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POST 405 (Method Not Allowed)
I was attempting to XHR a simple plain text file. MooTools sets the default request method to post. On my local testing development machine, it wasn’t a problem, but out in the wild on my 1and1 server, apparently post cannot be used to get a text file. I recived this error from the console. POST [...]
Replace Line Endings in JavaScript
I was bringing text in via XHR and I needed to replace the natural \n line endings with a true <br /> break line so that it would be legitimate HTML when injected into the DOM. It’s pretty easy, but you just need to remember: replace returns! Since there are multiple versions of line endings, [...]
Factorial in Java Script
A factorial is a series of integers multiplied together. You might remember 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * … * (n-1) * n. That’s a factorial. Traditionally, a factorial can be presented in just about any programming language easily with a tiny bit of recursion. The real problem though is the [...]
My First MooTools Presentation
On Thursday, May 27th, I gave my very first MooTools presentation to an eagerly awaiting AP Computer Science class. The presentation was in three parts, the first a general overview of javascript itself, the second a micro-guide to MooTools glowing finesse with elements, events and effects, and finally a complete section on MooTools classes to [...]
missing argument 1 when calling function mutator.call
I’ve been doing some hefty MooTools development lately, and I ran into a odd ball error in that endeavor. I put it aside for a while, ignoring it while I worked on other code. Eventuallly, I had to face it though, so here are my remarks in that journey. First, the error in question is [...]