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Recent Blog Comments By Eric Hynds

• Your jQuery Selector Context Can Be A jQuery Object

  Posted on Mar 15, 2010 at 3:24 PM

  My feeling is that using a jQuery object as the context argument only hinders readability, and the performance will be slightly worse (however negligible) because of that extra internal conversion. I sometimes see $("expr", cachedjQueryObject) being interpreted as $("expr").andSelf(), rather tha... read more »

• Using jQuery With Custom XHTML Attributes And Namespaces To Store Data

  Posted on Jan 9, 2009 at 11:44 AM

  Yeah, that's an issue with my JSON approach. I'm not very familiar with security issues around JavaScript or best practices, but to convert JSON to an object I use eval(), and I've always been taught evaluating in any language is a huge no-no and presents a security risk.... read more »

• Using jQuery With Custom XHTML Attributes And Namespaces To Store Data

  Posted on Jan 9, 2009 at 10:31 AM

  I've found what works best for me is to store any custom variables in the name attribute in JSON format. I don't know if this is a good way to do it, but it's pretty darn customizable, scalable, and consistent. for example, I use the dialog UI fairly liberally in most apps I make. So i'll... read more »

• Turning On Multiple Statements In ColdFusion 8 MySQL 4/5 Datasource

  Posted on May 7, 2008 at 7:30 PM

  So this means multiple queries can be run in one cfquery, delimited by (I assume) a semicolin?... read more »