Ever get the following error? Cannot resolve the collation conflict between “Latin1_General_CI_AI” and “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS” in the equal to operation. I had separate databases on different servers that I needed to query off of. In my case, it was a join between a table on the local server and a table …
Nevermind the fact that a content provider could lose ad revenue, truly the underlying evil in this is that ISPs can change your content. This is why net neutrality is important. Data needs to be untouched as it traverses the Internet. The Problem Crazy how some ISPs would be bold …
If you want bullets other than the regular ones provided by HTML, you could implement bullets based off of images. However, let’s say you decide to change your website’s color scheme. In this case, you would need to re-edit the image. I like using CSS because there’s a lot you …
In *nix systems, symbolic links are quite useful in linking files or directories. When using symbolic links, there exists only one physical location of the file or directory; this allows you to create several symbolic links all pointing to a single source. Here’s a couple of use cases for symbolic …
Routes are an easy way to link URLs to execute specific Javascript code. This could be useful, for example, for defining specific tasks for your app: http://some.site.com/my-sales-order-app/#show-so-details/SO-12345 In the above example, you could have the route show-so-details map to a specific javascript function in your code that would show more …
If you’ve ever developed using Javascript, you should know that console.log is probably your most important tool. Unfortunately, not all web browsers support it (e.g. IE8 only supports it when Developer Tools is activated). Here’s a way of checking to see if console.log exists and if it does, go ahead …
For some reason in IE8, I couldn’t access the built-in JSON global object in Javascript within an iframe. I’m not sure if this issue exists in other browsers, but the fix is to specify the top property first, and then the JSON object: top.JSON.stringify(({json: ‘object’})) See jquery.com
Ran into a problem today with attempting to manipulate textPath SVG elements within the DOM. Consider the following, where the variable svg is an SVG element in your DOM: var g = document.createElementNS(“http://www.w3.org/2000/svg”, “g”); var label_container = document.createElementNS(“http://www.w3.org/2000/svg”, “text”); var label = document.createElementNS(“http://www.w3.org/2000/svg”, “textPath”); label.setAttributeNS(“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”, ‘xlink:href’, ‘#some-path’); label.appendChild(document.createTextNode(“Hello, World!”)); label_container.appendChild(label); …
If you want to prevent the UIWebView from allowing users to scroll the body of your embedded web application, just add the following code: webView.scrollView.bounces = NO; This works very well, especially for any divs that are set to scrollable via the CSS -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch directive. See stackoverflow.com
Running a process that is detached from the terminal is sometimes useful. Case in point, I had to run a database update script remotely via SSH. However, the update script takes a long time (close to an hour) so running it over SSH wouldn’t be practical. Simply being disconnected with …