I get some interesting requests from my clients and some of them are head-scratchers. The beauty of Vue.js is that you can implement almost any behavior and do it fairly simply. In this case, the client wanted to swap in a different Act-On form via an...
Here is what I did to prevent a form submit based on a value. In this case, I'm checking to make sure a value is not blank. <form id="myform" method="post" v-on:submit="onSubmit" action="/path/to/form-handler"> methods: { onSubmit: function(e) { ...
A client asked me today if there is any way to have multiple Open Graph (og:image) images in an Act-On landing page, as Act-On only specifies one image in their SEO section. I searched around a bit, but then I realized that it's actually quite...
I recently needed to pull in a third party form into a page where I was using Vue.js. The form is displayed in an iframe and the adjacent content needed to react to submitting of the form, in this case a header needed to disappear....
I have three plush toys that sit behind my keyboard, Prickles the hedgehog, Spike the stingray, and Scarlet the octopus. They are muses of sorts and help me as I work. Prickles represents persistence and helps me to stay focused even when the work gets difficult....
Vue.js promotes itself as a progressive framework, meaning that you can start small and use as little or as much as you need. I’ve been working on Vue.js projects at both ends, some full fledged projects using vuex, components, and vue-cli, and some projects which...
I started playing with vue.js and used vue-cli to scaffold a new project. It all worked well until I tried npm run build. Then I got the following error: ERROR in build.js from UglifyJs SyntaxError: Unexpected token punc «(», expected punc «:» [build.js:8643,6] It took me a while...
Today I came across a weird bug on a client's wordpress site that broke Visual Composer. The Javascript console was reporting a a.poplight[href^=#] syntax err which seemed to indicate that popups were not working. Indeed, there was a section of the page with tabs that showed...
This morning I got a notification that mysqld was consuming on average 35% of the CPU on one my servers. This was strange because this particular server doesn't even use MySQL regularly. It's there only to serve a rarely used legacy table. A quick look...
I recently created a form where one of the questions was asking for a specific code (specifically, a NAICS code). The problem was that there are almost 20,000 codes to choose from, so it was not practical to use a pulldown. I hit upon the...
I had an old Fedora 8 server running legacy code that I needed to patch for the Shellshock Bash bug. I proved that bash was vunerable by running this command: env X="() { :; } ; echo busted" /bin/bash -c "echo stuff" I saw the word "busted"...
I needed a quick way to check for XML well-formedness in a Perl Nagios script and I found that Test::XML has a test called is_well_formed_xml($xml) that does the job nicely. The only problem was that as part of the Test::More framework, Test::XML outputs test results...
I recently updated a client's Wordpress to 3.9.2. There was a page on that Wordpress that served as the PayPal notify_url and it had been working fine up until I updated. The page simply used a shortcode that I created in the functions.php file to...
I monitor a number of servers using nagios and I always thought it would be neat to be able to have some sort of ambient device light up when there was a critical problem. Yes, I get email and text alerts, and nagios is always up...
I struggled a long time trying to figure out why my nginz + php-fpm setup was not working. I could tell that the gateway was fine and I was getting a HTTP 200 OK response, but the output was blank and there were no illuminating...
My favorite editor on the Mac is Aquamacs (me and Emacs go waaay back) and something that has long been a productivity killer for me was the different actions of C-y and CMD-V. This is due to there being two clipboards, the one belonging to the...
Here's a small bit of javascript that I use in my Sencha Touch projects to find a parent with an id that matches a string. function findParentNodeRegex(regex, childObj) { var testObj = childObj; var count = 1; while(!testObj.id.match(regex)) { //console.log('My...
A simple script to detect when a checkbox is clicked. What you do with once you've detected the click is up to you. <html> <head> <script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script> <script> google.load("jquery", "1.3.2"); google.setOnLoadCallback(function() { $('#agree').click( function() { if($(this).attr('checked')){ ...
I was trying to perform a redirect to generate a CSV file from within a Wordpress admin page using the wp_redirect( ) function, but the problem was that I would always get the dreaded "Cannot modify header information - headers already sent" message. This is...
I was trying to add a small delay into my form submission like so: <form ...