Developing Archive

  • Problems extending CodeIgniter libraries?

    Problems extending CodeIgniter libraries?

    CodeIgniter (CI), an open source web application framework that helps you write kick-ass PHP programs, allows you to extend native CI libraries with your own freshly baked functionality. I was having problems extending the form validation library, CI_Form_validation, while writing functions for generating forms using the validation rules set for CI_Form_validation. The validation rules can be [...]

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  • And… more and more nice icons!

    And… more and more nice icons!

    Right here, at backtoessentials.com. A nice overview of some nice icons!

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  • Still getting Unicode errors with FreeTDS?

    Still getting Unicode errors with FreeTDS?

    For some project, I’ve build a webshop in PHP, with a MS SQL 2005 database. I hear you thinking, why didn’t you use some MySQL of PostgreSQL database? Well, the MS SQL database is used by SAP to store product information etcetera, so another database wasn’t an option. So, no problems, just installed php5-sybase on [...]

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  • jSQL

    jSQL

    I ran into some cool javascript, hacked together by Matt Hackett. He was disappointed in jQuery because he expected it to be some kind of SQL for javascript. After he discovered what jQuery in fact is, he decided to throw some javascript together, and jSQL was born. Using jSQL, you can talk to your DOM [...]

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  • Vim Color Scheme Test

    Vim Color Scheme Test

    Just some cool link for comparing different Vim Color Schemes: * Click * Thanks todsah for sharing this link with me!

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  • Nice icons, finally

    Nice icons, finally

    As a developer you’re always looking for nice, good looking, free, icons. My whole life i’ve been looking for an icon set containing icons that are usable for any kind of purpose, and those icons needed to be small and not too eye-catching, as icons just help to find your way through an application. Well, [...]

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  • The history of user agent strings

    The history of user agent strings

    History sucks, but, just for you guys some little entertainment… “And Microsoft feared Firefox greatly, and Internet Explorer returned, and called itself Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0) and it rendered good code, but only if webmasters commanded it to do so.” Have fun with history, check out this article!

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  • jQuery autocomplete, packed with packer!

    jQuery autocomplete, packed with packer!

    I’ve been using this autocomplete plugin for a while, it works great. For almost every jQuery plugin there is a packed version supplied, but not for this one, so I decided to pack it myself. But whoops… Javascript errors occured when using the packed version of the plugin. After adding a few semicolons the file [...]

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