Ninedays Blog

Trying to find inspiration for a new project that won’t be so much content-heavy as it will need to be easy to update. I’m thinking a magazine look and feel using Wordpress will be the best solution but let’s delve a little deeper into some of the popular Wordpress magazine-like themes.

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Somehow I ended up at the 1990 US census and I realized what a valuable data resource it is! All kinds of data that I can use to make a well structured MySQL playground to test new scripts and ideas on.

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Take a query string and save the values to a cookie using JavaScript. A perfect solution for tracking query string’s values throughout a site that isn’t using any server side scripting.

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In order to query the users with birthdays from my MySQL table I had to convert Unix timestamps saved as integers to a more usable DATETIME format, then we explore two ways to query the birthdays.

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Major Valentines day updates to the Chumby control panel including music updates, touch screen enhancements as well as a custom alarm clock. Just what this doctor ordered. Check out my review of some of the changes.

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Setting, updating retrieving and deleting cookies with JavaScript is a whole lot easier than I remembered. I’ve not got a quick library of functions available at my fingertips for such actions, wanna see?

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While using the Really Easy Validation JavaScript validation library I’ve accumulated a few custom validations that for US phone numbers, US zip codes, Canadian postal codes as well as replacing empty fields or fields that don’t contain a numeric value. Good stuff!

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Graceful degradation is something that really needs to be considered when it comes to server side scripting. What happens to your drop down menu, your fly-out magic or your ajax functionality when JavaScript is no longer enabled?

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