Developing in SproutCore with Mountain Lion 25 Feb 2012 | 02:24 pm

So Apple released Mountain Lion, and everybody who cares on the interwebs knows that there is a shift with Xcode. (thanks MacRumors!) It’s now just an app like everything else. Cool. BUT, this hoses ...

Drop-in jQuery placeholder fix 5 Feb 2011 | 10:19 am

If you want to enable the “placeholder” attribute of input boxes in browsers that don’t support it, simply download this file, and include it anywhere on your page. It will copy the native functionali...

Required Reading for Creating and Deploying a WCF REST Service on IIS7 10 Nov 2010 | 11:03 am

Deploying a REST service with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is great, because it’s very powerful, but it can also be enormously frustrating. First of all, start by reading the whitepaper. h...

Cinema Display Warping 9 Nov 2010 | 11:03 am

Ahh! My beautiful cinema display (just over a year old) is warping at the edge. I just noticed it this morning, I’m not sure how long it’s been like that, but once you see it, it really cannot be un-s...

Select DataSet and number of total rows with one stored procedure 12 Aug 2010 | 05:16 am

when you want to write a search using .net and MSSQL, it’s a pain. This is because you’re forced to select every row in the table and then only display a small subset of it. This works okay for tables...

MySQL Duplicate Function 10 Jul 2010 | 05:13 am

Sometimes you want the ability to duplicate (clone) entities in mySQL. But duplicating their children can be a huge pain! Here’s how: /* parent table */ insert into [parent table] select 0, [field1...

WordPress Multi Page Posts 24 Jun 2010 | 04:57 am

So, multi paged posts in WordPress. That would be a handy feature, right? Well it turns out it’s been around since at least 2007. Just found out about it today though. “How do I use it?” you ask? Si...

Batch Delete Performance SQL Server 18 Jun 2010 | 05:38 am

Deleting old records from a table with > 3 000 00 rows. What’s the best way to do this? It seems the fastest way to do this is simply to: delete from [table] where creation_timestamp < dateadd (mm, ...

No lol’ing allowed 12 May 2010 | 08:37 am

Xcode Fix Recent Projects Empty 16 Apr 2010 | 11:30 am

Terminal Command: defaults write com.apple.Xcode NSRecentDocumentsLimit -int 10 Relaunch Xcode. Done.