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Code style guides, personal preference or a set of best practices

January 04, 2014 Tagged in:

opinion

Early in 2013 Ontraport engineering team decided on a code style guide. After years of everyone coding to their own standard we now have a unified style across all languages. Everyone on the team voted so it was about as fair as it could be. Most of my style preferences... Read more

Web Components - IowaJS, Oct 2013

October 31, 2013 Tagged in:

html5
iowajs

Looking back, jQuery UI was my first experience with “web components”. When I first discovered them I as amazed as to how easy it was to setup any widget. Just include jQuery and jQuery UI and just call the widget code. In the exsmaple below, .button() Setting up of an... Read more

jQuery cloneVal, automatically copy :input values

October 12, 2013 Tagged in:

It’s been awhile since I released a good old fashion jQuery plugin. cloneVal targets :inputs on a form and lets you copy/clone the value to one or a set of target :inputs. view the code in action GitHub A practical use case for this plugin would be an e-commerce form... Read more

Fun with HTML5 templates and shadowDom API

October 12, 2013 Tagged in:

html5

I recently started playing around with the new <template></template> tag introduced in html5. On the surface it looks pretty plain, it appears to another template engine. But when combined with the shadowDom API it can be pretty powerful. Take this code example. <div id="target"> <span class="label">Enter your name</span> <span class="name">name</span>... Read more

Creating Themes for Ontraport/OfficeAutoPilot Forms

July 25, 2013 Tagged in:

ontraport

Ontraport / OfficeAutoPilot’s formeditor is pretty powerful, it’s great for creating one off designs. But did you know that you can use it to create themes that you can apply to other formeditor created forms? This setup will work on Wordpress, Landing Pages and plain old html pages. Quick Demo... Read more

Setting up kdiff3 as the Default Merge Tool for git on Windows

July 08, 2013 Tagged in:

git
windows

You can set up any merge tool in git to handle conflicts. When I used SVN, winmerge was my tool of choice. But since switching to git, it left me to seek out a replacement that does 3-way merging. After searching around it seems that kdiff3 is one of the... Read more

Creating a custom scrollbar with scrolljs

July 02, 2013 Tagged in:

Over the past couple of years I have run into several cases were I needed to interact with the dom properties related to scrolling an element. I found my self wishing / searching for library to handle the nuances of the api. So I wrote scrolljs. Scrolljs aims to make... Read more

Jesse Baird