Tag Archives: jQuery

How to Customize Bootstrap – Dos and Don’ts

Twitter Bootstrap 3 is great for creating responsive websites. It comes with many components and features that are easy to use and has a great documentation. That’s not always enough. Sometimes you need additional JavaScript functionality or custom CSS. You might even want to add additional jQuery plugins. Sooner or later you’ll hit an issue with some plugin or your code breaking stuff.
In this articles I’ll share the common issues I’ve seen in bootstrap based projects and ways to avoid them when customizing the framework.
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Reusing page jQuery in a Greasemonkey script

Many times I’ve used a RIA or a website and wanted it to behave differently or have an additional functionality that I need. Thanks to Greasemonkey this is possible.

We live in a jQueritifed world where most of the web pages use jQuery.

That’s why on of the things that I need to do most of the time when I write a userscript is to reuse the jQuery from the webpage without loading a new jQuery instance from the web. This will make my script much more responsive and who needs to load something that is already there.

Save your time by not reinventing the wheel and just use the boilerplate code I’m using for my Greasemonkey scripts.

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