If you are creating a web app for the iPhone there is an easy to to hide the address bar when opening the page from a link on the users home screen. You simply need to add the following meta tag to your
head. This will also work with the iPad.
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<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" [...]
While working in PHP I found the need to fill an array with new objects on the fly. So at first I tried the array_fill function that worked fine for values but when I tried an object I found it was the same object in every position meaning if I modified one they all changed. [...]
We were trying to trim white space from a column that had some newlines. The problem was the oracle trim() was only removing spaces. We found that we had to do two Replace operations Replace(col,char(10),”) and Replace(col,char(13),”) one for linefeed and one for newline. I switch between many Languages and I found it annoying I [...]
While using wget with authorization to download some data you may run into the problem of having a special character such as ‘>’ in your password. It’s a simple fix of wrapping your password in quotes. But the only error message that this problem will give is an authentication failure.
So I encountered this odd error while working with the Crystal Reports XI Java Report Viewer. It showed up as “java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Implementing class” this has been one of the more cryptic messages from Java that I’ve had in a while. So a quick search turned up that this error can occur when parts of [...]
I have taken over support of a Python CGI application, no big deal seems like an ok code base and the fixes seem simple. The first fix that needed to be done was a very simple change to some wording which required me to change a cgi file so I made the change tested it [...]
I’ve been building a web based application that uses Ajax and other JavaScript extensively. While working with adding rows to tables dynamically I’ve found the wrong way to do it and thought I should share. When adding rows to tables if the rows are simply data this method will work fine, but when the rows [...]
Some of my recent experiences in a project that never seems to end. With this project I was acting as a programmer and the client was contracting our services to finish an already started project that was never completed. The release date has slipped but not by much so far.