GreatWebGuy
Self-proclaimed greatness is a hard thing to prove.
Upgrading WordPress with the iPhone
Dec 11th
I’ve been using InstantUpgrade for over a year now to keep my blog on the latest version of WordPress without fail. Every upgrade has been smooth and successful and has gone off without a hitch. This evening I got really brave and used my iPhone to upgrade to WordPress 2.7, again everything went smooth. The
inSpot.org a public service or a bad joke
Oct 21st
Catching up on my buddies tweets, I ran into an interesting one..”Web 2.0 hookups gone bad,” with a link to http://inspot.org/gateway.aspx. Just when you think everything has hit the web, around the corner comes something new and bold and if your a little twisted, a lot of fun. The gist of the site is that
Prevent double submit with jQuery
Sep 16th
Another great “little” solution with jQuery. Needed a simple way to protect all the forms on our site from being double submitted. There was an attempted solution in place on our app, that added an onsubmit to every form with a function above it called ignoreDoubleSubmit that tried to trap the event of the button
Stock quote and chart from Yahoo in Java
Aug 17th
I was recently in need of a stock quote web service in order to display quote information and charts for a corporate website I was working on, so I started looking around for something, free of course. I kept reading that the most common example of web as a service is the stock quote example,
Europa to Ganymede, a flawless Eclipse upgrade
Jul 6th
I’ve been burned by Eclipse upgrades before, especially when it comes to running local tomcat servers in the IDE. I think as recent as 3.1 to 3.2 and 3.2 to 3.3, this or that got moved and all my tomcat servers disappeared, or they were there and they just didn’t want to start. I’m pleased
Firefox 3 released today
Jun 17th
Today’s the day all us developer types have been waiting for, Firefox 3 will be released and a world record for most downloads in a day will be set. If you’re a web app developer and you’re not using this browser, with at least Firebug, YSlow, and the Web Developer Toolbar, you might as well
It’s so cold in the office, you’ll crap your pants
Jun 16th
Got this one this morning and I’m still laughing, I’ve removed names to protect the innocent. I never knew it could get that cold and something tells me the opposite would occur. Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 9:16 AM To: IT Department Subject: Air Conditioning Hello All, We have spoken to facilities about the air
