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Get All Active jQuery UI Dialog Windows, then Close 'Em

Posted on 03/21/2013 at 02:36 pm | Viewed 501 times | 0 comments

I had a need to close all active jQuery UI dialogs on the page (yes, I have more than 1 open at a time!). You may think it's as easy as calling $('.ui-dialog').dialog('cose') but you'll throw an error. The way I've figured out how to do it (jquery UI 1.10) is pretty simple, really:

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jQuery UI 1.10 Tabs - Getting Index of Current Tab

Posted on 03/18/2013 at 10:00 pm | Viewed 392 times | 0 comments

I remember being able to get the index of the current tab very easily from jQuery UI, something like ui.panel.index. I couldn't find it in my code and figured out the way to do it with jQuery UI 1.10

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jQuery UI 1.10 Tabs - Using Aria-Controls to Set the URL of a Tab

Posted on 03/18/2013 at 01:00 pm | Viewed 29,618 times | 0 comments

I continue to find things that I overlooked on my upgrade to using jQuery UI 1.10. This time it was the tabs API changes that got me.

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Speeding Up Windows 8 for Web Development (using WAMP)

Posted on 02/25/2013 at 01:33 pm | Viewed 8,226 times | 0 comments

Here is my list of optimizations and changes you can make (and I've had to make) in order to get WAMP (and CakePHP) to run faster on my Windows 8 computer.

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Must Have Tool for Screen Capture: Greenshot

Posted on 02/25/2013 at 12:31 pm | Viewed 863 times | 0 comments

I'm attempting to better document some of the tools and utitlites I use on a daily basis to make worklife just a little bit easier. Something I find myself doing more and more (especially with my new focus on documentation) is taking screen shots.

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