What I did at work today

Similarly ...

$.fn.tallest = $.fn.tallest || function(outer, margins) {
	var fn = outer ? "height" : "outerHeight";
	return Math.max.apply(Math, $.map(this, function(el) {
		return $(el)[fn](margins);
	}));
};

$.fn.widest = $.fn.widest || function(outer, margins) {
	var fn = outer ? "width" : "outerWidth";
	return Math.max.apply(Math, $.map(this, function(el) {
		return $(el)[fn](margins);
	}));
};

EDIT: Math.max.apply(Math, array), not Math.max.apply(null, array) for IE6. EDIT 2: $.map doesn’t call the function in the context of each object, but instead passes it as the first argument. Arg.

I keep writing this

$.fn.maxWidth = function(outer, margins) {
	var o = 0,
		fn = outer ? "width" : "outerWidth";
	$.each(this, function() {
		o += $(this)[fn](margins);
	});
	return o;
};

$.fn.maxHeight = function(outer, margins) {
	var o = 0,
		fn = outer ? "height" : "outerHeight";
	$.each(this, function() {
		o += $(this)[fn](margins);
	});
	return o;
};

From a colleague working on a site audit:

<div class="SeoSection">
<!-- Search Engine Optimization //-->
<h1>Overview</h1>
</div>

Some math

Spreadsheet 1: 1562 rows x 2 prototypes
Spreadsheet 2: 2744 rows x 2 prototypes
Spreadsheet 3: 815 rows x 2 prototypes

Add it all together and I have to copy and paste 10,242 links into these templates for user acceptance testing. Shoot me now.

Worst. Project. Ever is almost over.

In the meantime, I enjoyed exploring the JavaScript architecture ideas from Jim Benton and Yehuda Katz. I have a simple state machine going, and it has some nicely declarative logic definitions. I need to see how well it scales to the type of UI work we tend to do here.

Today, I’m working:

• in a Java/Maven environment in Eclipse for mac, off of a Viacom VPN, porting over static code from another Subversion repository,
• on a borrowed Dell laptop in XP working mainly in MS Office on a proprietary Microsoft mobile platform on an extra-slow Microsoft VPN,
• on my work iMac, but mostly just to use Outlook in Windows XP in VMWare,

and I’m escaping to my personal macbook when I just can’t take it anymore.

var a = 'You can start here \
and continue here \
and then finish it up here.';

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