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Sam Loutzenheiser

Nathan — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:38:40 +0000

By watching television one should be able to guess that no matter how old you get, the same bullshit is always waiting to haunt you… but for whatever reason I reasoned that problems, no matter how complex, are in someway bound and finite. And in that reasoning, I came to the subconscience conclusion that if I work all of the existing ones out, I could actually live in peace… Sadly, this assumption was clearly wrong.

Me: I didn’t program multitasking support in revolve ball Me: cos I’m lazy Ed: you didnt ‘ganbaru’ M

Nathan — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:21:42 +0000

Me: I didn’t program multitasking support in revolve ball
Me: cos I’m lazy
Ed: you didnt ‘ganbaru’
Me: oh shit! you’re right

Populate a form with a serialized data string using jQuery

Nathan — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:50:19 +0000

OK, so you know about the great jQuery utility method serialize(), which, when applied to a jQuery object that represents a form, will turn all the form data into a key/value serialized string. Randomly, I was asked if it was possible to do the reverse. jQuery doesn’t have a method like that baked in, so here’s my implementation.

function loadSerializedData(formId, data)
{
	var tmp = data.split('&'), dataObj = {};

	// Bust apart the serialized data string into an obj
	for (var i = 0; i < tmp.length; i++)
	{
		var keyValPair = tmp[i].split('=');
		dataObj[keyValPair[0]] = keyValPair[1];
	}

	// Loop thru form and assign each HTML tag the appropriate value
	$('#' + formId + ' :input').each(function(index, element) {
		if (dataObj[$(this).attr('name')])
			$(this).val(dataObj[$(this).attr('name')]);
	});
}

Is there a better way to do this? Let me know in the comments.

Here’s your obfuscated Javascript for the day

Nathan — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:54:00 +0000

function startsWithVowel(word)
{
return [‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’, ‘u’].indexOf(word[0]) != -1;
}

pixelstyle: Mega Man 2, NES – 1989

Nathan — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:08:11 +0000

pixelstyle:

Mega Man 2, NES – 1989

Phil: I’m taking pictures of the borq queen and her offspring today Me: No kidding? Prepare to be as

Nathan — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:45:13 +0000

Phil: I’m taking pictures of the borq queen and her offspring today
Me: No kidding? Prepare to be assimilated

paraisofriki: Awesome Ico fanart.

Nathan — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:11:24 +0000

paraisofriki: Awesome Ico fanart.

tinycartridge: Nintendo’s headquarters building in Kyoto, Japan, captured by Juri Pozzi Awesome. The

Nathan — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:22:00 +0000

tinycartridge: Nintendo’s headquarters building in Kyoto, Japan, captured by Juri Pozzi Awesome. The

paraisofriki: La cantidad de jueguecillos Flash es ALUCINANTE… aunque dentro de poco los de iOS barr

Nathan — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:17:46 +0000

paraisofriki: La cantidad de jueguecillos Flash es ALUCINANTE… aunque dentro de poco los de iOS barr

herochan: Castle Crashers Portraits - by Johnny Utah Yeah Dan Paladin is awesome.

Nathan — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:12:01 +0000

herochan: Castle Crashers Portraits - by Johnny Utah Yeah Dan Paladin is awesome.