Simplecomic

Another new-ish release, this time a PHP webcomic content management system called simplecomic. Features: Multiple comics per day Schedule posting of comics in advance Masking of comic filenames so scheduled comics can’t be easily found Comic descriptions, alt text, and transcripts Optional chapter divisions for comics “Rants” as a lightweight blog, with scheduled posting Theme …

A jQuery 1.3 quirk that bit me

deviantART just upgraded to jQuery 1.3, and we found an undocumented jQuery change that broke some things. The behavior of the :enabled selector changed. Before it selected all enabled form elements, now it selects all enabled and non-hidden form elements. This bit us, because we were using jQuery to assemble some form elements to submit …

TextMate bundle: Ack in Project (improved)

I use TextMate for work. It’s a good editor, doesn’t get in my way, and I take advantage of relatively few of its nifty features. One problem with TextMate is that its built-in search is very slow, especially across a large project. Since I work with a full checkout of the deviantART source code, searches …

Detecting failure

I warn you in advance that this post does not end with a resolution of my problems. For reasons relating to dynamic loading of javascript dependencies, I wanted to find a way to tell: When a script tag finishes loading a file Whether that file was successfully loaded For various reasons, I didn’t want to …