Monthly Archives: October 2007

K2 Styles Are in…

Posted on October 30, 2007 by Daz

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 … Continue reading →

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Apple Wireless Keyboard LED at 40x Magnification

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Daz

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. more via

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Visualizing Your DBIC Schema

Posted on October 19, 2007 by Daz

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: $ … Continue reading →

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Remove Case-Sensitivity in Oracle

Posted on October 18, 2007 by Daz

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…

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It’s Official - iPhone SDK Coming Soon

Posted on October 18, 2007 by Daz

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 … Continue reading →

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Spooks

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Daz

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, … Continue reading →

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Adding/Deleting Rows in TableKit Tables

Posted on October 11, 2007 by Daz

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), … Continue reading →

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MySQL 4.X to Oracle Notes

Posted on October 11, 2007 by Daz

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 … Continue reading →

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Some Useful Catalyst Tips

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Daz

Found this small selection of tips that can come in use whilst working with Catalyst… read more

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Multi-Safari and IE

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Daz

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. via

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