Web Development
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HEX Codes for Flash HTML text
I recently noticed that sometimes flash gets a little crazy when trying to display certain characters, e.g. ampersand or percent sign. Here is link to a table with a bunch of ASCII and HTML char ...
More SSH/Command Line MySQL commands
I noticed that my previous post with basic MySQL SSH commands was relatively popular and I’ve been meaning to save some of the recent ones I’ve been using before I forget them, so… show full ...
Javascript Exit Popup
My team has been looking for some good exit popup code for a client and found it hard to find code that would pop an exit popup when a user was leaving the page without ...
MySQL commands (for SSH/command line use)
I hate looking this stuff up and I don’t do it enough to remember so here goes: Logging in: mysql -u <username> -p list or show all databases: show databases; open or start using database: use ...
Lightbox js-thing with PDF support (and more)
So due to the overwhelming pressure to conform and be ‘cool’ like all those other developers, I started using Lightbox2 to make that cool floaty image on top of greyed out content functionality. I must ...
Error Pages with Character
Error pages are often the most overlooked pages in terms of thought and design. Most of your users will never see an error page- so why ‘waste time’ thinking about it, right? WRONG. While they ...
Jim Rapoza’s Top Web Developer Mistakes
I don’t know Jim Rapoza. Perhaps he just enjoys irony. I came across his article on Top Web Developer Mistakes and noticed his first point was about the evils of unecessary and excessive clicks. Now ...