Super useful post about filtering and best practice within Backbonejs. http://tech.pro/tutorial/1519/rendering-a-filtered-backbonecollection Effectively best practice for future planning is to put filtering into the collection – but to be careful that you…
Published December 21st, 2014 by gillianmc
Just finished backbonejs course on Lynda (Up and Running with Backbone.js with Kai Gittens) and am super excited about getting into Backbone a bit more. At the moment I’m working…
Published September 4th, 2014 by gillianmc
Been working on some server side javascript of late and came up with this function below to get an initial string and mark it up differently so that when CSS…
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Published September 4th, 2014 by gillianmc
Quick and handy one to keep around – outputs the largest of 2 numbers for JS
Published August 22nd, 2014 by gillianmc
Just doing a bit of work on a range slider and keeping track of useful bits of the process. Using this as a fallback http://andreruffert.github.io/rangeslider.js/ it goes back to IE8 Some…
Published June 30th, 2014 by gillianmc
Intro In order to deal with the issue of images in responsive sites the ‘picture’ element and srcset have very recently been developed into a HTML standard after much specification…
Published May 9th, 2014 by gillianmc
Alright its been a while since this blog has been used, mostly because I swapped hosting and never got around to moving this as well as all of the other…
Published July 26th, 2012 by gillianmc
After a long debacle with a print stylesheet issue.. the following lessons have been learnt: If a stylesheet is linked to like this: as there is no media attribute set…
Published July 26th, 2012 by gillianmc
Handy one.. to check whether or not an element is a particular type of element (for e.g.a strong element). This code checks if the first child element of subnavigation is…
Published July 14th, 2012 by gillianmc
We obviously try to avoid hacking away at CSS but sometimes you have to target certain IEs and this page is very useful in how to do it: Netuts link…