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Tech Note: LGF Search Bookmarklet

Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:24 pm PST

Here's a very handy Javascript bookmarklet I whipped up yesterday, when I realized I was often searching the LGF archives for phrases on other sites; for example, when I was writing the post about the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, I wanted to search LGF for my previous ...

Tech Note, Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Search Engine, Bookmarklet

Tech Note: The Opera Conundrum

Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:36 pm PDT

Here's a tech note that will, as all tech notes do, almost immediately turn into a Friday night open thread. I've gotten several complaints about the LGF front page crashing in the Opera browser, or taking forever to load if it doesn't crash. I traced the problem to a recent change in ...

Little Green Footballs, Tech Note, Javascript, Opera, Browsers, jQuery, Fat Lady

Tech Note: The Never-Ending Quest for a Faster Loading Page

Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 1:14 pm PDT

In the never-ending search for a faster loading web page, I'm pleased to announce that more than 440K has been trimmed out of LGF's front page today, and loading that bad boy should be much snappier now. I discovered that the Google +1 buttons on the front page were loading about ...

Tech Note, Javascript, Google +1, Opera, Asynchronous, LGF Blog Engine

Friday Night Open

Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:46 pm PDT

Here’s an open thread for anything at all on a Friday night, with a note to let all LGF Pages authors know that there’s been a change to the LGF Pages bookmarklet to fix a small problem, so you should delete your current bookmarklet and reinstall the new one. The new ...

Little Green Footballs, LGF Pages, Bookmarklet, Javascript

Tech Note: Expiration Dates for LGF Polls

Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:17 pm PDT

We're tweaking the poll creation feature of our LGF Pages app, and the latest addition is an expiration date. When someone loads a Page with a poll that's past the date, they'll see a message saying the poll is "closed," and won't be able to vote. (The results will still ...

Little Green Footballs, LGF Pages, Polls, Ajax, Javascript, LGF Blog Engine

Tech Note: Polls for Pages

Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:11 pm PDT

Tonight we're announcing a cool new feature for LGF Pages -- each LGF Page can now contain an Ajax-based poll, just like the ones you've seen on LGF front page articles. The interface is very simple. A poll consists of a "topic," and two or more "options." You can think of ...

LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Ajax, Polls, LGF Pages, Little Green Footballs

Tech Note: Let's Play Tag

Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:38 pm PDT

Today we're unveiling a brand new tagging system for your LGF Pages, making it much easier to create new tags and reuse previously created tags with a personalized autocompletion feature. The LGF Pages posting bookmarklet now uses your personal "tag library" (all the tags you've ever used for your Pages) to ...

LGF Blog Engine, jQuery, Tech Note, Tags, Javascript, LGF Pages, Little Green Footballs

Tech Note: PHP Functions Ported to Javascript

Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:23 pm PDT

If you're a PHP coder who also codes Javascript, here's an insanely useful site where they've converted most of the useful PHP functions into Javascript, keeping the syntax intact: PHP functions in JavaScript. I'm currently using their versions of base64_decode(), utf8_decode(), addslashes(), and str_replace() in the LGF Javascript codebase, and they ...

Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, PHP, Javascript

Tech Note: IE7 Bug Workaround

Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:22 am PDT

I'm glad to announce that the Internet Explorer 7 bug I described yesterday has been worked around, and IE7 no longer crashes when loading LGF. LGF reader "samgak" deserves the hat tip for finding the solution: IE7 has a serious bug in its CSS parser, that strikes when you use a ...

Tech Note, Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, jQuery, Javascript, Internet Explorer, IE7

Tech Note: jQuery 1.6 Installed, All Systems Go

Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:37 pm PDT

jQuery 1.6 has been released, and after testing, it's now installed at LGF. Here's a thread to report any problems or anomalies. I've tested so far in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox in Mac OS, and Internet Explorer 8 in Windows, with no problems. There is a problem several people have reported with ...

Tech Note, Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, jQuery, Javascript, Internet Explorer, IE7

New York Times Paywall Epic Fail

Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:46 pm PDT

If you're going to build a paywall around your web content, you really should try a little harder than this.

New York Times, Paywall, Subscriptions, Blogosphere, Javascript, Security

Tech Note: jQuery 1.5, Take 2

Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:20 pm PST

Tonight I'm pleased to announce that I've reinstalled jQuery 1.5, the latest version of the world's best Javascript framework. I did some debugging and discovered that the problem I experienced earlier this week was caused by a jQuery plugin I was using to fix the transparency in PNG images, for ...

Tech Note, Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, jQuery, Javascript

Tech Note: jQuery 1.5

Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:55 pm PST

Woo hoo! jQuery 1.5 is out! The world's best Javascript framework just got better, with big performance boosts in some of the core jQuery functions used to traverse the Document Object Model. And you gotta love that, if you're a Javascript nerd. As I am. I've installed the new version, so here's ...

