Tag: Javascript

Styling visited links for payformystay.com

I wanted to change the text of visited links on payformystay.com, using CSS. In the offer summary, I wanted to change the link text "Check it out!" with "Check it out again!" after the user had indeed checked out the offer. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 9 years ago, on March 01, 2013, at 22:03 | Comments closed

How to test payformystay.com

I haven't got much experience when it comes to testing web applications. Instead (and more so out of apathy than belief), I've always adhered to the ad-hoc test approach. However, the usage of pure Posgres unit tests back when I worked on a complicated investment database with Halfgaar did teach me the advantages of test-driven development. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 10 years ago, on May 19, 2012, at 13:05 | 5 comments

Safari: don’t give gzipped content a .gz extension

Yesterday, while helping Caloe with the website for her company De Buitenkok, I came across the mother of all stupid bugs in Safari. Me having recently announced payformystay.com, I loaded it up in Apple's hipster browser only to notice that the CSS wasn't loaded. Oops! Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on January 16, 2012, at 00:01 | Comments closed

jQuery plugin for auto-growing textareas

With my big blog redesign, I wanted a auto-growing comment box. In the past, I've written a nice auto-resize textarea JavaScript function which does just that, but with jQuery belonging to the standard equipment of WordPress these days, I thought it would be cooler to find a nice jQuery plugin to do this. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on February 04, 2010, at 21:02 | Comments closed

www.stichting-ecosafe.org

Stichting EcoSafe is a Dutch foundation for the safe-keeping of the funds that are necessary for the maintenance of hardwood plantations. In July of 2006, together with Johan Ockels, I created a website for the Foundation. Johan was responsible for the organization of the whole process. This went very smooth and the website ended up being an emblem of simplicity and clarity. That's why I wanted to blog a bit about it now, even though there are a few things that I'd probably end up doing different if I were to start from scratch. [There's actually a disturbing number of things for which this is true, I'm coming to notice.] Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on September 16, 2009, at 12:09 | 1 comment

Automatic resizing of an HTML <textarea> element

Today, while improving the Rails GUI for the Sicirec database, I was struck once again by how annoyingly small <textarea>s can be when having the user type lots of text. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on February 18, 2007, at 20:02 | 4 comments