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Front-end development – CodeNinja.ie Talk

As one of the workshops for this year’s CodeNinja.ie competition, I gave a talk on front-end web development. It looks at some of current trends in front-end development, my workflow, and interesting front-end technologies (especially those of use to the students taking part in competition).

Bringing Bizcamp to Galway, Sept 2010

For the first time, Bizcamp is being run in Galway this September 11th. I’ve been to those run in Dublin and Limerick in the past, and they’ve been a worthwhile trip. It can be a great place to meet mix of like-minded people – from those who have been through the mill of setting up… | Read on »

Replace the Euro Symbol (€) using Javascript (jQuery)

I spent a while on Friday searching for a way to replace the Euro symbol (€) in content pulled from a text area, using Javascript (jQuery). As it took me some time to track down an answer, here it is: var theContent = $(‘#theTextArea’).val().replace(/\u20ac/g, ‘Euro’); This replaces using a global search to find instances of… | Read on »