Web Design from a Maine Perspective
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Posted on 05/22/2014 at 10:22 pm | Viewed 8,982 times | 1 comment
I have a loader function that I call every time I need to update ajax-ed in content. A funny thing was happening: the buttons kept growing bigger and bigger on each run of this function. The culprit: additional span tags that were causing the CSS rules to be applied multiple times. The fix: unwrap . Remove Duplicate Spans from Jquery UI...
Posted on 03/19/2014 at 10:33 pm | Viewed 10,409 times | 0 comments
I'm working on the latest API of the Rackspace Cloudfiles API (php-opencloud). I've had a bear of a time figuring everything out. I think I was making it too complicated (plus I was starting on an older version of the PHP SDK... but that's another story). Now that I'm figuring out the API, the Rackspace PHP developers have done a really good...
Posted on 03/17/2014 at 08:43 pm | Viewed 11,767 times | 0 comments
Get the Windows Installer for Composer If you are on Windows and want to install Composer, no worries, there is a quick (and easy) Windows installer for Composer . Add PHP Folder to System Path This is supposedly done by the Composer installer, but I couldn't get the darn thing running the first few tries, so I did this manually. I added...
Posted on 03/17/2014 at 11:02 am | Viewed 10,601 times | 0 comments
I've been looking for some magical mysql query code to allow me to detect duplicate records, based on multiple columns being the same MySQL Query to Detect Duplicate Rows (based on multiple fields) SELECT * FROM screwed_up_table GROUP BY field1, field2 HAVING count(*) > 1 That's it. Piece of cake. I usually use this code to get the values of...
Posted on 03/11/2014 at 10:55 pm | Viewed 8,924 times | 0 comments
This is a quick note about how to reset the font being applied to a particular CSS selector. I always forget about this, so I wanted to post my answer so I'll remember it. Reset CSS Font-Family Declaration The code is very easy. The only prerequisite is that you have defined the font-family you actually want to use at a higher level (or a...
Posted on 02/10/2014 at 12:36 pm | Viewed 9,712 times | 0 comments
Be Cautious Using Conversion Tracking Scripts Supplied by Vendors We recently experienced a small challenge with the Facebook Conversion Tracking script. We were using the standard boiler plate script as provided to developers by facebook. What's touted as a simple method to integrate conversion tracking may not work if you actually want to...
Posted on 12/31/2013 at 10:11 am | Viewed 10,742 times | 0 comments
Can't' Connect via SSH to Your Web Server? Me too. I just spent too long troubleshooting why I couldn't connect to my web server over SSH (the standard SSH port is 22). I tried everything I could think of. I whitelisted my IP in ControlPanel Hulk and I allowed my IP through the ConfigServer Firewall. Nothing worked. Then, I tried something...
Posted on 12/18/2013 at 11:10 am | Viewed 27,664 times | 0 comments
Download the Fixed Curl Version Short Answer: you need to download and install the corrected version of libCurl for PHP to get it working on 64-bit versions of PHP. Download from this link: http://www.anindya.com/php-5-4-3-and-php-5-3-13-x64-64-bit-for-windows/ Helpful Hint for those who Already Have PHP Installed Scroll ALL THE WAY...
Posted on 11/07/2013 at 01:39 pm | Viewed 10,853 times | 0 comments
Every time I add a new record to a tree it was added to the end of the list. This is OK for small lists, but once you get a big list, it's impossible to find things. It would be great if we could sort the tree list by the displayField... and you can: Reorder CakePHP Trees It's easy with the built in function (although it might take a while...
Posted on 09/20/2013 at 01:27 pm | Viewed 12,138 times | 0 comments
Quick Link to GeoTrust Intermediate Certificate Update: 1/2/2015 - GeoTrust has changed how it signs QuickSSL Premium security certificates, so you need a new GeoTrust Intermediate CA (for RSA SHA-2). I'm sick of googling for this: here is the link to the intermediate certificate bundle for GeoTrust security certificates: ...
