Ok so I got a new buddy that I've been working with on a couple of projects now. And I wanted to touch a little on what we're using and doing now. Pretty solid project description... So there's a company that we're doing some consulting for, and they are really in need of a good system that can help them cut back on redundancy. Currently, the systems in place are older and running on primarily mainframe technologies still and on a daily basis, client information is needing to be updated and retr...

One would assume that clearing all the favicon.ico files out of Firefox 3 would be a simple task. It isn’t. I had this same issue before working at a company, where the CEO requested that all of the internal websites have favicons. We made the changes to the sites, but had no luck viewing the changes successfully in all browsers. Well, had I known this at that time, I would have been better off. Clearing your cache doesn’t work because the icons aren’t stored there. Rather it...

First off, I honestly do not like Drupal that much. Nothing personal, but I prefer systems that allow developers to fully customize the system they're using. Many may say that Drupal does that but I don't agree. I feel Drupal is perfect for non-developers to get websites up and running and to allow them the ability to add some cool features in there at the same time. But in my experience, I've always had much more control over the system that I was developing. It was hard to accept working in a ...

Why? Why? Why? Why everytime I look at a new client's website request, does it always try to dictate what tool or CMS I should use to build the website with? Shows how unfair life can be to a web developer sometimes. You don't see people going to the doctor with their own medicine bag do you? Well, I thought about it alot and I want you to tell me what you think. Maybe it makes sense because you're doing the work for the person and getting paid to do it, but what if doing it their way will make ...

Over the holidays, a friend asked me to setup a laptop he just got. It must have had a fresh install of XP on there along with built in wireless, a DVD player and more than 100 gigs. Not too bad. Didnt really check the memory, wasn't too concerned with the extras. However, he did have an issue: not being able to watch DVDs because the codec needed to be installed. This is a serious problem when you aren't too computer saavy. Usually you would have to go and buy one online which is completely unn...

sub {  use strict;  use CGI qw(:standard);  my $keyword = shift;  my $args = "aspell -a";  my $returntext = `echo $keyword | $args`;  my @suggestions = split("\n", $returntext);  my @suggestion_list = split(":", $suggestions[1]);  my @individual_keywords = split(", ", $suggestion_list[1]);  return $suggestion_list[1];}#end sub     Here ya go. This was killin me for the longest. We have a client who has a search page where they want to do aut...

Ok. So there is a serious demand for Ajax forms now a days. Processing the form on the fly. Well, I've ran into this a few time, having to post forms via jquery or ajax and display a response to the user without refreshing the page. And it was one of those problems where you know that everything is setup correctly and that there's some syntax issue going on that you haven't noticed yet. Well it was that case here as well. I was trying to post a multipart form to upload an image and send an email...

Found this good rating Ajax tool that may be good for others to use. Very simple and easy to incorporate into any existing database or section of your site.

You can see it in action on http://www.findapitbull.com/search/

Or you can follow the link below to the download page for this software.

http://boedesign.com/blog/2008/02/18/ajax-star-rating/