Archive for the ‘WebDev’ Category

Optimal Setup for SyntaxHighlighter & TinyMCE

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

My favorite Javascript-based WYSIWYG editor is TinyMCE. I find it the most visually appealing, and the most well constructed from all of the offerings available on the Internet. When posting code for others to see, I prefer using SyntaxHighlighter. This javascript-based formatting tool by Alex Gorbatchev allows you to put the ...

Ajax Progress Image Generator

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

I was in need of an Ajax-style animated gif that could be used to indicate that something is going on in the background or loading. I have seen them on hundreds of sites, but I don't feel comfortable just copying someone else's image to use for myself. After a bit of ...

Visual Studio 2005 Add-Ins and Tools That I Use

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

I am right now in the middle (about 20% and 18K lines of code through) a pretty substantial Windows Forms project using Visual Studio 2005 (C#). Here are some of the add-ins that I have been using (ranked in order of essential to useful):

Deciphering PHP Error Messages and Blank Screens

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

My normal home is Visual Studio, ASP.net (1.1/2.0) and C#, with some CSS, HTML and JavaScript thrown in. Over the past week however, I have been working on an add-on to a client site written in PHP (using mySql as a DB backend). I am coding in Dreamweaver and am ...

Forget the Password for IUSR?

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

I was changing around the Directory Security for an ASP.net page. In the process of doing this, the IUSR account was removed. After fixing the problem, I wanted to set the Anonymous Access for the website back to IUSR. Unfortunately, I needed the password for the IUSR account in order ...

Preview Your Links with Unobtrusive JavaScript

Monday, August 1st, 2005

Nifty JavaScript from ParticleTree that appends a little image to a link if it links to a specific document or site (ie: pdf, doc, xls, amazon, etc).