Tech Note, Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, jQuery, Javascript

Tech Note: Creating Tweet Buttons Dynamically

Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:04 pm PDT

As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve integrated Twitter's new official “Tweet Button” into the LGF Blog code to see how it compares to our previous Tweet button/retweet count feature, which calls the API at bit.ly to get the count statistics. But I ran into a problem with the Twitter code: it’s intended ...

Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Statistics, Twitter, Tweet Button, Javascript, jQuery

Tech Note: Live PageViews

Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 5:46 pm PDT

Here we have your traditional Sunday evening open thread, with a Tech Note added, all sneaky-like. Today I added live pageview counters to all the front page articles, in the article byline following the category and date. If you watch the "Views" number under the article's title, you'll see it increase ...

Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Statistics, Ajax, Javascript

Tech Note: Retweet Revamp Redux

Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:40 pm PST

Following up on yesterday’s post about our shocking (albeit unintentional) abuse of the bit.ly API, I emailed my contact at bit.ly and let him know about the changes in the LGF Blog code, and got this reply: Thanks! The number of /shorten requests from your account has fallen dramatically. You’re ...

Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Retweet, John Resig, jQuery, Programming, Ajax, Twitter

Tech Note: Retweet Code Revamp

Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:25 pm PST

Here’s an email I recently received from the URL-shortening service bit.ly, a popular Twitter-related service that I use to automatically shorten URLs for LGF-related tweets. The nice thing about bit.ly (and j.mp, it’s the same service) is that it doesn’t just shorten URLs; if you register an account, it also ...

Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Retweet, John Resig, jQuery, Programming, Ajax, Twitter

Javascript Nerd Heaven: JQuery 1.4 Released

Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 6:37 pm PST

The new version of the best Javascript library on the web is now available: jQuery 1.4. Resig and his posse are claiming significant performance improvements. After testing with the plugins used by LGF I’m going live with the new version. The only problem I encountered was with BlockUI, which the LGF Blog ...

Little Green Footballs, Software, Blog, Javascript, jQuery

Tech Note: 'Return After Posting Reply'

Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:50 pm PST

We have a new feature in our commenting system, requested by several people. If you click the ‘Reply’ or ‘Quote’ buttons on the top line of a comment to post a reply to someone’s comment, you’ll see a new checkbox appear at the top left of the comment posting box, ...

Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Comments, Reply, Javascript

Tech Note: The Retweet Button

Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:22 pm PST

Our latest addition to The Blog codebase is a button to let you “retweet” an LGF article. “Retweeting” is a common way for people to spread interesting content around on Twitter. Since each article is already automatically posted to Twitter, your tweet is prefaced with the standard Twitter syntax to ...

Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Twitter, Javascript, jQuery, John Resig, Retweet

Tech Note: MP3 Audio in Comments

Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:23 am PDT

Stop the presses! New feature alert! OK, maybe you don’t need to actually stop any presses, but we have a new feature in the LGF Comment Engine: embedded MP3 files. It works just like the embedded video feature: you put the URL of an MP3 file on its own line in ...

Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Comments, Audio, Javascript, Media, jQuery

Tech Note: Optimizing LGF Pages

Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:52 pm PDT

I’ve been doing a lot of work on the LGF Blog code behind the scenes, so as always, if a feature doesn’t seem to be working correctly, the first thing to try is reloading the page. Bugs get fixed quickly, so reloading will often make all your problems disappear. Well, ...

Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Spinoff Links, Ajax, jQuery, Javascript

Tech Note: More Embedded Videos in Comments

Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:51 pm PDT

Registered users have been able to embed video clips in their LGF comments for several months; today I added a new format to the list of embeddable video types: Vimeo.com. To embed a Vimeo clip in a comment, go to the page at the Vimeo website that has the video, and ...

Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Comments, Video, Javascript, Media, jQuery

Safari 4's Developer Tools Rock

Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:47 pm PDT

Apple’s recently-released Safari 4 web browser features a major update to its developers’ tools, and if you have anything to do with designing websites you’ll find some of these new abilities very handy. You can inspect the HTML structure of the page and alter CSS properties on the fly, profile ...

Apple, mac os x, Software, Safari, Web Browser, Javascript, Debugger, Developers

Monday Night Lounge

Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:43 pm PDT

Here’s our Monday evening Lizard Lounge thread; if you’re registered and logged in, click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy for this article in “Lounge Mode” — this is the private “chat room” area for the thread, ...

Tech Note, Javascript, jQuery, LGF Spy, Comments, Lizard Lounge, Chat

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