Oct/070
K2 Styles Are in…
My old styles for Wordpress blogs and K2 are now up - head on over to the goodies section to take a look at Bix, Chameleon, Coffee, Penguin, Slick, Sparkle and Stripe. (Note: They might be in need of a bit of an update to work with the latest releases of K2 - i’ll get around to that at some point).
Oct/070
Apple Wireless Keyboard LED at 40x Magnification
You know… I HAD been wondering this!!!
Ever wonder how the power LED shows through the aluminum of Apple’s new wireless keyboard when it’s on, but blends into the metal when it’s off? Here’s how.
Oct/070
Visualizing Your DBIC Schema
What a great idea - will give this a bash next week…
If you want a somewhat pretty picture of your DBIC schema (with relationships drawn, of course), install GraphViz, SQL::Translator, and DBICx::Deploy from the CPAN, and then run:
$ dbicdeploy -Ilib MyApp::Schema ~/graphs GraphViz~/graphs will then contain a .sql file that is actually a png of your schema. Rename it and see your schema in your favorite png viewing application.
Oct/070
Remove Case-Sensitivity in Oracle
Oracle is a great RDBMS, but the fact that searches against the database are case-sensitive can be a pain in the butt. Here’s how you can make searches case-insensitive…
Oct/070
It’s Official - iPhone SDK Coming Soon
Great news! Straight from the horses mouth, (well, Steve’s anyway) Apple have announced that an iPhone SDK will be coming in February.
Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.
Update: if that dissapears (as there seems to be no permalink for this article), have a read of Mac Rumors copy of the whole article.
Oct/070
Spooks
One of the only shows on TV worth watching these days came back onto the BBC last night, bloody hell was it good!
If you’ve never seen or even heard of spooks before, get yourself over to the wikipedia entry, read up about it, watch the catch up clip of last nights episode and be there next Tuesday at 9pm, BBC1!
Oct/070
Adding/Deleting Rows in TableKit Tables
This post has now been updated. Please head over to the new post for something better…
Following on from my previous post on how to integrate the excellent TableKit into your Catalyst webapp (to make your data tables dynamically editable), here’s how i’ve gone about adding ajax inserts and deletes so that you can add and remove data rows in your tables.1
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You’ll need the code from the previous post to follow along. ↩
Oct/070
MySQL 4.X to Oracle Notes
Stumbled across this useful page full of examples and notes on how MySQL 4.x and Oracle differ, and how you can avoid complications if you want to migrate a database between the two…
About once a year I need to migrate a medium-sized web application using MySQL to Oracle.
Usually it’s to prepare a successful intranet application for a move to a formally supported production environment - and in Silicon Valley, that usually means Oracle.
I was apologizing to Monty at OSCON this year about my latest migration project away from MySQL.
His surprising response was, “It’s not a bad thing. I don’t mind hearing about conversions because successful migrations demonstrate that people don’t have to worry about database lock-in.”
Here’s some notes on doing migrations.
Oct/070
Some Useful Catalyst Tips
Found this small selection of tips that can come in use whilst working with Catalyst…
Oct/070
Multi-Safari and IE
Useful tools for when you’re web developing… Been using the Multi-IE for a while, but now some bright chap has made it possible to run multiple versions of Safari on your Mac.