I was browsing through last month’s issue of .net magazine when I came across an article by Remy Sharp about HTML5. I must admit that I was a bit out of the loop with regards to this new version of HTML5 and where it was at, and the reality surprised me.
Interesting article over on Six Revisions on the history of the internet.
Well worth a read.
I’ve made a few tweaks and configurations to this blog site, as you can no doubt see. The main change is the expanded navigation, with the inclusion of a contact form and a resources for web developers page, which will be added to when I find something worthwhile.
I’ve also made a colour change to iandevlin.com, changing the background colour from grey to white in order to fit with the look of this blog.
Feel free to let me know what you think!
Just a quick and simple post, that’s possibly nothing new to you, but it might be useful to others.
If you want to perform a check on what a string starts with in Javascript, you can use the substring(startpos, endpos) method, startpos is a required parameter and indicates where in the string to start the extraction, endpos is optional and indicates where the extraction is to end (if not supplied, it will extract to the end of string).
For example, to check if a string starts with ‘ABC’ you would do the following:
var mystring = "ABCDEF";
var text = mystring.substring(0, 3);
if (text == 'ABC') alert("string starts with ABC!');
Note that if the string being extracted from is shorter than the amount to extract, e.g. using the above example if mystring = 'AB', the extraction will still work, but in this case text = 'AB'.
Loving the celebratory Google logo on google.de to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the demise of the Berlin Wall.
On November the 9th, 1989, the Berlin Wall was finally breached, with travel restrictions removed, thousands of East Berliners poured across the border and into the West. Today marks the 20th anniversary of this historic moment which Berlin is celebrating.