A Quick Post on URL, URI, UDI, URN… Resources

URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, is often used as a blanket term for almost anything on the internet. A URI, or Uniform Resource Identifier, represents a unique resource on a server, located somewhere on the World Wide Web. Other abbreviations that are often confusingly related include UDI for Universal Document Identifier and URN for Universal... Continue reading →

Some JavaScript + REGEX goo to get query strings from your HREF/URI/URL

I guess there is a library somewhere to do this, but I couldn’t find it fast enough so I spit this contraption out. It’s a function that grabs the value from a URI/URL query string. Yes, writing those nasty REGEXs about drove me nuts! 😉 Maybe I can save at least one soul out there... Continue reading →