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ajax-proxy: A PHP AJAX Proxy with Cookie Support
A common annoyance in the world of AJAX is the ol’ cross-domain request error. That is, a script sitting on domain1.example.com can’t make AJAX calls to domain2.example.com. This is in place for the sake of security, but sometimes developers have legitimate reasons to do so.
A common workaround is writing a server-side script that will sit [...]
How To Get A Job As A Programmer
It seems that for the better part of my life, America’s economy has been in murky water. I was born into a Reagan economy (good), graduated to Bush Sr. (bad), did my time with Clinton (good), and started looking for jobs as a developer during Bush Jr.’s tenure (bad). And while I’ll abstain from the [...]
USTORE.js: Cross-Browser Local and Session Storage Made Easy
I tend to get so wrapped up in the server-side portion of web applications, I probably don’t keep tabs on front-end tips and tricks as well I should. Luckily I work with some of the best client-side developers I’ve ever met over at HUGE, and I generally get exposed to new front-end marvels whether I [...]
How To Get Your NYC Teacher Certification Fingerprints For Your TEACH Account
This post is somewhat of a sequel to my previous post, How To Get Livescan Fingerprints in NYC. Since that entry was oriented specifically towards getting Livescan fingerprints, I wanted to cover the larger issue at hand: The reason so many people are in this dilemma, and how to get out of it.
Read this article if:
You [...]
How To Get Livescan Fingerprints In NYC
It’s obvious that this is a tech blog, and this isn’t a tech-oriented post. But I know there are a lot of people who are in the same situation as I was yesterday.
Update: How To Get Your NYC Teacher Certification Fingerprints For Your TEACH Account
My girlfriend needed to get her fingerprints taken so she could [...]
My Honest Consumer Opinion of the iPad: Who Cares?
I can’t speak for the whole of technology consumers when I say that the Apple iPad, which debuted a few days ago in Apple’s Keynote, doesn’t seem terribly interesting. I’ll admit that I tend to roll on gut instinct when gauging the success of a potential product. I’ve done it as both a member of [...]
MiFi – An Aircard Alternative for Linux, Mac & Windows
I intend to finish my previous post about fixing up caching in CodeIgniter, but I wanted to write a blurb about a device that I just picked up today — the MiFi. I thought I should mention some of the highlights of the product, some points that weren’t immediately apparent when I was researching it, [...]
Flushing CodeIgniter’s URI-based Cache (Part I)
CodeIgniter’s output caching mechanism — at least in my opinion — has limited usefulness. It can be used to cache the final payload sent to the user for a given number of minutes. But sometimes clearing the cache for all pages or a specific page can be useful, especially if keeping the user from seeing [...]
Insert Multiple Rows Into A Database with CodeIgniter
When using a spiffy web application framework like CodeIgniter for PHP, I tend to start depending on the framework for a lot of functions.
For example, if I want to get the segments of the URI, I first think, “CodeIgniter must have that!” If I want a function to convert input from a <textarea> into correctly [...]
Add Files to Subversion Recursively
Adding a directory and sub-directories to your subversion repo: I’ve seen some wacky solutions to this problem online, and a lot of people don’t know this is a built-in command (Google “add files to subversion recursively”).
Since CodeFury has been getting pretty high in the Google listings, I’ll post the real command. Hopefully subversion users will [...]
