http://www.tequilafish.com Ran-dumb ramblings of me... Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:48:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So today Apple unveiled iPhone 2.0. The whole Internets is abuzz about how much it sucks or how much it rules or how we wish technology could improve faster or how we hate it when it does. For some reason, my mind wasn't really on iPhone 2.0 today. ... http://www.tequilafish.com/2008/06/10/the-4th-leg/ New Rule: Dissent is the sincerest form of Patriotism. Ask the founding fathers. http://www.tequilafish.com/2008/04/18/patriotism-part-ii/ New rules: Wearing a $1.99 flag pin Made in China does not make you a Patriot. Putting a $1.99 ribbon sticker Made in China on your car does not make you a supporter of the troops. http://www.tequilafish.com/2008/04/17/patriotism/ When attempting to implement Dylan Verheul's excellent auto-complete jQuery plugin on a project, I ran into problems due to the fact that we are using noConflict mode for jQuery by calling noConflict(); A few quick minutes poking around jquery.autocomplete.js and I had updated it to work in both noConflict ... http://www.tequilafish.com/2008/03/09/jquery-using-autocompletejs-plugin-in-noconflict-mode/ I received the following in my Apache error_log when attempting to load the ionCube loader in my php.ini file: PHP Fatal error: [ionCube Loader] The Loader must appear as the first entry in the php.ini file in Unknown on line 0 This is because ionCube must be loaded before any of ... http://www.tequilafish.com/2008/02/18/php-ioncube-loader-the-loader-must-appear-as-the-first-entry-in-the-phpini-file-in-unknown-on-line-0/ Here's a step-by-step guide to installing a network printer in Windows XP without having to install all the additional crappy software that vendors force onto your system. Often times installing all this additional software will compromise the stability of your system, slow it down, or both. These steps ... http://www.tequilafish.com/2007/12/21/howto-install-a-networked-printer-without-all-that-crappy-software/ These days, religion and politics seem to be one in the same. The line has been blurred so much that I sure as hell don't see a line any more. Most issues are constantly debated in terms of the Bible, whether its abortion ("life is sacred and granted ... http://www.tequilafish.com/2007/12/18/immigration-the-bible-leviticus-comes-back-to-haunt-conservatives/ I ran into trouble when trying to pass a urlencode()'ed plus sign into a web address being processed by mod_rewrite. $url = 'http://www.server.com/browsealpha/name+has+plus+in+it/'; $url = urlencode($url); // http://www.server.com/browsealpha/name%2Bhas%2Bplus%2Bin%2Bit/ This $url variable gets echo()'d as a link in a page, so once it's clicked and loaded in the browser, I then needed mod_rewrite to ... http://www.tequilafish.com/2007/12/06/mod_rewrite-php-how-to-match-urlencoded-plus-sign/ Say you have an HTML <select> form element and you want to set another <select> element equal to the first one when it changes. Here's an easy way to do so with jQuery: $('#id_of_select1').change(function() {     var select1_value = $(this).val();     $('#id_of_select2').val(select1_value); }); ---------------- Now playing: Drexciya - Astronomical Guidepost via FoxyTunes http://www.tequilafish.com/2007/12/04/jquery-how-to-set-one-select-element-to-the-value-of-another-using-onchange-equivalent/ Say you want to know the ID of your current jQuery object. You can achieve this easily using jQuery's attr() method: var current_id = $(this).attr('id'); This will only work provided that you have a valid jQuery object $(this) that you are working with, eg: $(document).ready(function() {   $('input.text').focus(function() {     $('input.text').removeClass('onFocus'); /* remove focus state ... http://www.tequilafish.com/2007/12/04/jquery-how-to-get-the-id-of-your-current-object/