You may have heard the saying, “once you learn one programming language, every nth language is 1/2^n times as difficult”. Well, that’s only true if you’re learning from a good source. There are many places to learn how to code in Programming Language X, from YouTube to Khan Academy, to reading the raw documentation. However, the problem that I’ve found with …
Earlier today, a tweet caused significant trouble and ire among TweetDeck users. It didn’t look like your average tweet: <script class="xss">$('.xss').parents().eq(1).find('a').eq(1).click();$('[data-action=retweet]').click();alert('XSS in Tweetdeck')</script>♥ — *arrrrndy (@derGeruhn) June 11, 2014 Users didn’t even have to click on the tweet. Just the act of viewing the tweet would cause the user to automatically retweet it. As a result, the message was seen …
Recently, I had a problem where I had to make a Table of Contents out of the headings on a page. This would be a trivial task if we could just list out all the headings in one flat list: This would generate a straight list of all the headings on the page, with no apparent hierarchical order. It would …
Unless you have the comfort of using a WYSIWIG editor like Excel or Word, creating tables by code can be a huge pain. Whether it’s LaTeX, HTML, or WikiText, it feels like 90% of your time is spent on markup, and 10% spent on data entry. And that’s if you get the table correctly formatted the first time. Fortunately, there …
When I installed the Iconic One theme to this blog, I knew at once that it would need some important customizations. One of the most important that I added, was a little calendar beside each post title. Many great WordPress themes have a calendar to display the date of a post. Why not give the same touch to Iconic One? …