Namespaces in JavaScript

Namespaces are one honking great idea. For years I've used namespaces in JavaScript, and I keep returning to my go-to script for handling this. It's pretty straightforward, and a quick search will return you dozens of alternatives. Regardless, here you go, enjoy:

https://gist.github.com/1440502

Basic LTI Consumer in PHP

A recent small project at work called for using WordPress as a Basic LTI Tool Consumer. Basic LTI is a dirt-simple, and quite handy, way to integrate web applications and is especially popular in the education industry.

We ended up creating a simple WordPress plugin. The plugin has some proprietary bits, but I've extracted the core logic into a gist for your enjoyment. Hopefully this is helpful for you PHP hackers out there, or anyone else needing a simple example of how Basic LTI works.

https://gist.github.com/1171921