Now, I won’t bore you with the actual details of how I came across this - lets just skip to the explanation and example: (more…)

After working some with the open source Community building application Elgg, I found some settings to be irritating. I had to keep hacking my plugins to get these settings activated the way I wanted. Also, I really wanted to put useful settings in the same location. (more…)

I just want to make a micro blog here. Just a tiny lil blog. (more…)

Internet Explorer provides an additional border to any button element in the page if you don’t explicitly assign a 0px border to it. I have a bunch of buttons on a design that I’d like to have a 1px #fff border on. Unfortunately, with the additional border that IE adds, it looks horrible. (more…)

There are a few quick ways to monitor MySQL performance. This isn’t much of an in-depth reference, just a quick reminder. Lets look: (more…)

I am using the new PDT2 based off of Eclipse 3.4. The one thing I noticed as an issue for me was the building. I created a project based off of a checkout using SVN. After I had built the PHP project, I could not ctrl-click any of the functions that were part of my project. It just wouldn’t find them. (more…)

From time to time, I’ve been asked to make a list of my design ideas, or to develop a better proposal for an idea I have. This really irritated me: didn’t he believe me? Didn’t he trust my ideas? But in the constant battle to become a better businessman, I’ve taken a bit of time to think about why this happens. He’s not out to get me, right? Yours isn’t either. Lets take a look... (more…)

Just saw this really cool example get submitted on one of my websites testing for CSRF: (more…)

I thought I’d take some time to look at the 3 main ways that I’ve handled forgotten passwords on my websites, why I did them that way, and if there was anything wrong. (more…)

After reviewing the Google Javascript API project, I am torn. Pro’s and cons below… What do YOU think? (more…)