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Quick Tip JavaScript strings to numbers

This tip is really just different ways to convert strings to numbers. Did you know that the follow code works just fine: var string_to_number = "10" * "10"; // result 100 I thought that was cool, but funky right? Note, this does not work with the “+” operator. So a cool way to convert a [...]

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Quick Tip JavaScript concat operator

JavaScript has string concatting built into the langauge for example. var hello = "hel" + "lo" This is not the interesting point I wanted to talk about. It actually gets more interesting on what happens when you concat string literals with numbers. For example: var x = "33" + 3 // result "333" Notice the [...]

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Mysqld_safe not starting mysql5?

MacPorts, mysql5, mysqld_safe

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