2 common mistakes I see everywhere: WordPress is spelled exactly like this – with a capital ‘W’ and a capital ‘P’. Please don’t hire people for yourself if you are not aware of…

  • Submit iframe Form To External Site

    Many advertising services and external APIs provide iframes to be embedded on external sites, but also require some data to be transferred from one site to the other. iframe tags are being restricted for many reasons, mostly security. There are iframe busters (or framekillers) that export the iframe behavior in the parent window, takeover the…

  • Append a JavaScript code to DOM and run it

    When you have a user input box to promote to the frontend with plain JavaScript, attached via JSON-P or other approach serving JSON, there are few hints for appending. For instance, we have a script tag that has to generate a dynamic content. We need to locate it somehow, two possible approaches are: 1) pulling…

  • After WordCamp Oslo 2013

    It’s been a great WordCamp this weekend in Oslo, Norway – WordCamp Oslo 2013. My expectations at first were not extremely promising, mostly due to the fact that Oslo is the most expensive city in the world and the weather is unbearable for most warm country inhabitants, but the event was actually incredible in terms of…

  • jQuery UI problems since 3.5.1

    WordPress 3.5.1 landed about 3 weeks ago, since then I have had several emails, direct messages and contact requests for fixing different site-related issues, such as: I cannot drag widgets on my Widgets page My TinyMCE is not displaying on the Posts page My theme/plugin dialogs are broken My X functionality (say slider) behaves in…

  • How To Prepare For A Software Engineering Job

    Getting ready for your first software engineering job can be daunting. Developers are in demand, but gaining the minimum skill set for becoming competitive usually takes 2-3 years. The first job or two as an engineer could be quite challenging to land. The two most important things you need to understand first are: With that…

  • Mind Your JavaScript on WordPress.tv

    My “Mind your JavaScript” talk from WordCamp Oslo last month is now live on WordPress.tv: Special props to @koop for his JavaScript talk from 2011 and his work on the gallery feature for 3.5. Note: the talk doesn’t make much sense without the slides but unfortunately the video couldn’t focus on both the speakers and…