Jonathan Markevich

Author: Jonathan

  • Backbone dynamic elements

    I recently discovered Backbone’s setElement function. What it allowed me to do was dynamically create a view’s container in Javascript and transfer/assign the view and its events to the new element. Using jQuery within the view initialize event: this.el = $(‘<div id=”\’newView\'”></div>’); this.setElement(this.el); $(‘#content’).append(this.el); I manipulated the this.el attribute directly, without using an interim variable,…

  • iWatch

    The rumor mills are ablaze. Two things bother me about this though. 1) available later this year, and 2) prototype has battery life issues. Apple, as a rule, doesn’t let these two kinds of things go together. Battery life is almost certainly an early design goal. “Later this year” would mean “production now”. If something…

  • RealRacing 3

    I, like many other racing fans, eagerly awaited Firemint’s latest offering in the mobile offering, RealRacing 3. I bought both previous games in the series (even got RR2 for two different devices). I was excited when I saw the videos, and excited to know it would be free! So when it was released, I kept…

  • iTunes (Windows) Podcast fix

    iTunes is pretty decent for Podcasts. In fact, Lifehacker readers rated it the best.  However, it has some shortcomings, to be sure. The one that annoyed me the most is if you have a RSS feed of say, PDFs or ePubs like the magazines at jw.org, you can subscribe in iTunes whereby it will happily auto-download…

  • Local DNS on dd-wrt

    My Linksys N400 started getting slow and completely stopped responding this morning.  The only way I could get back into it was with a 30-second pin reset. I lost all of my DHCP reservations, of course, but those were a lot easier to restore than local DNS. I set my local search domain to “lan”…

  • Gunnars Glasses

    I got myself some Gunnars glasses on a rather good sale the other day, after being a bit curious about them. I use a computer all day, every day, and I want to both protect my eyes and maximize their use. They’re not the ideal shape I would have preferred (I would have preferred a…

  • REST Authentication

    I did some research the other day to secure my REST API using The Slim framework. I found a tidy little way to force HTTP authentication (basic, in this case) using this article as well as the PHP manual. I get the client to provide the user name and password, then I can look up…

  • PSN Plus

    I got a 50% off deal on a 3-month subscription to Playstation Plus the other day. There was one or two freebies that I was interested in (Quantum Conundrum!). I discovered that I again have access to games I downloaded when I had a free trial a year ago or so. That tells me if…

  • OmniFocused

    Last week there was a remarkable sale on OmniFocus, both for the Mac and the iPad (but not the iPhone for some reason). I had been waiting for an opportunity like this so I leapt at the opportunity to add to my vast collection of todo/task managers. I think this is the one I really…

  • Mountain Lion

    I installed the latest OS X release, not much sticks out as significantly different.  Little things I noticed: Safari 6 Offline reading list – I only use Mac desktops, so no big deal here.  I also use Pocket for my iOS devices. No RSS anymore – reading, I don’t care but I really miss extracting…