I have a couple of features to implement for a side project, and I finally delved into the basics of PHP classes. I’m sure that I am not using the full functionality of the class, but at least I can now load objects from the database without repeating SQL statements constantly. If I [...]
I updated the blogs (this one and Deuce’s Wild) with a plugin to insert the Google Analytics javascript. This blog has had the plugin for some time, but the Wild has not had the pleasure of being tracked by Google.
I was also able to find a small write-up about changing the themes [...]
Read: Google Analytics updated
Of the hundreds of input forms in out application, one of them is a simple drop down that, when the user selects an entry, that entry is automatically added to a collection (and subsequently bound to a datagrid). This works by handling the onchange event of the standard HTML select tag.
That event [...]
Read: Hacking the combo box for auto selection with keyboard input.
My wife has decided she’s going to start blogging a little bit. She found a site called The Pioneer Woman, which is the site of a woman in Oklahoma who lives on a ranch with her family and cooks some amazing food. She posts some of her recipes to her blog, and it [...]
Read: Deuce’s new diggs.
A good bit of our application utilizes IE’s showModalDialog() call to display additional screens for the user. No, it’s not browser safe, but the goal was to make the application as close to our windows application as possible, so modal dialogs were required.
However, we ran into some problems with Vista, AcroPDF, and modal dialogs. [...]
