Tag Archives: javascript

Another Bad Experience With Edge Browser

Microsoft has been trying really hard to jam Edge browser down everyone’s throats. Kind of reminds me of the old days with Internet Explorer. As a web developer, in the old days (really not too distant a past), we had … Continue reading

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MySQL Difference Between Dates In Days, Hours, Minutes

I was researching how to make a JavaScript countdown timer for a personal webpage, because that’s the only way to go if you want interactivity (client-side scripting at its best), and I thought, ‘how can I do this in MySQL?’ … Continue reading

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Working With XML/XSLT, JSON, And PHP

So, this tale, which for your sake I will attempt to make brief, is typical of my experiences in web development. As one of my old bosses used to say (and I’m paraphrasing), “if there’s a hard way to do … Continue reading

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Having Conversations With Javascript

Have you ever wanted wanted to animate inanimate objects? I think we all have. Well, that’s a lot of work. A cheat that you can employ, however, is relatively easy with javascript and or jquery. No, I’m not talking about … Continue reading

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Graphing With Flot

I was working on one of my personal projects, graphing data with PHP, when I ran into a wall. Sure, with PHP, you can get all your data (in the words of some famous poet: database, oh database, how do … Continue reading

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Towns In Connecticut – Highlighting Mapped Regions Of An Image With jQuery

Having lived most of my adult life in another part of the country, I am often at a loss when towns/cities are mentioned (say, for instance, in a job posting). Until recently, the only solution was to google or mapquest … Continue reading

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