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Check out my jQuery beginners Article at iprodeveloper.com 13 Apr 2013 | 02:43 am
The article Dive Into jQuery (Part 1 appears in the April online and print editions of iProDeveloper.com. The target audience is primarily IBM i developers, but it’s actually a good introduction for a...
Using Laravel: How To Use Routes, Controllers and Filters For Public and Private sections of a CMS site 6 Jan 2013 | 06:02 am
If you are reading this you probably already know what Laravel is, but just in case: it’s a PHP framework for building applications. It has all the typical stuff such as MVC, DAO, ORM, a templating en...
Instructions for using a RAVIOLCASA 12 25 Jul 2011 | 03:21 pm
This post is for a different kind of technology – a ravioli template for making raviolis from fresh pasta. I have a hand-crank pasta machine that I use occasionally for making homemade pasta- usually ...
How To Write an SQL Trigger for IBM i 25 Apr 2011 | 05:45 pm
In Product Development at our company we are considering a new approach to writing transactions functions (used for shopping cart applications, etc.) which suggests a use for database triggers. We wa...
Tip for getting Gmail email attachments into Google Docs with Chrome 26 Feb 2011 | 07:54 am
If you use Gmail and Chrome as your browser you can take advantage of Chrome’s clever file upload functionality to include Gmail attachments in Google docs. Chrome has drag and drop functionality that...
New Version of jQuery UI Feedback plugin 25 Sep 2010 | 11:06 am
The jQuery UI Feedback plugin I wrote lets you show an informational or error message next to a UI component on your page. Its primary intended use is for AJAX-driven applications, where you want to p...
How to access cross-domain data with AJAX using JSONP, jQuery and PHP 9 Jul 2010 | 10:21 pm
I’m guessing that if you are reading this post you have already encountered the problem of the same origin policy with regards to retrieving data with AJAX from urls in other domains than your’s (the ...
How To Assign The Current Date and Time to a MySQL Datetime Field using PHP 19 Feb 2010 | 07:50 am
This is a no-brainer, but I always forget how to do it. MySQL datetime fields are stored in this format: 2010-02-18 10:33:18. Here’s a trivial example showing you how to populate a datetime field with...
The jQuery UI CSS Framework – Part 2: How To Create Widget-style Boxes 3 Feb 2010 | 08:05 pm
This is the second post in a series on the jQuery UI CSS Framework. Here’s the first one. Today I’ll show you how to create a nice looking box that has…
How To Embed A Google Calendar Gadget In Your Web Site 2 Feb 2010 | 05:28 pm
Google provides two simple ways, other than you writing your own client code to talk to their APIs, to embed a calendar in your web page. One method is easily found by <a title="Google's explanation o...