Rob Gravelle

Inline event handling, it’s very mention brings shivers up developers’ backs! We’ve all heard the reasons that you should NEVER – and I mean NEVER – use them. I won’t reiterate them yet again here, but I’d like to point out that someone (likely Charles Dickens) also once said to “never say never!” Where ever […]

DevOps Enterprise, this year’s Agile, Continuous Delivery and DevOps Transformation Summit today announced that its Program is finalized and available for review at (http://devopsenterprise.io/). Software executives from Nordstrom, Target, Disney, GE, Raytheon, Macy’s and more will present real-world case studies and share practical approaches on how DevOps and Continuous Delivery drives value to customers and […]

One of the best things about YouTube videos is the ability to embed them in your own site so that you don’t have to host the video files. Can you imagine if everyone who wanted to show a video had a copy of it on their server? Talk about disk wastage! The iFrame element, which […]

Adding Patterns and Animations to HTML5 Progress Bars The addition of the Progress element to the HTML5 spec has opened a whole new avenue for providing visual feedback on long-running tasks. In the Using CSS to Make a Visually Consistent Cross-browser HTML5 Progress Bar article, I demonstrated how to turn off the browser’s default styling […]

Using CSS to Make a Visually Consistent Cross-browser HTML5 Progress Bar Got to get back to zero Got to erase, rewind Just bring it back to zero Go back in time – Back to Zero, John Perinbam (c) 2009 Just a short time ago, I wrote how to show progress reports for long-running PHP scripts. […]

Providing Feedback on Long-running Scripts in Older Browsers In the Show Progress Report for Long-running PHP Scripts article, we learned how to display a progress bar to update the user on a long-running server-side process. It’s hard to believe that only a short time ago, users had to make due with a spinning hour glass […]

Show Progress Report for Long-running PHP Scripts If you’ve ever downloaded a large video or installation file, you could always follow your progress on the download dialog: Unfortunately, browsers aren’t able to update you on the progress of long-running processes that take place on the server – that is until they’re done. Meanwhile, you have […]

You might think that the EventSource is part of the recent HTML5 spec. Actually, it’s part of the Server-Sent Events (SSE) API proposed by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). It’s a standard that includes to a mechanism for servers to push content to the client. Opera was the first browser to include […]

Programmatic WordPress Post Creation WordPress is used to manage everything from complex sites to casual blogs. While WordPress’s built-in editor suffices for most applications, there are times when you need to create more complex posts or create them in bulk. For those jobs, it might be more economical to write code to take care of […]

Displaying Feed Content using jQuery Are you looking to present visitors with feed content originating from your own site or from an external provider? In version 1.5, jQuery introduced support for XML parsing, which makes it work with both Atom and RSS feeds without plugins or 3rd party services. In fact jQuery is really all […]

Working with Tables Using jQuery Since the advent of CSS styling, tables have been relegated back to their original purpose of displaying tabular data – a job that they do extremely well. Unfortunately, their cumbersome tag structure make them difficult to work with in a dynamic way. Difficult for plain JavaScript maybe, but not for […]

Performing Batch DOM Operations Using jQuery One of the best features of jQuery is its extensive collection of Document Object Model (DOM) methods. They make dynamically updating the DOM easier than ever. But what makes them really great is their ability to be applied to multiple objects at once (thanks to CSS selectors) and modify […]