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January 18th, 2010IE9 and SVG?
January 14th, 2010Hopefully this means that IE will soon support SVG. Or even better, support canvas natively…
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/01/05/microsoft-joins-w3c-svg-working-group.aspx
New Muppet Vid: Bohemian Rhapsody
December 9th, 2009Capturing both a Mason component’s output and return value
December 2nd, 2009From the mason manual:
As of 1.10, component calls can accept an initial hash reference of modifiers. The only currently supported modifier is store, which stores the component’s output in a scalar reference. For example:
my $buf;
my $return = $m->comp( { store => \$buf }, ‘/some/comp’, type => ‘big’ );
This mostly duplicates the behavior of scomp, but can be useful in rare cases where you need to capture both a component’s output and return value.
This modifier can be used with the <& &> tag as well, for example:
<& { store => \$buf }, ‘/some/comp’, size => ‘medium’ &>
24 ways - web design and development articles and tutorials for advent
December 1st, 2009It is that wonderful time of year again. Head over to 24ways.org for you daily dose of web design and development articles and tutorials.
Bookmarklet for easy switching between development and production web environments
November 30th, 2009When I develop websites, I like to set up a development site on my local web server. I usually name it the same as the production site, but with a ‘local’ prefix. So if the production site is acme.com, my development site will be localacme.com.
I wrote a little bookmarklet for easy switching between the two sites. It checks to see if the new url starts with ‘http://local’. If it does, ‘local’ will be deleted from the url, if not, local will be inserted.
Here is the code for the bookmarklet:
javascript:(function(){u=location.href.replace(%22http://www.%22,%22http://%22);a=%22http://local%22;b=%22http://%22;l=(u.indexOf(a)==0)?u.replace(a,b):u=u.replace(b,a);location.href=l;})()
Create new MySQL table
October 15th, 2009CREATE TABLE new_table (
id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
bool_field tinyint(1) DEFAULT 0,
my_date datetime DEFAULT NULL
);
Adding field to existing MySQL table
October 15th, 2009alter table table_name add new_field_name int(2) default 0;
Adding server side includes to JS and CSS files
October 7th, 2009Add the following to apache.conf to use server side includes in JS and CSS files:
AddType application/javascript .js
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .js
AddType text/css .css
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .css
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews Includes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Changing ENUM values
September 30th, 2009ALTER TABLE db.table_name CHANGE COLUMN old_column_name new_column_name ENUM(’first’,’second’,'third’) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘first’;