Strav's blog

I'm rewriting a web application, converting it to use a REST backend and updating the frontend to take advantage of new web trends including jQuery, CSS3, AJAX, etc. I have way too many windows open for information on these items so I'm going to create a big post to record them and close down some of these windows.

jQuery

• jQuery core
• Using jQuery Core
• jQuery ajax
• jQuery for Absolute Beginners (Video Tutorial)
• 7 Things I Wish I Had Known About jQuery
• ModalPopup in jQuery
• Using jQuery to get XML and put in HTML table
• Using jQuery .each to loop over XML file
• XML Parsing with jQuery
• Use jQuery to Retrieve Data From an XML File
• XML Parsing With jQuery
• XML parsing using jQuery
• jQuery.ajax parse XML
• JavaScript AJAX call a PHP that returns XML
• $( document ).ready()
• What is the best back button jQuery plugin? [closed]
• jQuery hashchange
• jQuery hashchange example
• jQuery hashchange forked to work with current jQuery
• Using Location Hash To Enable BACK/FORWARD Navigation
• jquery.history.js VS jquery-hashchange
• history.js project page
• How do I actually use history.js on my site
• Is this a proper way to use History.js?
• using history.js so that i can deep link on a website
• jQuery.getJSON()
• 55 jQuery Form Plugins To Download And Use
• Best Free jQuery Form Plugins to Improve User Experience
• jFormer
• Pass request headers in a jquery AJAX GET call
• History API and History.js Back Button issue
• JQuery & history.js back button not working
• Preferred client side routing solution?
• jquery-hashchange
• jQuery History
• jQuery BBQ Implementation (video)
• 10 jQuery History/Back Button Plugins
• How to change state without triggering statechange in history.js?
• Working with Cookies in jQuery
• jQuery - How to PUT JSON via Ajax?
• Ajax Project - Populating a Form

jQuery UI

• jQuery ui dialog change title after load-callback
• Dialog Widget

jQuery datePicker

• jQuery date picker plug-in
• Datepicker
• How to customize the Date Picker
• Datepicker Widget

REST

• REST API - A Simple PHP Tutorial
• Using HTTP Metnods for RESTful Services
• Signing and Authenticating REST Requests (Amazon API Documentation)
• Private REST API with Ajax Call
• A Beginners Guide to HTTP and REST
• Learn REST: A Tutorial
• htaccess Rule to Tidy Up REST API requests
• Passing complex objects into a WCF Rest Service

CSS

• multiple elements with similar css
• How to Center a DIV Block Using CSS
• How to position a table at the center of div horizentally & vertically
• CSS Vertical Align: Divs
• Learn CSS Layout - Position
• Learn CSS Layout - Position Example
• CSS - Extending class properties
• How to Center an Absolutely Positioned Element Using CSS
• CSS fixed width in a span
• Simple way to vertically align a nested div?
• make div's height expand with its content
• Clearing floats
• CSS - How to center nested divs?
• Justify elements using jQuery and CSS
• How do you easily horizontally center a div using CSS?

Handlebars

• handlebars array of json object
• Handlebars.js Tutorial: Learn Everything About Handlebars.js
• Best Practices When Working With JavaScript Templates
• JavaScript Templating with Handlebars
• Is it possible to access jquery functions through a templating library like Handlebars?
• jQuery Autobars Project Page (Handlebars Template Loader)
• Handling handlebars.js like a pro

SPA

• Single Page Applications (SPA) - John Papa
• SPA and the Single Page Myth - John Papa
• Singe Page App Homebrew
• Architecture for single page application (JavaScript)

PHP

• Simple XML to JSON with PHP
• json_encode
• Correct content type HTTP header for JSON

JavaScript

• How can I create a two dimensional array in JavaScript?
• Beautiful JavaScript: Easily Create Chainable (Cascading) Methods for Expressiveness

Online Tools

• XML to JSON and JSON to XML converter
• JSON Formatter & Validator
• jsfiddle
• XML Formatter
• iconfinder

AOE

• Using ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) On Ubuntu 12.04 (Initiator And Target) - Page 2
• Using ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) On Ubuntu 12.04 (Initiator And Target)
• AoE module doesn't work with vblade
• WinAoE
• Windows Diskless with AoE
• Use AoE to Build Your Own SAN

iSCSI

• Using iSCSI On Ubuntu 10.04 (Initiator And Target)

RAID

• Software RAID HOWTO
• Ubuntu – Howto Easily Setup RAID 5 with LVM
• mdadm GUI - A graphical interface to Linux software RAID via Webmin
• 5 Tips To Speed Up Linux Software Raid Rebuilding And Re-syncing
• Script to tune mdadm raid5
• A script to tune RAID (should work with any type of RAID)
• RAID 5 Rebuild Time?
• 5 Tips To Speed Up Linux Software Raid Rebuilding And Re-syncing

HP HDX Dragon

• HP HDX 9000 Dragon owners lounge part 1
• HP HDX 9000 Dragon owners lounge part 2
• page 100 post
• Touch Pad Disable Board (video)
• SSD Information
• [Drivers] HP dv6-2XXX / dv7-3XXX / dv8 / HDX16 / HDX18 (INTEL)
• Base install load sequence
• HP Pavilion HDX9494NR Entertainment Notebook PC support
• X9000 CPU Upgrade Information

Perl Web Server

• How do I write an HTTP server in Perl?
• HTTP::Daemon - a simple http server class
• HTTP::Daemon - a simple http server class
• GUI with HTTP::Daemon
• LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
• Pre-forking HTTP Daemon In Perl
• HTTP::Daemon::Threaded - Apartment threaded HTTP::Daemon-based server
• Perl Background processes in Windows
• Win32::Process - Create and manipulate processes.
• Perl Background processes in Windows
• Perl HTTP server
• Pizza calculator
• HTTP::Status - HTTP Status code processing

Perl Encryption

• Encryption using perl core functions only

Perl IPC

• perlipc

I recently set up a SVN server to manage the eGiveIt codebase. Here are some details and links that helped.

• How to setup a Subversion (SVN) server on GNU/Linux - Ubuntu
• Install svn on ubuntu 12.04
• Subversion
• Apache SVN Configuration