After rewriting most of a PHP application in Ruby on Rails, I realized I had a problem with the database. How to I get all the data from the database and put it into my rails database? The easy answer would probably be to copy it all into the /db/seeds.rb file and just migrate. But […]
One of the problems with jEditable and HAML is that HAML puts whitespace in the form automatically. So my HAML script looks like this:
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%td{ :class => 'edit_area', :id=>"#{k}_#{f}" } = format_table_value(f, v[f]) |
The problem with this in jEditable is that now once the user clicks on it, there is gobs of white space around the word. To get rid of this you […]
For the site I help out with, xcat.sf.net, I used jquery-ui tabs. The only issue I had was that I couldn’t do back button, and I started getting a few complaints from it… So, after about 20 minutes of investigation, here is the code I used to make it work. It works pretty well for […]
In CSS I always forget that when creating a box to put things in you want the box to expand with the contents that are inside of it. The secret to this I found out last year was to put overflow: auto in. Example:
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content { |
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background-color: #fff; width: 960px; margin: 0px auto; |
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overflow: auto; text-align: left; } |
The other trick was to put margin: 0px […]
I’m trying to make a php program that will authenticate users based on if they have a userid on the system. In my environment my system has a number of users who can just ssh into the machine if they want. But I am trying to make some applications available via a web interface. I […]