Archive for 'web development'

MySQL Workbench 5.2

For those of you who like to see things visually, the newest release of MySQL workbench enables you to connect to your existing MySQL database and reverse engineer it so that you can see the full ERR (Entity Relationship R_____) Diagram in all its glory. For me this is helpful to see when I’m taking [...]

Updated my WordPress!

Finally updated this thing to 2.8.6… Hopefully this will get rid of the spam that was plaguing my site…

PHP Makes You a Lazy Programmer

The fact that you don’t have to initialize your variables in PHP makes me a very lazy programmer.  With a large scale project that I’ve been working on for the past 6 months, I’ve really paid the penalty for dumb mistakes like not initializing and resetting my variables.  So just because PHP doesn’t make you [...]

PHP String Concatentation Performance

I’m not sure if this is totally correct and I have no fixed way of measuring this (other than that I don’t get any timeout errors anymore) but I’ve noticed a significant difference when choosing between two different methods of string concatenation: Slow way: foreach($oranges as $orange){ $orange_str = $orange_str . $orange; } Better way: [...]

Internet Explorer + Javascript + Radio buttons = FAIL

more to come later…

Client-side Form Validation w/ jQuery… but with a lot of form inputs…

Probably the best example of form validation comes from Jeremy Keith’s DOM Scripting, which is probably the best book I’ve ever picked up.  Ever since I read it a little over two years ago, it definitely got me into the loop as far as modern-day javascript is concerned…  But anyway, he shows you how to [...]

Embarrassing, lol

I’m handing over an application with zero documentation.

jQuery Internet Explorer bug, cloning a cloned element

I’m currently using jQuery 1.3.1 and Internet Explorer throws an error when I try to clone() an element whom itself is a clone. So if I were to hit “Duplicate” on row 15 in the diagram above, a copy of that row would show up at the end of the table.  The error occurs when [...]

Side Projects

I have like 3 or 4 side projects that I want to get rolling on…  but I feel like there’s little time to work on those kinda things.  Kristine and I went to Mozart’s this past Saturday so I could work on something I’d been putting off since September and it actually felt really good.  [...]

What I like about Javascript frameworks

The thing I like about Javascript frameworks so far is that I don’t seem to be having the same kind of browser compatibility issues I used to have when I used to write most of my Javascript from scratch.  All of the browser incompatibilities have been abstracted to me so I don’t have to worry [...]