Fix: BlackBerry SDK / Ripple Emulator not downloading

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Robin

For quite some time I’ve been trying to get a hold of the latest BlackBerry SDK from their website. Without any luck.

Today, for the first time in a couple of months I’ve tried to download the SDK again since I recently reinstalled my development environment. Again, without any luck. After sending a support request to BlackBerry (Research In Motion is officially called Blackberry nowadays) I was too impatient to wait for an answer and started to ‘debug’ my problem until one possible reason was left: my current location.
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Capitalize the first letter of a string in javascript – the fast way

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Robin

There is only one truly fast way of capitalizing strings in Javascript using a mixture of string manipulation methods.
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Select random rows in Propel

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Robin

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At this moment, PropelORM has no easy to use preset way of getting random rows from a table. After a good old RTFM-session, I finally found out how to tackle this issue.
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How to reset an HTML form with jQuery

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Robin

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That’s easy, once you found out how it works.
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Create and download Plesk backups from the command line

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Robin

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For a while now, I was looking for a way to both create and download Plesk backups right from my Terminal.
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Finding text nodes with jQuery

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Robin

When traversing the DOM using jQuery, using for example the .find() method, jQuery only lets you select HTML DOM elements and no text nodes. Sometimes you do want to include these text nodes in your searches. Here’s an example how you could do just that by using .firstChild(true).
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jQuery Chosen custom events and how to use them

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Robin

A short write-up about the custom events jQuery Chosen triggers and how to make use of these events in your own code. jQuery Chosen is an awesome plugin to customize the default browser select elements. It’s super easy to use, but one thing’s missing: documentation of it’s features.
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