$('input:radio[name=bar]:checked').val(); // get the value from a set of radio buttons

Drupal’s Form API names radio button sets as “setName[radios]“, and Jquery needs “[" and "]” characters to be escaped with a double backslash, as mentioned on this post at the drupal forums. So I tried


var fooValue = $('input:radio[@name='foo\\[radios\\]']:checked").val();
var barValue = $('input:radio[@name='bar\\[radios\\]']:checked").val();

But these lines retrieved the checked value for the first set of radio buttons only. At this point, I tried a non-existing name, and still Jquery retrieved the same value.

After trying a few more tweaks that did not work, I found that getting the text of the labels for all radios would retrieve the checked value of each, in a string, delimited by a space. At last I found that this worked:

var allChecked = $(input:radio:checked + label").text.split(" ");
var fooValue = allChecked[0];
var barValue = allChecked[1];

which is weird and cumbersome but at least it works. Maybe the problem is because Drupal 7 depends on Jquery 1.5.2 and the current version is 1.6.2? No idea.

Assuming that you already have SVN, Eclipse and Subclipse installed:

1. Form the terminal prompt, create an local repository. First create or cd into the directory you would like to house your repository, and then use svnadmin. Svnadmin will create a sub directory named after your project, and everything else svn needs.
   svnadmin create projectName
   (this is half of the first step from this tutorial).
2. In Eclipse, open the SVN Repositories View (Window»Show View»SVN Repositories or select from the “Other” dialog if not shown). Click on the icon with the plus sign to add a new repository location. For the url, place the path to the repository created in step 1, prefixed by file:///. (You can find the path to any directory using the pwd command in the terminal.)
3. Create your project as usual in Eclipse. Do the inital import into SVN by right clicking on your project in the Package Explorer, and selecting Team»Share Project. Choose “SVN” and select your repository location.
4. You can now commit files, revert and merge etc. with SVN through Subclipse.

References: 1, 2, 3

I’ve done shrink plastic pieces quite a few times now, they’re really fun to do! You can buy shrink plastic as the commercial product known as “Shrinky Dinks” at your local crafts store but they are rather expensive…! Instead you can use any #6 plastic, for example the boxes sushi from take out sushi places or sushi bars comes in. It’s environmental and crafty. I first learned this technique from a craft blog (I forgot which), and then searched around the web for more posts on it. There is an youtube video of it too. After all, it involves baking plastic and that sounded risky to me. But numerous people have been documented to have done it and survived. So I took the plunge, and hey look, I’m still alive!

Here’s the making process in brief:

1. Eat some sushi, get some recycle #6 plastic. And it must be #6!! I have tried #9 before, because I somehow read the 9 as a 6 (it was upside down, and the triangle didn’t cue me in) and let me tell you, it. does. not. work. At all. It kind of burns, and does a curling thing – no shrinking.
2. Sandpaper it on at least one side so that your colour pencils/markers are able to adhere to and colour the plastic. I don’t know if the plastic dust that results from this step is bad for your lungs. I sandpaper in my backyard with a flu mask on just in case.
3. 
   Draw your design out on paper, and type the paper to the plastic so it doesn’t move around, with the rough side up. Make sure the design is big though. The plastic shrinks more than 1/3 it’s original size after baking. Use a black marker to outline your design.
4. 
   Colour in your design with colour pencils.
5. 
   Cut out your design, and punch a hole through them with a single hole punch for attaching a jump ring. After you’ve baked it and they’ve shrunk, the hole is the perfect size for a jump ring to go through.
6. Bake them in your oven, for my oven I just set it to medium heat (I’m using an old toaster oven where the temperature markings have worn off for my craft projects). For specific temperatures, this site says 325 degrees, this site says 250 degrees – neither site says if that’s in C or F. Decide yourself, but not too hot or it’ll melt. Medium, ok? When it’s in the oven, it will curl around over itself and do crazy things. But if you have it at the right temperature, it will uncurl itself and behave eventually (~10min?), usually. Or it will snap into two pieces and you have to start over. This happens to me a lot.
7. 
   I’m not going to explain this part in detail because I’m not very good at it myself. But after shrinking, marvel at the tininess of the thing and then attach jump rings, a length of chain (I counted off ten loops each) and earring hooks. Stick them through your piercings. Yay, finished! And crappy webcam image is crappy, but it’s the best I can do.

Have fun