JET Technical

PHP and Microsoft Excel

PHP and Microsoft Excel I recently had a customer that required a report that could have been generated to HTML or PDF. However, what they really needed was information exported in a specific manner and format from their postgreSQL database for further analysis. HTML and PDF would not have given the flexibility to properly review [...]

Speghetti Code or Proper Refactoring. Where’s the line?

I posted this question to one of my groups in Linked In. The response was so incredible and most of the answers were right on so I thought I’d share. This particular subject is quite a hot button with programmers. So use it either as a guideline for your own coding or remember when you’re [...]

DocShare II Releases Today

The newest version of DocShare was released today.

This already popular software just got faster to run, easier to use, and with added security.

Coming soon....Online Live Demo

One document, one storage place, multi-user
Looks are deceiving...to the user, a window's explorer but that's where the similarity ends.
One document, multi-level security controls
Document version control
Platform independent

JQuery Horizontal Menu Example and Template

Thought I'd post this simple jQuery menu sample code for those of you just starting out in jQuery.

It's a very simplistic file and consists of 3 files and a reference to the actual jQuery javascript library.

The textarea tag and innerHTML and Firefox

innerHTML is a common way to return the value of an html tag. I was recently working with an AJAX / JQuery application and all was going well. However, the <u>innerHTML method wasn't returning anything with a textarea tag</u>. All of the other values were coming through just fine with the identical code.

VMware’s ESXI Hidden Service Console

As anyone that has worked with VMware’s ESXI Server they know that the service console has been stripped out (unlike the ESX version). There are many benefits to this – fewer patches, less overhead, and greater security. With ESXI, the “console” as it’s called, is a simple yellow and black menu driven text interface with [...]

Windows XP Registry Hacks

Now I know that Windows XP is headed out and on the down side of being supported. Though I recently found this great website that will show you how to do just about anything you want to do when it comes to tweaking Windows XP http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

jQuery Selectors

One of jQuery's specialties is letting you select page elements so you can work with them. Selecting page elements is a big part of online work. In jQuery your able to select by descendants, by children, by specific text, by attribute, by attribute value, and even by position all by just one simple line of code changed based on what your selecting.

WordPress announces end of support for PHP4 and MySQL4

This announcement was released last Friday on the WordPress.org site by Mark Jaquith. PHP 4 and mySQL 4 will no longer be supported after the 3.1 release of WordPress coming in September 2010. PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement

Windows Presentation Format

Getting ahead with WPF

For those of you who haven't taken the time to explore WPF, you should definately put this at the top of your "to do" list as it becomes more widely held as a programming standard.

Windows Presentation Foundation (or WPF) is a graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications. WPF, previously known as "Avalon", was initially released as part of .NET Framework 3.0. Since that time it has become a widely held as a programming standard. Silverlight utilizes WPF to provide embedded web controls similar to Adobe Flash,