When transferring files between Windows and Unix you may find that on occasions your file has been modified and that ^M characters exist at end of lines.  This problem is caused when files are transferred to the server as Binary. However if you change the type to ASCII then you will find that the ^M…

Want to add Search Capabilities to your website and don’t know where to start? Then Google AJAX Search API might be for you. The AJAX Search API provided by Google enables you to embed a search box into your web pages and display the results in your webpage in your own desired format and style.…

On today’s websites it is good practice to utilize a contact form instead of a mailto link. However you will find the occasions when you find the need to add a contact reference that does not require a form. In this cases you will find that you may want to set a predefined subject or…

UPDATE: Current Release details and download available here Harvest Users may or may not be familiar with the Harvest API that can be used to access and manipulate timesheets, clients, projects, tasks, and more. Since Harvests creation they have been integrating with other 3rd party applications and to communicate information across channels they created the…

Often when developing we often get stuck in the mindset that we have to do everything in the language we are working with. When it comes to PHP this can sometimes lead to line after line of echo statements that do not contain any code but simply HTML or CSS elements. Due to the very…

Most individuals having database experience with MySQL will find shortly after using Sybase DBMS that the backslash character does not escape characters. Instead in Sybase T-SQL the single quote itself acts as the escape character. Below is a sample UPDATE statement showing the difference in escaping the single quote character in MySQL and Sybase. MySQL…

The Description Meta Tag exists to provide an overview or summary of what you will find on the current page of your web site. This element serves multiple purposes in that it can effect your Search Engine Page Ranking and that if present it is also displayed in Search Results to provide search users with…

There are often odd cases when in a Flash Application you find that by design you want to call a function but only have the name of the function as a String. This could be caused by various reasons one being that the name is stored in a database as part of some settings. To…

Apache Tiles is a Java Framework used for the templating of Web Applications. Tiles allows developers to define fragments of pages that are combined to create the whole page based on page definitions. The Tiles framework is often used in conjunction with the Apache Struts Model View Controller (MVC) framework. Below are two solutions on…

JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library or JSTL for short is a library that contains a set of core functionality including iterations and conditionals.  The tag I find myself most often using is the forEach tag to output a collection of data in a consistent format. By use of the optional status object and the if…