Trent Richardson

practical web design & development

I thought of another handy scenario for using regular expressions in Postgres. This time not within the conditions, but in the returned results. Lets say for instance you have a column with URL, (maybe blog comments or something) and you would like to get a list of all the domain names, not the full [...]

Reading a Book

Never thought I would say this since I’m long out of college, but I am in fact reading a book. (Hence why I’ve been quiet here on the blog the last few days) I purchased the The Smashing Book. So far it has been very educational. It is broken up into [...]

Gedit PHP Completion and Collaboration

If you’re a gEdit fan like I am you will be excited to see these plugins by Jesse van den Kieboom. First off a php completion plugin. This is something I’ve been hoping to find for quite some time. You can find it over at GitHub. The second thing is Collaboration. [...]

I’m Now On Twitter!

It took me long enough, but I’m now on Twitter! I actually had an account set up several months ago but never logged in. I decided it was time. My username is practicalweb. While I may not post every event in life, I will try to keep it up to date [...]

jQuery Impromptu 3.0 is Here

Finally, Impromptu 3.0 has made it! It features two changes really. One big and one small. The small addition was an option for classes. So you can now add extra classes to an individual prompt to customize the styles without needing an entirely new theme. Here’s the syntax:

$.prompt(‘text here..’, { [...]