Bought 3# of ground turkey at Western Beef, 2 of which immediately went in the pot to cook through, and the remaining 1# went in the freezer with a 1# left over from last purchase. Had 1 medium and 2 smallish onions, so I diced up the 2 small. Either I'm getting better at it, or the onions mellowed sitting in the fridge a few weeks. Cached the cooked-but-not-exactly-browned turkey to a storage container, threw the first diced onion on medium heat while I diced the second, added a couple heaping teaspoon... (...more)

Of course it's handy to have jQuery packaged as a library, but what do you do as a web developer if you're working on multiple projects, some in early developmental stages where you're not even sure if you want or need to use jQuery, other projects actively using it? What I did, what seemed the smart thing to do, is set up each project with a config file, which will get INCLUDE'd via PHP at runtime and which sets paths to central libraries outside the project's directory tree. jQuery's footprint is small b... (...more)

The Validate plugin curated by Jörn Zaefferer wasn't working for me, so I started Googling for jquery "validation without forms". I'm discovering that StackOverflow is in many ways the primary example and use-case reference for a lot of PHP, JS and JQ stuff. Which is... scary. It's like having to dig through a junkyard every time you need to see, well, not whether a wheel has been invented (because I know just about every XAMP wheel I can envision of at this stage of my career has been invented) - but rat... (...more)

I reached a point with jQuery where I was itching to use the Validation plugin. This brought me to a catch-22 situation, because a) "the" Validate plugin attaches itself to the Submit function of a given FORM element, but b) depending on browser, it can be a ridiculous chore to catch and prevent all the places that try to fire Submit actions, and disentangle that from default click actions of a multiplicity of buttons. So I wrapped my whole page in FORM tags and tried replacing the form object's .submit... (...more)

A relatively recent thing that's started happening (since I broke the integral monitor I think) is XP Pro on shadow crashes/locks up, usually while in screen-saver mode, and an error gets written to the system log about it, noting video driver in an infinite loop state. The video adapter is an Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS, driver version 6.14.11.9562, dated 11/20/2009. (Or so Device Manager reports, anyway.) I'm always hesitant to fiddle with video drivers because back in the day, perhaps not long after I go... (...more)