Useful SQL Commands
In the late 1990's I took several professional development courses at a WPI satellite school, which eventually led to my current career track as a...
Fascinating argument on the PHP mailing list
This thread from the PHP-DEV mailing list is a bit old now (Nov 2005), but fascinating none the less. When PHP 5.1 was released, an...
Quick points on accessibilty
In a recent post, Bruce Lawson, a member of the Accessibility Task Force and notable funny-guy, gives the following pointers on accessibility: Accessibility is not...
<abbr> in IE (Abbreviations in Internet Explorer)
Point 1: Internet Explorer (at least as of version 6) doesn’t even know what to do with the abbr (abbreviation) tag, and ignores it entirely....
Changing the primary key field in an Access Database
A colleague of mine wrote to ask me for advice with updating a 50,000 record strong Access database. The database was originally built to use...
Clean And Close Extension for Firefox
I just created my first extension for Firefox. I call it Clean And Close, and it’s a simple overlay for the Download Manager window that...