Aaron Saray

open source programmer,
web developer

entrepreneur, author
and musician

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Monthly Archives: April 2009

IE JS Error: Expected identifier, string or number

I just ran into this a bunch – works fine in FireFox … of course. Well apparently, Internet Explorer won’t allow you to have a trailing comma in a array or object definition. Let me show you: ?View Code JAVASCRIPT1 … Continue reading

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Flash of Unstyled Content – in FireFox 3

So I’ve heard of the Flash of Unstyled Content before – but never really had this problem. I always use a LINK tag for my stylesheets. However, I just ran into it today – in FireFox even with a LINK … Continue reading

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Licensing of Code

Up until now, I have not licensed my code properly. I’m going to try to do so from now on. How is this code licensed? The BSD license is how I’m going to proceed: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BSD/

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Elgg Development Tools – Elgg Plugin

After working some with the open source Community building application Elgg, I found some settings to be irritating. I had to keep hacking my plugins to get these settings activated the way I wanted. Also, I really wanted to put … Continue reading

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When PHP's dirname() saved the day

Now, I won’t bore you with the actual details of how I came across this – lets just skip to the explanation and example: First, even when it makes ‘sense’, you should not be using relative paths in your command … Continue reading

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Form Submit: Internet Explorer behaving badly

I just want to make a micro blog here. Just a tiny lil blog. Internet Explorer Does Not Submit Form on Enter Correct! Instead, I load my page with this jquery ?View Code PHP1 2 3 4 5 6   … Continue reading

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Remove Internet Explorer Button Border

Internet Explorer provides an additional border to any BUTTON element in the page if you don’t explicitly assign a 0px border to it. i have a bunch of buttons on a design that I’d like to have a 1px #fff … Continue reading

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Quick Reference: Simple MySQL Performance Monitoring

There are a few quick ways to monitor MySQL performance. This isn’t much of an in-depth reference, just a quick reminder. Lets look: mysqladmin status Shows a quick status: mysqladmin status Uptime: 102594 Threads: 1 Questions: 39 Slow queries: 0 … Continue reading

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Eclipse PDT2 won't jump to functions/classes on ctrl-click: solved

I am using the new PDT2 based off of Eclipse 3.4. The one thing I noticed as an issue for me was the building. I created a project based off of a checkout using SVN. After I had built the … Continue reading

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