garywaddell
Connecting to and Testing Oracle
Let me first start by saying, I am not an Oracle expert. I learn what I need to in order to get things done. I don’t go digging into learning Oracle proactively, frankly because I am not a huge fan of it, I still prefer DB2, but enough of that This blog simply talks about [...]
CSS Background Image Hacks
Great article on CSS some great things you can do with CSS Background Images: http://nicolasgallagher.com/css-background-image-hacks/
Captcha Alternatives
This article gives a great summary of using Captcha alternatives. http://blogs.sitepoint.com/captcha-alternatives/
Opacity in CSS
I came across a nice article here that sums up using opacity (ie on images) that works nicely in most browsers. http://www.quirksmode.org/css/opacity.html The article summarizes it this way, use the following CSS properties to better support IE versions: .opaque { -ms-filter:”progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=50)”; // first! filter: alpha(opacity=50); // second! }
Eclipse DLTK Index Slowness
I have found a number of times that the DLTK index kicks off during my Eclipse Helios session and sometimes can hang. What I did to fix this was to remove the files (database index files) in this folder: <workspace folder>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.dltk.core.index.sql.h2/
iFrames and WordPress
Unfortunately, WordPress does not allow you to insert iframes into an Article or Page. You’ll need to install an embed iframe plugin into WordPress (http://de77.com/other/wordpress-iframe-embedder). Working Example using [ iframe http://www.onmiddleground.ca/index.html 640px 350], remember to remove the space before the word iframe:
sed – replace text in multiple files
To replace foo with foo_bar in all PHP files, use this command: sed -i ‘s/foo/foo_bar/g’ *.php
Eclipse PDT Debugger – Firefox, Mac – Browser Already Open
If you’ve used Eclipse PDT and you’ve tried launching Firefox as an external browser, you may find at times that Firefox rejects multiple instances of a browser session running by challenging you with a popup. The way around this is to launch the Eclipse Preferences, select General | Web Browser | Use external web browser. [...]
Excellent Lightbox Alternative – PiroBox
I found this URL giving a full list of the available Lightbox alternatives as they are growing in interest everyday. http://planetozh.com/projects/lightbox-clones/ I’ve used a number of these plugins, but the one I was very impressed with is PiroBox as it offers a draggable image http://www.pirolab.it/pirobox/
Websphere SOAPElement ClassCastExceptions
Well if you’ve spent hours trying to figure out why your code generates anything to do with SOAPElement ClassCastExceptions, you probably have a classloader issue with conflicting JARs in your WAS classpath. Take a look thru your JAR files being loaded in the Server JVM, WEB-INF/lib and the Shared Libraries for any classes that are [...]
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