This was an issue I had for just about a week. I am kinda new to the idea of doing regression tests on all of a project's codebase, but the tools I was going to be using were easily installable via PEAR. Setting up the development environment was quite a task and because of this, I found myself installing and re-installing software multiple times so that the settings would be correct. I'm not sure if this was the reason for this issue none the less, after a few re-installs of PEAR, I started get...

Ok. So let me clear up a few things before I get into any more details so everyone can know what's going on. If you don't know by now, I'm rockin an iPhone 4. Yes, it's the best phone in the market, hands down. This post is not a debate of that topic. The problem came about a few weeks ago, when I got an email from AT&T saying: "Did you know tethering your Smartphone to a computer requires a tethering plan? Pls call 866-679-7118 for details or visit att.com/dataplans" Ok, so tethering is bas...

Ok. So here is a little snippet of code I used for a project that was developed in Wordpress. This snippet will work for plugins mainly, to create and manage database versioning. I've used this sort of function in other projects as well and it works well for keeping track and synchronization between current database version and actual database version installed. This version is not the final version but it is at a point where I thought it could be useful to others as a guideline to getting a plu...

I didn't know that you could do this until a few months ago and it's pretty sweet. Has to do with using Google Adwords for online advertising. One thing that can help any campaign to improve over time is continuous tracking and reporting and on top of that, analyzing the information and making good decisions based on it. The trick I learned was retrieving additional information from the query string that you put in Google. I knew that you can get the keyword information by using "{keyword}" in y...

As many developers are already aware of, the best operationg system for web development is undoubtedly Linux. It's also perfect for web and file hosting. Unfortunately, it did take me some time to get used to it in respect to doing everything with it. And now, over 10 years after starting out with linux, I'm providing web consultation for a major financial internet business based in South Florida. And I must say, the first day there was great even excluding all of the friendly people around. But...

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/