Web Development
Share/Add This Buttons on sites
I’ve noticed a change of buttons lately on sites where you can bookmark/share the relevant information. So I’ve done a cross sample of A Computer Site – www.dell.com , The MySQL Acquirer – www.
Read moreThe iPhone Safari Browser
One of my photo websites www.ronaldbradford.com doesn’t work properly on the iPhone under Safari, but it works under Safari on Mac OS/X. Problem is, there is no debugging options and I see no way to workout why DOM compliant Javascript doesn’t work!
Read moreGot the next great web thing!
I joined a new meetup group New York Dot Com Hatchery on advice from my friend Marc. Now only if my schedule keeps in NY for the event I’ll be very much looking forward to going.
Read moreWhat is the maximum number of colons ‘:’ that may appear in a valid URL?
In idle conversation I was asked by MM. Question: What is the maximum number of colons ‘:’ that may appear in a valid URL? If you said zero to one, then you are victim of browsers, and you have never used anything but a browser.
Read moreNY Tech Meetup – Idea Virus
On more thing that came from the NY Tech Meetup last night was the Idea Virus. It was handed out on a piece of paper. Here is what it said.
Read moreNY Tech Meetup
Tonight I headed to the NY Tech Meetup organized by the CEO of Meetup and co-founder of Fotolog, the company my friend Frank works for. This forum provided for quick presentations by new NY high tech ventures and other interesting discussions, then enabling further networking between people.
Read moreTutorial – Beginner Web Services
An introduction to using Axis . What is Axis? Axis is essentially a SOAP engine — a framework for constructing SOAP processors such as clients, servers, gateways, etc. The current version of Axis is written in Java.
Read moreTransforming XML with XSLT
I’ve done some work previously in XSLT to nicely format XML output within a browser. Presently, some code I’m working with also does this transforming of an XML output via XSLT into a HTML file.
Read moreGenerating an internal SSL Certificate (for tomcat)
How to Generate an internal SSL certificate Create the self-signed keystore $ su - $ URL="your.url.here";export URL $ cd /opt/tomcat/conf $ keytool -genkey -alias ${URL} -keyalg RSA -keystore ${URL}.keystore Enter keystore password: changeit What is your first and last name?
Read moreFireFox’s Live Bookmarks
I’m just about to launch a new project I’ve been working on in the past week. It has a RSS feed, and I wanted to ensure that within FireFox, this could be picked up as a live bookmark.
Read moreThe GWT!
New to the AJAX vertical space is the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) released the the Sun Java One Conference last week. AJAX (“Asynchronous Javascript and XML”) isn’t new, infact the underlying requirements within AJAX, the DHTML, DOM manipulation and XMLHttpRequest were available in 1997.
Read moreRestyling a Mediwiki Installation – Lesson 1
Following my implementation of UltimateLAMP , read heaps more at this thread , I undertook to provide customizations of a MediaWiki Installation. Here is the first lesson that you can undertake if you wish to beautify the default MediaWiki Installation.
Read moreLatest Books from Amazon
My latest Amazon book purchases. <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td>
Read moreAuditing an existing MySQL Installation
Yesterday I ran into an old collegue that now runs quite a successful computer store chain and highly successful web store here in Australia. Long story short he was having some MySQL problems, so I offered to pass my eye over it.
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