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Dec 09

FoxyCart: Replacing A Cart Item

function add_pre_process() {
    //Find the id of the existing registration in the cart, if it does exist
    $.each(fc_json.products, function(key, product) {
        if(product.name=="Registration") {
            // Do the remove request, with parameter quantity=0
            $.ajax({
                async: [...]

10
Dec 09

Web Development Frameworks: Developing For vs. Developing With

I’ve been hunting for a web development framework for a few months. Back in the summer I was immersed in CSS and javascript, just sticking with my tried and tested server-side techniques. Using the TinyButStrong (TBS) template class I could put together a highly organized dynamic website pretty quickly. In retrospect it seems that I’d [...]

04
Dec 09

I Undressed Her by Mistake

Freud’s Psychopathology of Everyday Life reads a lot like today’s popular science books. In particular it reminds me of Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks, with its conversational style.
Much of the pleasure is the spectacle of all these Viennese doctors revelling in the exciting new theories of psychoanalysis, sharing their little anecdotes. Writing about inadvertent actions and [...]

03
Dec 09

Chemicals and Complexes

As I wrote in the last post, I’m a tangle of complexes. Why didn’t I know this before? Lately I’ve been examining how my own self-awareness has changed over the years. I suppose you could call this self-awareness-awareness.
For years I would sometimes have bad moods of a particular kind, and during those moods my thoughts [...]

02
Dec 09

Web Development and Chopping Garlic

For this post it was a toss-up between:
1. My observations on Freud’s Psychopathology of Everyday Life (boiling down to my realization that I’m a tangle of complexes, but also that I’m actually doing alright and won’t be running to an analyst any time soon)
2. A vague and geeky ramble over the broken, scarred and unstable [...]