Don’t believe me? Check it out:
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Automatically Track Outgoing Links in Google Analytics with Javascript
I’m currently reading the O’Reilly Google Analytics book, so of course I’m going to sandbox some stuff (albeit not here at this site.) One of the first things I seized on was the ability to track outgoing links by calling the urchinTracker() function onclick. Taking a few minutes out of my morning I put this together:
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The difference between javascript's getElementById() and getElementsByName()
The above question is one I’ve gotten in my logs a couple of times. I don’t actually answer it anywhere on the site, so I figured I might as well answer it here. For some strange reason, in my mellowed old age, I’m all about helping and I haven’t written about web technologies in about a month, so it can’t hurt.
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JSON Feeds For Fun and Profit Part 2 – Callbacks with Twitter
In my first exploration of the JSON data interchange format, I used it in its most basic way possible. I attached a script (from delicious) to a page and simply used the built-in object created by their implementation to generate an unordered list of my recent del.icio.us posts. While it showed how easy it is to use the O, a handy, structured, Javascript Object, provided by JSON, it didn’t really illustrate how to manipulate the page with new data after page load. That is, after all, a very now thing to do, so it’s kind of important. This article will examine how to dynamically load a JSON feed and how to get data out of Twitter and into a usable form using a callback.
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JSON Feeds For Fun and Profit, Part One- Del.icio.us makes it easy
Confession time: I’ve never actually worked with a JSON feed.
No, really.
I know what you’re thinking… Yes, you’re right. I’ve built a bunch of Ajax-y components and one full blown application over the past two years.
No, in light of that it doesn’t make any sense that I haven’t used JSON before.
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