I’ve been working on an MSSQL based PHP application the last couple weeks, and I didn’t really have a good way to see what data was actually in the tables, or indeed what columns and datatypes the tables were made up of. I was essentially given the database connection info and told to “get to [...]
simplyScroll is a compact little jQuery plugin that auto-scrolls child elements of a container div that you call it on with jQuery. So, for example if you have the following unordered list: <ul id="list"> <li>Item 1</li> <li>Item 2</li> <li>Item 3</li> </ul> Then you can call simplyScroll on the list as follows: $(document.ready(function(){ $("#list").simplyScroll({ autoMode: ‘loop’ [...]
As you may have heard, Guillermo del Toro recently decided that large delays in the production schedule of The Hobbit movies meant that he could no longer commit himself to directing them. He lived in New Zealand for two years working on the project, co-writing the script, designing creatures and settings and planning sequences. But [...]
Back in the early to mid nineties, businesses all wanted to “get online” to establish their web presence on the (then) newly popular “information super-highway.” Having a website was promised to bring them untold riches and an exponential increase in customers. Even brick-and-mortar local businesses that didn’t offer any services not available on site joined [...]
There’s a lot of hullabaloo on the internet presently about some spurious claims made by famed thumb-haver Roger Ebert, in which he claims that “video games can never be art.” Everyone is attempting to argue with him by giving examples of games that have exceptional cinematics, sound, storytelling, voice acting, etc etc. This is the [...]