The Hairiest

The Hairiest

  • Name: Richard Key
  • Favorite Languages: C#, PHP, HTML, Javascript
  • Website: http://www.switchonthecode.com
  • Location: Tempe, AZ
  • About Me:
    I love programming, and I love trying out new technologies and concepts even more. I tend to lean towards web development as I see the web being the future of applications in general, but I can also cook up a mean windows application from time to time as well. Overall I am experienced in ASP, PHP, C#, and Javascript. I am also well versed in the basic web technologies such as XHTML and CSS, but that is a no brainer to me when talking about web development.

Published Tutorials (63)

Recent Comments

  • Introducing the Pulse Developer Preview
    12/16/2011 - 12:15

    It's a Megaman 3 Remix by noisewaves from 8Bit collective.
    https://8bc.org/music/noisewaves/MEGAMAN+3+REEEEEMIX/

  • Simple AJAX - PHP and Javascript
    10/24/2011 - 10:04

    Hello Loki. What you are looking for is a session, which are used for keeping data in-between pages, and in turn also in-between page refreshing. Before you go PHP crazy though, I suggest reading up a bit on page life-cycles and considerations to take when using sessions. They can be a very complex beast and opens up a lot more security concerns and have the potential to become bloated very quickly.

    All that being said, sessions are what you are looking for in this situation.

  • Snippet Tutorial - Short Circuiting
    08/12/2011 - 10:30

    Yeah, short-circuiting has been extremely valuable in my day-to-day programming. It not only saves on a few extra lines, but it makes you step back and think about the order in which you do things.

  • jQuery UI - Using Dialogs for Image Popups
    05/06/2010 - 19:11

    Excellent Point Rixius. As a personal rule of thumb, I do this because scope can often times be tricky in Javascript, as some of our tutorials touch on. But after a short test I find that the scope of our variable is just fine in this case. Thanks for pointing that out.

  • C++ & Lua - Function Arguments
    10/22/2009 - 13:03

    Well, if we talk about real world applications here, Lua by itself is hardly ever used. What that statement means it that Lua's power comes from it's ability to easily connect with other languages. For example, World of Warcraft uses Lua, but the interpreter is built into the WoW core. I have also used some small game engines that use Lua as a scripting component, again, using Lua in conjunction with other languages. You don't really see a Lua game, one which is strait Lua script.

    This is opposed to a scripting Language such as JavaScript which you can really just start programming away without any need to fool around with plugging it into another language.

  • jQuery Snippet - Useful Form Selectors
    09/10/2009 - 15:56

    That is interesting to know, thanks a bunch Nathan.

  • HDMI Cable for $0.21 ($3.19 shipped) on Amazon
    06/12/2009 - 07:52

    What? That's crazy. There has to be something up with this. Or how about the TV that goes with it for an extra $0.16?

  • How to Build a Star Ratings jQuery Plugin
    06/12/2009 - 07:48

    Hey Brandon, did you know you could have created a div like so: $('<div></div>'). And you can actually add attributes and whatnot as well.

  • How to Build a jQuery Treeview
    06/11/2009 - 09:32

    Code has been fixed to use classes rather than non-unique IDs.

  • Best way to output HTML?
    04/24/2009 - 10:55

    Ah, good point Red man.

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