Archive for December, 2009

I don’t prefer using an ODBC datasource, but sometimes it is the easiest way to gain access to a database. Often times when using frameworks(php, not sure about others) an odbc option is available, however who knows if it will deliver sql compatible with the database we’re trying to gain access to. I’ll base this [...]

I’ve just released a new version of jQueryImpromptu. This version fixes a bug dealing with 4 or more checkboxes in a prompt. Also version 2.8 changes the Escape key event to rely on the “persistent” option. So if you don’t want the prompt to close on Escape you need this option set to true. There [...]

Whether you’re aware of it or not I love using regular expressions. Something about it just gives me an extra sense of satisfaction and security. However, often I use them on the server side more often than client side for the simple fact that for critical applications it’s more reliable considering the client can opt [...]

Installing the php5-mssql package in Ubuntu is not as obvious as it should be. I was unable to find it in Synaptic nor apt-get at first. From the install it appears that the package php5-mssql is a virtual package, which really points to php5-sybase. To install php5-mssql for Ubuntu note that there are two methods. [...]

After a while we all get a little board of seeing the same lame entrance of Impromptu. So this little snippet is to help spice things up a bit by adding a nice fresh entrance effect. Here we will create our own jQuery effect, but we’ve tailored it to work mainly for Impromptu. For the [...]