Author Archives: brad

First iPhone App – LDS Gems

By brad | Published: May 8, 2010
After a bit of work, I finally got my first iPhone app on the App store. It’s nothing extraordinary, but was a learning experience for the most part. It’s called LDS Gems, and is an easier way to manage, read, and share the quotes and stories provided by the LDS church at http://gems.lds.org. I [...]
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Doctrine Model Hydration

By brad | Published: March 30, 2010
I was just deep into figuring out what was causing a certain bug and wanted to take the time to share my findings. When working with Doctrine we were having some scattered issues of models that we had loaded from the database, modified, and then they were getting stomped on by the database again [...]
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Getting keycode values in Javascript

By brad | Published: September 16, 2009
I’ve had to work with getting user input values based off of the keycode from the event a few times, and figured I’d throw together some of that functionality in case anyone else is wrestling with this functionality. Below is a simple “keycode” object that has a few utility functions, and maps of values [...]
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Scoping Javascript closures in loops

By brad | Published: January 23, 2009
It must have been something I ate, cause this is like the third post in 2 days I think! This is a quick one, but super handy to know if you don’t already. There is semi-common problem I run into, and it has to do with scoping of closures inside of loops. [...]
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Browser autocomplete and keyup events

By brad | Published: January 23, 2009
Browser oddities are nothing new, but I came across one today that I haven’t heard about before, and couldn’t seem to find many comments about on the interwebs. To get to the gist of it, when the native browser autocomplete functionality pops up for a text input, it also triggers a keyup event for [...]
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