Fbloggs Geekdom » fbloggs http://www.fbloggs.com Duncan's musings on tech related topics Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:29:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Asus eee netbook tip: How to turn the camera on or off http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/07/13/asus-eee-netbook-tip-how-to-turn-the-camera-on-or-off/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/07/13/asus-eee-netbook-tip-how-to-turn-the-camera-on-or-off/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:35:23 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/?p=88 I own an Asus eee 900HA, running XP. I was expecting to find a hotkey sequence on the keyboard for turning on or off the built in webcam. There isn’t one. However, Asus provides a utility in the system tray…

]]> http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/07/13/asus-eee-netbook-tip-how-to-turn-the-camera-on-or-off/feed/ 19 Changed my WordPress Theme http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/06/11/changed-my-wordpress-theme/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/06/11/changed-my-wordpress-theme/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:35:06 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/?p=86 I changed it to ‘Silver is the New Black’ because I like the flexible width, and the fact that my code samples show up well (at least, when viewing the blog at 1400 x 1050 on my Dell Latitude D610…

]]> http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/06/11/changed-my-wordpress-theme/feed/ 0 How to make content private in Drupal http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/06/11/how-to-make-content-private-in-drupal/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/06/11/how-to-make-content-private-in-drupal/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:00:45 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/?p=74 http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/06/11/how-to-make-content-private-in-drupal/feed/ 10 My Favorite FireFox Plugins for Web Development http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/06/05/my-favorite-firefox-plugins-for-web-development/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/06/05/my-favorite-firefox-plugins-for-web-development/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:51:21 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/?p=68 Firebug – debug your applications. An absolute must. Best features:
  • Debugger – step through, over, etc.
  • Console log for monitoring AJAX interactions -shows parms sent, data returned, round-trip time.

  • Web Developer – fantastic CSS diagnostic

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    ]]>     http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/06/05/my-favorite-firefox-plugins-for-web-development/feed/ 1     Checked attribute of checkboxes- IE versus FireFox http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/05/28/checked-attribute-of-checkboxes-ie-versus-firefox/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/05/28/checked-attribute-of-checkboxes-ie-versus-firefox/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 00:15:36 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/?p=65 http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/05/28/checked-attribute-of-checkboxes-ie-versus-firefox/feed/ 0 CSS and Tables – Margins don't work on rows or cells (tr or td) http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/05/02/css-and-tables-margins-dont-work-on-cells/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/05/02/css-and-tables-margins-dont-work-on-cells/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 23:08:56 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/?p=60 Tables do not conform to the normal CSS box model as W3C explains .

    A consequence of this is that you cannot use the margin property for cells or rows. Citing the above page: “Internal table elements generate rectangular…

    ]]>     http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/05/02/css-and-tables-margins-dont-work-on-cells/feed/ 0     How To Check or Uncheck all checkboxes in jQuery http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/05/01/check-or-uncheck-all-checkboxes-in-jquery/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/05/01/check-or-uncheck-all-checkboxes-in-jquery/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 05:25:12 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/?p=43 This post explains how to set a group of checkboxes to checked or unchecked using jQuery 1.3, by clicking an “All” or “None” button.

    First, let’s select our group of checkboxes. I’ve seen some fairly complicated jQuery selectors for finding…

    ]]>     http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/05/01/check-or-uncheck-all-checkboxes-in-jquery/feed/ 2     How to Style the Trigger Button Image of a jQuery Datehandler http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/04/16/how-to-style-the-button-image-in-jquery-datehandler-ui/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/04/16/how-to-style-the-button-image-in-jquery-datehandler-ui/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:30:08 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/?p=28 http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/04/16/how-to-style-the-button-image-in-jquery-datehandler-ui/feed/ 11 How to scale the jQuery UI font size for just the UI widgets http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/03/03/how-to-scale-the-jquery-ui-font-size-for-just-the-ui-widgets/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/03/03/how-to-scale-the-jquery-ui-font-size-for-just-the-ui-widgets/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:24:29 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/?p=17 This post applies to jQuery UI 1.6rc6 (the preview for jQuery 1.3+), but it probably also works with earlier versions.

    If you use themeroller, or simply download the jQuery UI standard code package from the…

    ]]>     http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/03/03/how-to-scale-the-jquery-ui-font-size-for-just-the-ui-widgets/feed/ 14     Forays into PHP and MySQL http://www.fbloggs.com/2007/04/19/forays-into-php-and-mysql/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2007/04/19/forays-into-php-and-mysql/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:39:51 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/forays-into-php-and-mysql/ I’ve just started working extensively with PHP and MySQL.  Here’s a simple tip that took me a while to figure out (despite copious examples on PHP.net, I couldn’t find this one:

    My MySQL table has a  Timestamp (Z) field, used…

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