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A few months ago I built a bookmarklet for the app I’m currently developing for the government. A bookmarklet is essentially JavaScript embedded in a link and placed in your browser’s bookmarks folder or toolbar.
The bookmarklet I build is meant to enable analysts to clip content from the web and add it to a [...]
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Avoid annoying session timeouts with an AJAX heartbeat
By: John Brennan on: May 8,2008 In: Code, JavaScriptJeff Atwood made an interesting comment on his blog, Coding Horror, about how to take advantage of AJAX to send sort-of heartbeat back to the server to keep the session from expiring. I think this is a great idea. Getting automatically logged out is extremely annoying (unless of course it’s my bank in [...]
I’m going to keep this short because I’ve been extremely productive today and want to continue this trend for a couple more hours.
I would like to start by saying that I heart Firefox. And probably Joe Hewitt as well, but for developing Firebug.
I love JavaScript development. Although JavaScript may seem very ‘laxed, its [...]
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Code. Design. Explore. is the blog of John Brennan, a web developer/designer, entrepreneur, and avid world traveler. I currently live in Brooklyn, NY.
I am the Co-Founder of OpenAction and lead Product Development. We are a open platform social enterprise that helps organizations engage with donors, share knowledge with other non profits and empower the community to get involved to create positive impact on our planet.
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