So I started out with the Getting Started for PHP on the Heroku site in my efforts to get into the cloud. The step-by-step guide on the Heroku site is fairly straightRead More…
I lost all my content when the blog got hacked and my hosting company could not restore it. I have subsequently unearthed a heap of old posts (that had sync’d to Facebook as Notes).Read More…
I got stuck writing a query for Firebird today. And here I was thinking that SQL was a standard — if only the “S” were for “Standard”… I was busy writing scripts atRead More…
I battled for ages to find the correct syntax to create a trigger in MySQL — the examples I could find were all to complex and I could not get any of themRead More…
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My boss (bless his little cotton socks) wanted me to implement some code that submitted a form when the user changed the selection in a set of radio buttons. This seemed fairlyRead More…
I got caught out using Javascript’s location.reload(true); recently. I have a web-page which is destined to be displayed in a public area on a large screen, which unfortunately has a LARGE, staticRead More…
I love the fact that the best solutions are almost always the simplest! I spend a lot of time sanitising data. I use Excel a lot of the time to perform mostRead More…
I saw mosaic arrangements of sliced photos on Instagram and like the effect, so here is my first attempt! Just remember that your mosaic stands to be “corrupted” should you post furtherRead More…
So I set out to add some placeholder text for login fields in my CakePHP project. First I tried the default attribute, and then started implementing some Javascript to clear the text fromRead More…
After a recent WordPress upgrade I noticed that the acronym button is no longer available in the Tiny MCE editor plugin I use. I am a big fan of generating complete, semanticRead More…