Using jQuery Mobile docs examples

By Tobias Beuving | Published: 20 maart 2011

What got me stuck for a while, building my first app with jquery mobile,

A unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation.

, was the lack of an option to peek around in the code of the examples presented in the jquery mobile docs.

On the site an example would read:

<div data-role="header"> 
	<h1>Page Title</h1> 
</div>

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Checking for ssl (secure http / https) in php

By Tobias Beuving | Published: 20 maart 2011

In order to find out how to check for the presence of a secure connection in PHP, I looked into some https related wordpress plugins and noticed that there are several ways to check for this presence.
For example, checking for the server port 443, on which on agreement HTTPS traffic should run, assigned by the IANA. Nice and all, but my hosting provider does not support this. So code like this will fail to detect the secure connection:

if($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] != '443') {

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Comments don’t show on attachment.php in thematic

By Tobias Beuving | Published: 20 maart 2011

Recently I added attachment.php to my childtheme and noticed that the commentform displayed correctly, but the comments never showed.
Snippet from attachment.php:

            thematic_belowpost();
            comments_template();

The function call comments_template(); does not work as expected.

When thematic’s own functions are used everything works fine:
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Teylers adventure

By Tobias Beuving | Published: 20 maart 2011

In opdracht van de Waag society heb ik met o.a. Rolf Coppens gewerkt aan een permanent opgestelde adventure voor het Teylers Museum in Haarlem.

Rolf heeft hierover een korte presentatie gemaakt:

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Magyar Lecke (hongaarse les)

By Tobias Beuving | Published: 19 maart 2011

In mijn master jaar (1998) aan de HKU woonde ik samen met Sinuhe, een duitser (Stefan), zwitser (Casper) en twee hongaarse dames (Virág en Cecilia). Om de hongaarse taal machtig te worden hadden we de volgende handreikingen prominent boven de keukentafel hangen.








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