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Poor programmer’s website monitor

If you manage your own web site, it’s critical to know when there are problems, and hopefully you’ll know before your users do. There are several enterprise-grade server monitors and website monitors available ranging from free to expensive, but if you need something right now that’s simple and free, you might consider the solution I [...]

Read the full article → May 26, 2009

jQuery parent(s)

I was recently working on an unordered list in which each item is displayed with a link that does two things: first, the metadata for the item is stored in a database via Ajax; second, the item is removed from the on-screen list so it can’t be chosen again.
For example, you might display a list [...]

Read the full article → April 27, 2009

jQuery solution: selected radio button value

The radio button element in an HTML form can be awkward to manage in Javascript. For example, assume the following form:

[-]?View Code HTML<form id="radio_form">
<fieldset>
<label><input type="radio" name="color" value="red" checked="checked" />Red</label><br />
<label><input type="radio" name="color" value="yellow" />Yellow</label><br />
<label><input type="radio" name="color" [...]

Read the full article → April 20, 2009

Tracking events with Google Analytics

If you have any type of web site at all, you’ve heard about Google Analytics by now. It’s the Google solution to analyzing your web traffic. One of the more recent features in Analytics is the ability to track events that occur on your page that aren’t traditional page views. For example, if you have [...]

Read the full article → March 24, 2009