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’ [...]
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 [...]
Joel Spolsky is treated with reverence by the programming community. It seems like every blog post, comment, interview, Tumble, etc. that has his name associated with it ends up on Hacker News or Reddit. Certainly he has a profound impact on the programming community and many, many people take his words as gospel. I’ve been [...]
I started working a summer internship position with the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in mid March. The university just purchased a Google Search Appliance and my job is the rollout of the appliance. Right now the university’s search is running on a Google Mini, which is quickly being outgrown. So, we’re developing a web service to [...]