I’m pressing on with learning javascript, specifically jQuery. I’ve made quite a bit of progress. I’ve got some working AJAX calls, and nifty CSS and text manipulation using jQuery. Of course, I’m not so good using external files so I put all of the javascript inside the HEAD tags of the page. This can lead to validation problems which can be easily solved with this terrific tutorial.

CSS, JavaScript and XHTML Explained » Including Javascript in XHTML: external, DOM created, CDATA & comments.

This program is a long time coming. Referee retention is much more difficult than referee recruiting. Some good reading here.

TheFA.com - Welcome to Respect.

Despite my best intents, I wrote a 600 word post today. I rarely go that long so I clipped it with the more tag. Well, it’s obviously been a while because the next thing I saw was the horror of the entire feed showing up on a BuzzBoosted web site page. Come to find out that since WP 2.5, feeds don’t respect the more tag any longer.

As always with all things usability, Ozh to the rescue with his Better Feed plugin. Now when I tried some of the fancy footnoting and stuff in the plugin, BuzzBoost (Feedburner feature) demolished the CSS on the rest of the page. Turned the web page into an eye chart so I’m just using it to cut the feed off.

WordPress Plugin : Better Feed « planetOzh.

With fingers crossed and backups at the ready, I updated to WordPress 2.6 this morning. I’m pleased to report if you were successful applying the unofficial patch to EC3 to make it work with WP 2.5, it should work fine with WP 2.6. Links to the patch are around here somewhere if you need it still.

The handwriting was on the wall. Now it’s a done deal. Teddy’s out of the circus that’s the New York Islanders. Supporting this team is so difficult. Give me a call when they hit rock bottom. I don’t think they’ve been there yet.

HockeyNation

When is an upgrade not an upgrade? When RIM does it. Another summer of DOS-era email! Yippee.

BIS upgraded, but OS 4.5 won’t be until September | BlackBerry Cool

I generally don’t like to spread rumors but this might be worth spreading. H/T to Blackberry Cool.

BIS 2.5 upgrade coming June 28th, with HTML e-mail? | BlackBerry Cool

It’s taken me the better part of a year to teach myself how to code in php and write MySql queries. Now I’m on to javascript and it’s not going well. Actually, I’m not really working that hard at javascript but I am interested in jQuery since it appears to be perfect for someone with a dangerously limited knowledge of javascript.

I haven’t gotten very far with jQuery. Probably because I don’t understand javascript. I wrote a couple of pages which use hide/show and animated transitions but that’s it. Just glitz rather than heavy lifting. I know I can use jQuery’s AJAX functions to call remote scripts via POST but I want to do something with the data that comes back. I just haven’t figured out how and I can’t seem to find a good online tutorial for this. Oh well.

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

My SMF message board saw a spike in harvesting traffic several weeks ago despite my best efforts to prevent that from happening. The CAPTHCA didn’t let any of spam through but the harvesters were eating bandwidth and server resources. Last week, I took action by hacking the index.php file to use the blacklist function of Project Honeypot. Jan developed a nice WordPress plugin but there was nothing available off the shelf for Simple Machines Forum message board. I took the http:bL query from Jan’s code, inserted my key and put the code at the beginning of the index.php file. When I get a hit from the query, I redirect the harvester to the Honeypot I installed. Took a couple of days but harvesters are being redirected to the Honeypot and my message board is seeing much less traffic.

If you are interested in finding out more about Project Honeypot, click the chicklet on the sidebar of this blog.

Fire up the dvr for the next 3 weeks or so.

H/T to The Offside for the espn TV schedule.