Archive for January, 2007

B2B: Ajax in JQuery with special effects

Posted by michael on January 31st, 2007 under Code, Javascript
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Today’s article is going to cover using the excellent JQuery library to implement an AJAX username availability checker (along with a bit of eye candy to show the results). The use of visual effects with AJAX can occasionally be quite tricky, depending on what you need to do - fades by definition will take a [...]

Delay

Posted by michael on January 26th, 2007 under General
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The rest of the articles have been delayed; unfortunately work caught up with me. The JQuery/AJAX is half-written and should be up tomorrow along with another article.

B2B: Testing and defining variables in PHP

Posted by michael on January 23rd, 2007 under Code, MySQL
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PHP is a dynamic, weakly-typed language, and as such, beginners to the language will often find their code acting unpredictably because of assumptions they have made.
PHP has a fairly low entry point for new programmers - it’s easy enough to get a couple of small sample scripts up and running, but on the same token, [...]

B2B: MySQL Joins and Foreign Keys

Posted by michael on January 23rd, 2007 under Code
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Welcome to the first of five articles in the Web Expose Back to Basics project. Each article is going to cover a seperate and distinct topic, with the aim of providing worthwhile beginner tutorials to aid in furthering your web development skills.
The topic for today is using the popular MySQL database to logically store and [...]

Annoying, uncommon bugs

Posted by james on January 19th, 2007 under Internet Explorer, Javascript
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This post is dedicated to those little bugs that only seem to happen to your project, and no one else on the Internet. Luckily, this wasn’t completely the case this time, as I did manage to find some links after modifying my search query numerous times.
First of all, something arbitrary:
Prototype 1.5.0_rc2’s AJAX works in IE, [...]