I came across a multi-byte (UTF-8) string this week, that was encoded by the single-byte escaping \x, for example: His nickname was \xE2\x80\x98the Angel\xE2\x80\x99, which is kind of a clich\xC3\xA9 in my opinion. Which represents... » read this

DatePicker v.1.13 is here! Since v1.12 some minor fixes and improvements have found their way to the DatePicker. Some through GitHub (thanks for that), and some communicated through the comments. This update includes: merge of... » read this

Since it's release about a month ago, my DatePicker has received quite some attention. It's been downloaded many times, and during this period several bugs were found and fixed by you all. Additionally, the option to allow an empty... » read this

SVN Externals provide a way to "allow parts of other repositories to be automatically checked-out into a sub-directory". This is useful when you want to use shared libraries that are in SVN themselves. However, RapidSVN... » read this

Javascript has an odd and interesting way of processing the || and && operators. Contrary to what might be expected, their return value is not a boolean(!). Instead, both will always return one of the two parameters passed. OR... » read this