Category Archives: Web Development

Creating Javascript Widgets

Posted on December 4, 2010 by ttessier

Creating widgets in javascript is not a new idea and is becomming more or less of a wide spread technology thanks to well used web aps like facebook, myspace and even google apps. A widget is basically a simple graphical … Continue reading →

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Javascript css float attribute

Posted on December 4, 2010 by ttessier

FYI for those of you trying to perform css float style updates programmatically, you have a little hurdle in order to apply this style correctly. Like the other style that have javascript counterparts through the use of element.style, the float … Continue reading →

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Remoting Technologies for javascript

Posted on November 24, 2010 by ttessier

There are a few remoting technologies available for javascript, and with the html5 spec will come greater possibilities. The 4 most popular technologies I can think of other than proprietary formats would be xml, json, urlencoded, yaml.

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Listing Files in a directory with too many files for ftp

Posted on November 18, 2010 by ttessier

I ran into an issue last week trying to list files in an ftp folder with over 100,000 files in it. This is a no-brainer because what happens is the data retrieval takes too long to build and spit out … Continue reading →

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Php Memory Issues when Downloading Files

Posted on November 17, 2010 by ttessier

There have been known to be issues in some download scripts when allowing large downloads – say in the 400mb range.

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Javascript Closures and Code

Posted on November 4, 2010 by ttessier

Some times it&squo;s hard to find information that is really important to development. I thought that I would include a link to a very important web page in regards to understanding the proper implementation of closures in javascript.

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Recursively Deleting a Directory and Files

Posted on October 24, 2010 by ttessier

I&squo;ve recently had to write a PHP script that needed to delete a directory and all sub directories and files within the directory. With PHP, there are functions available to delete a directory and delete a file.

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How to ZIP files with PHP

Posted on October 24, 2010 by mfrank

Most web servers these days run on a LAMP configuration (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). Because the Operating System is Linux, the default archival and compression utilities are TAR and GZIP resulting in files like “filename.tar.gz”. There is nothing wrong with … Continue reading →

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Restoring MySQL Dump with PHP

Posted on October 20, 2010 by ttessier

As web developers, we are usually tasked with deploying a project to a production server that we don&squo;t always have access to. And in most cases the projects require a database. The usual plan of action consists of running a … Continue reading →

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What is remv.php

Posted on October 20, 2010 by ttessier

What is remv.php The file remv.php is a script that MAY be found inside your website regardless if you have a CMS or not and is a popular script used to inject code into your site. This is definately not … Continue reading →

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