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Addressing Emails

By garywaddell ⋅ May 12, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

So I noticed a trend with emails that I thought would be interesting to discuss, and that is how you address someone in an email. Consider 2 simple, non-confrontational emails below and notice the main difference between them: Gary, We are in need of getting the website done by end of day Friday. Can you [...]

Planning your Vacation – The Top 10 Reminder List

By garywaddell ⋅ April 10, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

This is completely unrelated to technology but seemed a great place to put together a reminder list of things you may want to consider and plan when you are going away on vacation. Don’t Forget your Passports Bring your Wallet, make sure you have the correct currency as well Call Visa or Mastercard etc to [...]

width:auto width:100%

By garywaddell ⋅ December 7, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Great article that explains something I know I have had issues with for CSS in the past wondering the difference between width:auto and width: 100%, but not anymore http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201112/the_difference_between_widthauto_and_width100/

CKEditor – Change the background color using JavaScript

By garywaddell ⋅ November 1, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

I found a great article on how to change the background color of CKEditor on the fly. This became a great approach when performing form validation: Link is here, but for a quick reference, here’s how you reference it: this.document.$.childNodes[1].childNodes[1].style.backgroundColor = ‘Blue’; this refers to your CKEditor Instance (CKEDITOR.instances['instanceName'] or CKEDITOR.instances.formFieldIdName)

Java Decompiler

By garywaddell ⋅ September 28, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Found this Java Decompiler from a colleague. Very impressive, especially if you use Eclipse http://java.decompiler.free.fr/?q=jdgui

Getting Query String from a JSP

By garywaddell ⋅ July 21, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

public String getQueryString(HttpServletRequest req) { Object reqUrlObj = req.getAttribute(“javax.servlet.forward.query_string”); StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(“”); if (reqUrlObj != null) { result.append((String)reqUrlObj); } return result.toString(); }

CSS Background Image Hacks

By garywaddell ⋅ July 10, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Great article on CSS some great things you can do with CSS Background Images: http://nicolasgallagher.com/css-background-image-hacks/

Captcha Alternatives

By garywaddell ⋅ May 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

This article gives a great summary of using Captcha alternatives. http://blogs.sitepoint.com/captcha-alternatives/

Opacity in CSS

By garywaddell ⋅ April 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

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

By garywaddell ⋅ March 25, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

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/

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