I’m out at the Oregon coast with my wife’s family this weekend, and my wife brought along the Wired that came in the mail on our departure day (not up on their website yet). One article in this issue is about netbooks, and that one article has been a center piece of quite a few [...]
We do very little true data entry into our systems database. Most of what we do is updating the information already in, or adding an entry to the activity log for a server. I hadn’t really given much thought to form validation, until a coworker asked for it. Once again, there is already a jQuery [...]
As I set out on re-writing the interface for my systems database, on thing I knew I wanted to implement was better sorting, and pagination. In v1 I implemented sorting through GET statements, and requerying the database according to the choice of column and direction. I used this tutorial as the basis for my own [...]
When I started in my current job about 18 months ago, I was taking over some responsibilities from a guy who had been gone for six months already. Very quickly I learned that what was documented was done pretty well, but there was quite a bit of stuff that wasn’t documented. Beyond the lack of [...]
If you do any kind of work that requires S/FTP, you know the hassle of marking up your local copy, saving, uploading, and checking the result. I know it drives me batty to have to do all of that up-and-down crap. And sure, I can use vi in the command shell, and I do regularly, [...]