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Archive for March, 2010

Impromptu 3.1 Coming This Week

Impromptu 3.1 is in the works now, and I plan to release it this week. As of now I am just looking to add a few features, so there are no real changes that should break any older versions. As of now I have 3 new changes/additions, one of which is a bug fix. 1) [...]

If you do much reporting I’m sure you’ve encountered needing to sum up a row, or divide, or average some data in a grid, much like you would do in Excel. Its actually not that difficult to whip up a simple, dynamic solution with javascript. I’m using jQuery, but it would be equally as simple [...]

Tables still have their place in the web development world. The best use for them is to display data in a grid, like for reports. I’d like to show a quick example of how to color the columns and rows using CSS3 with rgba. I won’t show the full source code on the blog, but [...]

Update on Everything

The past week or so I haven’t been as active on the blog, but that’s not bad. I’ve been working on some great stuff I will be talking about in the upcoming weeks. A few of the topics I plan to be posting on include: FetchIdeas, Postgres tips, UberUploadCropper, some CakePHP goodness, and a couple [...]

As if there aren’t enough web galleries out there I’m adding one more, FetchIdeas.com. This is a site which I have created over the past couple months, with a different approach than other galleries. My aim is to create better organization, publish only useful resources, and most of all provide a great place to Fetch [...]