Backwards Text in Gmail App
I’m not sure exactly what happened here, but this is what I saw when I re-opened Chrome and my Gmail Tab that was left open got restored. Any ideas?
Why “hiding” source code is bad.
I’ve been working at my current employer for about 5 months now and since I started, I have been involved in or heard this conversation more than 10 times, which is 10 times more than I’ve heard within the past 7 years I’ve been doing web development. The client wants their source code hidden from public view.
Let me first explain where I feel the communication has failed. The client says “Source code”, however they may mean “Application code”. To the client, when they “View Source”, they may not know exactly what they are looking at, all they see is code. If they don’t understand the difference between HTML code and Server side code (PHP/.NET/JSP), they feel like the code that makes their site work could be compromised. It is imperative that the client understand the difference between these 2 types of code and that their server side source code is safe.
Review of LG enV3 (VX9200)
I upgraded my mobile device yesterday (relative to when I started this post on June 10th) from the LG VX8600 (Chocolate2 Flip) to the brand new enV3 (VX9200). I’ve already seen a few reviews out there, however it seems most, if not all have reviewed the slate blue, and not the maroon (red). I actually got the maroon version by mistake, however I actually like it, probably more than I would’ve the blue version. Let me tell you this is a great mobile device! I say mobile device because phone just doesn’t cut it. It is packed with features, yet isn’t so complicated to make usage difficult. Video below, or you can read the text version after the jump.
[video review to be posted shortly not coming 
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jQuery + JSON + AJAX = My own custom solution.
So. In an effort to come up with a solution to a very common AJAX problem (at least for me), I have put together a little tutorial for handling AJAX responses in a simple, yet effective manner. Here’s the problem:
AJAX is used sometimes for validation, sometimes for quick little updates to the database, and other times for the same old add/edit/delete functions. There’s an infinite ways AJAX can be used in your web application, so I’m pretty sure my solution will not work 100% of the time, but it may make things a little bit easier to handle 90% of the time.
PHP MySQL Class
So it’s probably pretty late in “the game” to be posting this, however I thought I might do it anyway just for those that may want to get started using OOP in PHP. I’ve been using this for a while and improving it wherever I can, then I started using CodeIgniter which ended up having a very similar class built into it. So if you are wanting to learn OOP, this might help you a long and it will make for a good transition into an MVC if you decide to move forward from there.
Updated qrayg Menus
A while back I found a modified version of the Suckerfish dropdown css menus from A List Apart that had the CSS written out for 4 submenus. For the longest time I continued to return to the site (formerly Solar Dream Studios) to download a fresh version of the menus and javascript. Well, it appears that as of April 15, the author Craig Erskine has ‘completely overhauled’ the CSS. The stylesheet looks to be about half the size and is much easier to manage than before.
Dreamweaver Extensions
Here’s a list of Dreamweaver extensions I would like to keep track of:
PHP Coding tools for Dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1747522
PHP Code Hints
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1754023
or directly: http://www.xp-internet.com/en/DreamweaverExtensions/PHPCodeHints.php
Subweaver
http://code.google.com/p/subweaver/
Here’s a site with good ones:
http://www.xtnd.us/dreamweaver
Google Hacked?
Hmm. Not sure what's going on here, but the Google homepage is not loading. Out of curiousity, I checked out the source and found this:
HTML:
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<!-- squid -->
Anyone else seeing this or am I just crazy?
The distant future
When deciding on a Halloween costume this year, I was compelled to mock my favorite folk comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, and designed a pretty-decent clone of the robot costume from Season 1 Episode 1 of FOTC on HBO. This costume was featured in their debut music video called Robots (aka The Humans are Dead). You can view the video on HBO's website. Photos after the jump.
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Image Thumbnail Creator
Like many other people, I found Mike Lopez's image thumbnail script quite useful. He has taken the time to go through the brain-crunching algorithm to create image proportional image thumbnails when given a max height/width. Although this script is very handy, it was lacking in a few areas, such as transparent PNG and GIF support, as well as the un-needed resize if the image was smaller than the requested dimensions. I hope I have "helped" in this situation by modifying the script so that it handles such requests. Credit for the transparency support goes to Martin Schmidt (icheee).
One modification I made that is important to note is that the image is now fed through with the SRC variable, rather than the IMG variable. Thanks Mike for this script and I hope my updates really help.
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