Category Archives: Technology & Code

Technology, gadgetry and code are just plain awesome, you can’t really deny it. So when I come across something that excites me or makes my life easier or simply gives us a view as to a very possible future that we might be moving towards, I can’t help but share it with the rest of you here on the CodeUnit of Craig.

Using jQuery with other Javascript Libraries: jQuery.noConflict

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Craig Lotter

You’ll often find yourself using frameworks that may be running a number of different javascript libraries such as MooTools, jQuery and ProtoType, which leaves you with the interesting quandry of what to do with the shared $ variable that most libraries tend to have a different use for. Continue reading →

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How to Add a Click-through Event on a jQuery Flot Graph

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Craig Lotter

Today I quickly want to touch on adding a click-through event to a Flot graph, in other words, force the browser to redirect to a new location depending on where on the graph the user clicks. Continue reading →

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How to Add a Tooltip to a Flot jQuery Graph

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Craig Lotter

Flot is a fantastic jQuery-driven graphing engine that is extremely flexible and capable of producing some wonderfully looking and interactive graphs. Today’s quick tutorial looks at how one can add a tooltip to a flot-produced graph. Continue reading →

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jQuery: Load Remote Content into Current Page

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Craig Lotter

The well-established javascript library jQuery comes bundled with a neat little function that handles loading remote content directly into the current page’s DOM model, namely the little Ajax load function. Continue reading →

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WordPress Fix for Schedule Missed Posts

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Craig Lotter

After upgrading successfully to Wordpress 2.9 the other day, I was mortified to find that all of a sudden all of my scheduled posts were being missed one after the other, and the only solution to actually force publish them was to hit the Quick Edit option on the posts listing page and change the each post’s status to published. Continue reading →

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