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Using Prototype to Access Form Data
Prototype has a powerful API for accessing and manipulating the Document Object Model, A.K.A the DOM. The following code will let you interact with a simple web form. Suppose we have a form that contains hidden/or locked inputs and they need to be update...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Using Selenium to Drive Firefox Browser for Web Automation
There are a lot of practical uses for automating user behavior in a browser. Everything from testing your web application to logging into Twitter and auto following people. But first you have to install the tools. Here is everything you need to run yo...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/09/2017
Using jQuery and Prototype Javascript Together with jQuery.noConflict();
To use the jQuery javascript framework in a Rails application, that also uses the Prototype framework for the same application, you'll need to reassign the $() function for jQuery to another variable. This is very simple to do. Just make sure to include t...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Open Files in TextMate 2 with A Single Click
To open files with a single click from the file browser inside of TextMate 2 run this command from the terminal defaults write com.macromates.TextMate.preview fileBrowserSingleClickToOpen -bool true And to turn it off defaults write com.macro...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/04/2013
How to Get GPS Location Information from a Photo or Movie with Swift and UIImagePickerController
This code assumes you're using the UIImagePickerController. If not you will need to get an image url another way. But, If you are using UIImagePickerControllerDelegate then it will supply the asset's url in the `info` dictionary . From the asset's url...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/11/2018