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Populating a Form with a dropdown (jQuery)
I thought I’d share this, maybe it’ll help somebody else. Basically this will take the value of the drop down (select) and show() that many input fields. Note: jQuery required.
How To – Control Your Computer with an Xbox Controller
Today I’m going to walk you through setting up an xbox controller to work on your computer and control the mouse / keyboard. First your going to need an Xbox Controller that works on Windows. If you already have an Xbox controller you can just pick up one of these receivers. (Both links to Amazon, [...]
CSS Code for Wrapping Long URLs and Text
Ran into the problem last night that a long email was messing up a design in smaller screen resoloutions. Perfect fix down below:
WordPress – Shortcode in PHP files
So in WordPress with plugins etc. you end up using shortcode in posts to keep things simplier, an example would be if you want to display a gallery you would just use: [galleries id="1"] However trying to this when your outside of the “WordPress Loop” [in your theme files usually] you will hit the problem [...]
Why I’m learning Perl
So this post may not be to everyones taste, its more a post to remind myself why I’ve decided to learn Perl. If anyone doesn’t know I already know PHP and some Java. Perl is a programming language, It’s Object Oriented, simple to learn and very powerful. Perl stands for: “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language” [...]
PyroCMS – CMS on the CodeIgnitor Framework
So lately I’ve been playing around with PyroCMS, for any of you who don’t know about Pyro, its basically an open source content management solution thats based on the CodeIgnitor framework. What does that mean you ask? MVC design pattern. (Model->View->Controller) Security, Cross-Site Request Forgery protection, XSS filtering and very secure password encryption. Caching, in order to achieve maximum [...]
Thinking of Imagine Wimax? Think again!
So for any of you that don’t know I switched from Digiweb to Imagine Wimax for a painstaking 8 months, after seeing them advertised on the television with “Unlimited Download” and “7mb speed” their sleek advertising [and song] got me to switch. Worst decision ever. For a start for the entire 8 months I was [...]
Why I Love Blacknight!
Blacknight haven’t gotten their deserved mention here at all I noticed today, for any of you who are unfamiliar Blacknight are a web hosting company based in Carlow. I myself have been using Blacknight for over a year and a half. [Finally every one of my domains is on Blacknight instead of across multiple register's!] [...]
Esprimo Mobile v5535 and Ubuntu 10.10
So I ended up picking up a cheap Esprimo Mobile v5535 a few days ago, long story short; laptop broke, Argos have sent it off for repairs that will take 2-3 weeks, don’t buy a laptop from Argos! Anyway the Esprimo Mobile isn’t exactly a cutting edge laptop, if you said it was outdated you [...]
Installing PEAR in WAMP
So this evening I went about attempting to install PEAR on my WAMP installation, this should be as simple as opening up a command window navigating to C:/wamp/bin/php/*phpversion* and running “go-pear.bat”, however upon doing this I ran into the following errors: phar “C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0\PEAR\go-pear.phar” does not have a signaturePHP W arning: require_once(phar://go-pear.phar/index.php): failed to open stream: pha [...]