Snippet: Parse a plain text email to a clickable link with jQuery
This is pretty simple to do and definitely helps the everyday user enter their email in a regular text box. I basically check all p tags for an email address using a regular expression and then add an...
View ArticleSnippet: Query to find dupes in a MySQL table
Wrote this today and thought it might be useful for someone else. It compares the table against itself and tells you if there are any values are identical. Here’s the SQL: SELECT * FROM tablename tn...
View ArticleHow I synced 2 installs of XBMC with MySQL to provide the best home...
I love XBMC and how it handles all the metadata and organization for you in a slick interface. I’ve blogged about XBMC a number of times but I wanted to do something more… hackery. Something that...
View ArticleSnippet: Nearest Location Finder using MySQL
If you have a bunch of locations (with long/lat coordinates) in a DB, it might be useful for the user to find the nearest location to their current location. You can do this with MySQL using this...
View ArticleTutorial: How to create custom map annotations with Appcelerator
One of the most lacking features (in my opinion) in Titanium is the ability to customize how your annotations look on your map. You can only give it a local image (or leave it as a pin) and you can’t...
View ArticleSnippet: Get the next and previous MySQL row via ID
This can be handy to create some previous/next links for different page entries. Previous ID SELECT * FROM foo WHERE id = (SELECT MAX(id) FROM foo WHERE id < '.$id.') Next ID SELECT * FROM foo WHERE...
View ArticleThe best way to run IE on a Mac
I use a Mac primarily for development. Mostly because I got pulled into making an iOS app (and Apple won’t let you develop on any other platforms than theirs for that, of course), but I really started...
View ArticleQuery of the day: Meal Times
I have a table like this: id name starttime endtime 1 Breakfast 01:00:00 11:00:00 2 Lunch 11:00:00 16:00:00 3 Dinner 16:00:00 23:00:00 This query will figure out which time range the current time fits...
View ArticleSnippet: Remove item from Array in PHP
To find the string ‘foo’ inside the array $array and remove it, you can do this. unset($array[array_search('foo', $array)]);
View ArticleSnippet: Group By with Collections in BackboneJS
Here’s a way to group your collection data via exact attribute values using BackboneJS and UnderscoreJS. this.categories = _.groupBy(this.collection.models, function(row) { return...
View Article