In this post I’ll demonstrate how to create a custom drop down menu, that has the added bonus of closing when you click outside of the menu. If you just want to see the custom drop down menu working with click outside. You can view source (everythings on the page including css and js) Anyway … Read more
When looking at how to draw a line at a specific angle on a Canvas Element using Javascript, I couldn’t find anything that was really short and sweet (really I just wanted a copy and paste), I had to investigate the maths abit todo it and understand it, but I won’t go into that here. … Read more
Today I needed to see what javascript was triggered on a change event (when a checkbox was clicked), my go to for seeing what event is triggered is Chrome (Event Listener Breakpoints). update: Doh, realised you can do it just by clicking control->change , see screenshot. old way I did it I selected mouse click … Read more
This is the first of a bunch of posts I’m going to write on programming tips and best practices. This one is about Anonymous functions ( a sometimes useful technique if your going to use in one place and throw away ). And thats all well and good, however these make code more difficult to … Read more
Recently I was working on a Laravel application with some ajax, and I was getting a 419 error after firing an Ajax call to a Laravel controller. Laravel requires a token to be sent on some types of requests (POST being one of them), this is to prevent Cross site request forgery ( e.g. a … Read more
Recently I needed to develop a Shortcode that would display a form, this blog post details what I did. I used Ajax ( which seems the best way to add forms to shortcodes, but I’d welcome any input from other developers on your approach). So without further ado lets get on with adding a form to … Read more