http://www.frankmaulit.com better than your blog. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:17:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So a couple weeks back I thought my freaking D-Link router was shot (not working).  I was having issues where I wasn't able to login to the router administration.  It would keep returning this error message to me:  "The network connection seems to be down."  I was very close to ... http://www.frankmaulit.com/2008/08/07/firefox-3-and-d-link-dir-615-router-issues/ 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 ... http://www.frankmaulit.com/2008/06/27/what-i-like-about-javascript-frameworks-2/ Two new quirks with Firefox 3.0 and my Web Developer Toolbar: 1.)  I can't do CTRL+SHIFT+S to not show the styles on my page.  Instead my bookmarks show up on a sidebar.  Boo. 2.)  I can't do CTRL+SHIFT+Y to inspect a particular element in the DOM and see where it sits in ... http://www.frankmaulit.com/2008/06/26/firefox-30-and-the-web-developer-toolbar/ I didn't know you had to say "commit;" after any SQL statement in Oracle to have the changes take effect. Maybe I'm stupid but no one ever taught me this, lol. http://www.frankmaulit.com/2008/06/12/oracle-vs-mysql-my-experience/ My goal for this one situation is to validate all my form data with my backend PHP code through AJAX. If all the checks on my form don't go through successfully, the page will not go to the next page specified in the HTML form's "action" attribute. On the Javascript ... http://www.frankmaulit.com/2008/06/12/handling-jquery-serialize-on-the-backend-with-php/ Google Transit is saying that it will take me 53 minutes to get home if I ride the bus. It will cost me $1.50 to take the bus. It's less than 10 miles between home and work. My car gets about 34 miles per gallon. Gas ... http://www.frankmaulit.com/2008/06/02/if-i-wanted-to-take-the-bus-home-from-work/ Yay, my first real technical blog post! I've been trying to tackle this issue for a while. I've been making a connection to an Oracle database using PHP, but I'd have to modify the environment variables to tell PHP where to find the Oracle installation and the tnsnames.ora file. ... http://www.frankmaulit.com/2008/03/19/using-phps-putenv-function-to-set-environment-variables-and-connecting-to-an-oracle-database/ I think I might start using this webspace as a place to document all my web-development related issues. I can only share so much of work related stuff since that stuff is confidential, but I think I can keep it general enough. http://www.frankmaulit.com/2008/03/18/what-to-write-about/ http://www.frankmaulit.com/IMG_2240.jpg http://www.frankmaulit.com/2008/03/18/goodphil-wallpaper/