Archive for May, 2008

As you may have read from an earlier post I have been searching for a nice solution to figuring out which element currently has focus. Reason being is that it would be nice to detect if any element within Impromptu has focus, if not focus Impromptu. This way it keeps users from accessing the underlying [...]

Thanks to Harry over at Code Bus we now have a PHP version of JsonSQL. For those not familiar with JsonSQL, it allows you to use basic SQL syntax to parse json. Supported syntax includes selects, order by, where, and limit and allows you to apply conditions on objects of any depth within the json [...]

Lately I’ve run into a brick wall. While working on the new version of Impromptu, I’ve had many requests to restrict the tab out of the prompt. Problem is how do you determine which element has focus without some ugly hacks like adding a class name to the element on its focus event, then removing [...]

I wasn’t aware myself there were issues with using sudo when using graphical applications, however a commenter refered me to an artical on Running Sudo Graphically. After reading over the article it’s points seem to be pretty clear, that when you use a command like: sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list issues can occur by running the application [...]

With the new arrival of Open Blue Dragon, we may now have some new server environment combinations. Over at Shad Belcher’s blog he has now declared(christened as far as I’m aware) MAPO (Mac, Apache, Postgres, Open Blue Dragon). As big of a ColdFusion fan as I am I can’t wait to see the success of [...]