http://blog.johnpencola.com Where streams of thought converge into pools of knowledge. Thu, 05 May 2011 05:54:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/04/10/how-to-decoupling-a-wordpress-plugin-from-your-theme/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/04/10/how-to-decoupling-a-wordpress-plugin-from-your-theme/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:43:52 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=448 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/04/10/how-to-decoupling-a-wordpress-plugin-from-your-theme/feed/ 0 You may have noticed that I recently added a feature to the Liquid Language theme that displays my latest tweet from Twitter where the standard menu is displayed. Hint: Look directly below the pretty header image above ↑ Once I completed … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/03/13/the-truth-about-falsy/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/03/13/the-truth-about-falsy/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:53:55 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=317 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/03/13/the-truth-about-falsy/feed/ 4 Being able to check “truthy” and “falsy” values in JavaScript certainly are nice features of the language, but remember to always take into consideration the following “falsy” values: 0 “” Common Gotcha: Defaulting Arguments Say you have a method that … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/03/05/rethinking-html-drop-down-menus/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/03/05/rethinking-html-drop-down-menus/#comments Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:31:29 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=276 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2011/03/05/rethinking-html-drop-down-menus/feed/ 2 ( Or, the sometimes stubborn persistence of naiveté ) Reflecting This topic has been simmering on my back-burner for quite some time now, I given small taste tests, but I think its due time to reveal it on the menu and … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/01/10/how-to-communicate-over-serial-with-flash-and-arduino/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/01/10/how-to-communicate-over-serial-with-flash-and-arduino/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:54:42 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=158 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/01/10/how-to-communicate-over-serial-with-flash-and-arduino/feed/ 4 Hi there! Back from the holidays with an update on getting started with Arduino and serial communication. In this case communication with the Adobe Flash player. For all the details please watch both Flash videos linked below. You can refer … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/08/06/simple-wordpress-upgrades-with-svn/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/08/06/simple-wordpress-upgrades-with-svn/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:25:29 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=29 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/08/06/simple-wordpress-upgrades-with-svn/feed/ 2 One of the proposed features of the WordPress 2.7 release is quick-upgrading (maybe one-click?). So, until WP 2.7 hits the streets, which probably wont be long since the WP team seems to version-up every month or so now I figured … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/08/03/how-to-access-an-option-in-a-select-list-using-jquery/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/08/03/how-to-access-an-option-in-a-select-list-using-jquery/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:01:25 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=34 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/08/03/how-to-access-an-option-in-a-select-list-using-jquery/feed/ 0 I had to do some documentation-digging to figure this one out. If you want to be able to have access to <option>’s within an HTML <select> list and fool with their properties, here is one way to do it. Hopefully … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/03/06/how-to-pull-a-directory-with-scp/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/03/06/how-to-pull-a-directory-with-scp/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:23:29 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/03/06/how-to-pull-a-directory-with-scp/ Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/03/06/how-to-pull-a-directory-with-scp/feed/ 0 Just a quickie (and the first post in a series of How-To’s)… I’m sure many of you know the syntax for this but since I only ever used SCP and PSCP to push files, pulling them was a bit new … Continue reading →