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Disabling auto-formatting of telephone numbers by the Skype Browser Plugin

05 Jul 2010 0 Comments

If your website displays telephone numbers, visitors who have Skype installed might see a broken layout.

button, call via skype, coding, javascript, jquery, plugin, skype, skype browser plugin, skype toolbar, web dev

Using Regular Expressions – Part 3 of 3 – Examples

21 Jan 2010 3 Comments

Following on Geekology’s previous posts on Regular expressions (Regex Overview and Regex in PHP), the following is a list of regular expression examples for general use.

pcre, perl, posix, preg_filter, preg_grep, preg_last_error, preg_match, preg_match_all, preg_quote, preg_replace, preg_replace_callback, preg_split, regular expression

12 Tips to improve your jQuery code

29 Oct 2009 26 Comments

jQuery is a library that greatly simplifies how developers use JavaScript. These tips aim to point out some advanced tricks that can be used with jQuery code to make it more efficient.

ajax, chaining, console, dom, event delegation, firebug, google, javascript, jquery, logging, minify, selectors, shorthand

JavaScript Best Practices by Christian Heilman

28 Oct 2009 4 Comments

This post contains a presentation of well thought-out JavaScript tips and best practices by Christian Heilmann.

coding, javascript, tips & tricks

best practices, dom, javascript, loops, modularity, standards, style

Using Regular Expressions – Part 1 of 3 – Overview

12 Oct 2009 3 Comments

Regex can be used to search for simple or extremely complex patterns through blocks of text, and most programming languages and tools can interpret and use it.

alternation, atomic, egrep, ereg, grep, literal, metacharacters, pattern, preg, regex, regexp, regular expression, search

Google Chrome Frame changes Internet Explorer into Google Chrome!

28 Sep 2009 1 Comment

Google recently released Chrome Frame, an open source plugin that injects the Google Chrome Browser’s HTML (Webkit) and JavaScript (V8) engines into IE6, IE7 and IE8.

chrome, google, ie6, ie7, ie8, internet explorer, metatag, v8, webkit

Subdomain tracking update to the geekGa.js jQuery plugin for Google Analytics

26 Sep 2009 3 Comments

geekology.co.za uses a custom jQuery plugin to load ga.js and track pageviews & events. This plugin has been updated to also track views and events on subdomains.

coding, javascript, seo, tools, web dev

analytics, extension, function, ga.js, google, google analytics, jquery, plugin, subdomain, tracking

Speeding up Google Analytics load times with a jQuery plugin

05 Aug 2009 67 Comments

Google Analytics requires JavaScript code to be embedded in a page body, but geekology.co.za uses a custom jQuery plugin to load ga.js and track pageviews & events.

analytics, extension, function, ga.js, google, google analytics, jquery, plugin, tracking

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Disabling auto-formatting of telephone numbers by the Skype Browser Plugin

Using Regular Expressions – Part 3 of 3 – Examples

12 Tips to improve your jQuery code

JavaScript Best Practices by Christian Heilman

Using Regular Expressions – Part 1 of 3 – Overview

Google Chrome Frame changes Internet Explorer into Google Chrome!

Subdomain tracking update to the geekGa.js jQuery plugin for Google Analytics

Speeding up Google Analytics load times with a jQuery plugin

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