When I’ve got time to kill, I like to read my fellow web developers’ tales of woe. It’s like when I watch a movie about a post-apocalyptic future — I’m both fascinated and happy I’m not the one getting chased by nuclear mutants.

Well, today I have a tale of my own. Friday I wake up to a phone call from a panicking client. Their website is down, and since the site is a major marketing tool for the company, it’s a pretty serious issue.

We hop into *figure this out figure this out what’s going on* mode. We realize that the site isn’t really down–every page but the main index was accessible, but none of the includes that rely on the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] variable are working.

Transcript after the jump.

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Found this tutorial with some great tips for Javascript best practices. Don’t let the title of tutorial fool you, there is bound to be something in there even for some of the more seasoned developers.
24 javascript best practices for beginners
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Today we look at yet another Fx class extension, Fx.Slide. This plugin lets you easily slide content in and out of view.

Today we look at Fx.Elements, a useful extension of the Fx class which lets you morph multiple elements set with common options and events.

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For day 21 we’re going to be looking at the Implement and Extend functionality that comes with the Mootools. We’ll step through some basic examples of extending and implementing classes and look at how you can add functionality directly into the Mootools objects.

We return on Day 20 with a small project. Instead of focusing on a specific area within the library, we are going to look at how to create several different types of tabs that display content on hover or click.

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