How to use localStorage to remember form values
Since finishing my last post, I’ve been wanting to work on a way of implementing the concepts. Let’s say you have a long form (like a job application) or a form you would be filling out a lot (like...
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How do you sign a PhoneGap app?
This is a quick thing. When you build an app in PhoneGap Build, it asks for a keystore file. So, how do you get one? Here is the command for on the mac. keytool -genkey -v -keystore [Name for the...
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An unofficial Security Now episode explorer
Well, I finished another PhoneGap Build app. This is another “Joe scratches his own itch” app. It’s an app that shows the entire Security Now back catalog and lets you browse through the various...
View ArticleData binding and templating with Rivets
In my day job, I have been writing a lot of JavaScript. The system already heavily uses jQuery and the addition of Angular would have been a tough sell. I started to look for an alternative to handle...
View ArticleHow to use FileReader() to generate data URLs
These days, the lines between the web and the local environment can be very blurry. There is a web API called FileReader() that nicely adds to that blurriness. It lets you asynchronously read the...
View ArticleGenerating random numbers with the Web Cryptography API
The W3C has been working on a Web Cryptography API for a while, now. The current version (11 December 2014) is their “Candidate Recommendation”. As such, I would not necessarily consider it fully...
View ArticleHow to generate keys with the Web Cryptography API
I have been playing around with the Web Cryptography API a lot lately. My most recent post was about getRandomValues(). I wanted to take a moment to investigate two more methods: generateKey() and...
View ArticleRivets 101: Data binding and templating revisited
Last year, I wrote the post “Data binding and templating with Rivets“. I decided to write a more indepth three-post arch on Rivets.js to accompany the demos that I recently posted to Github. This...
View ArticleRivets 101: Showing and hiding elements
In our previous riveting Rivets.js post, we revisited data binding and templating. In addition to that, Rivets can handle showing and hiding elements within the DOM. Within this post, we are going to...
View ArticleRivets 101: Working with JSON APIs
In part one and part two of this series, we looked at how rivets handles data binding and then how to use rivets to show and hide elements on the page. In this post, things are going to get a little...
View ArticleHow to store JavaScript values persistently, locally
So, you want to store data on the client side? There is a method called localStorage. Let’s do a simple example. <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en-US"> <head> <meta...
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