While developing a recent project at work, I had the need to display a modal dialog. I started using jQuery recently and so I started by looking for a jQuery modal dialog plugin. I did find a couple of existing ones (jqModal and BlockUI), but neither did exactly what I was looking for. So…I decided [...]
I’ve been playing with configuring WordPress (WP) for this site. After doing some research, I had a plan for how I wanted it to work. Basically, I wanted to use WP to manage my site (like a CMS) as well as for a blog. After a lot of trial and error, I think I’ve achieved [...]
Even with the volume turned off, if your PC has a system speaker, it can still emit a loud system beep. I was running some MySQL statements from the command line and every time there was an error…BEEP. To fix this, I could simply run the MySQL commands with the -b, –no-beep option, which turns [...]
When I changed jobs, my commute changed from mostly surface streets to mostly highway. I-80 is notoriously congested and I wanted to strategically plan my commute to avoid as much traffic as possible. I started by watching traffic online and then found Traffic.com, where I could create custom drives and receive alerts, etc. Pretty cool…but [...]
I stumbled upon a PHP framework called Kohana, which is based on CodeIgniter. I’ve used CI a bit in the past and thought I’d give Kohana a whirl. I downloaded the latest code and tried to run it on a Windows XP machine. Well, when I brought up the site, I got an error: Fatal [...]
I’ve decided to take another shot at updating my site and starting a blog… I’ve chosen WordPress and while I’m trying to create/find a design, I’m just going to use this “default” theme. This site will mostly be used as a place to store code I’m writing/testing, but I’ll also be adding various anecdotes about [...]
