There may be a time in the not so distant future where your employer may ask you do develop a web application which will hook up with a JSON data source. Perhaps you will be like "Uhhhhhh" and have a dumb look on your face. Have no worries, the underground is here to help! Lets use some PHP to generate some JSON code which we will fetch via AJAX and ...
I surf around a lot and like to visit other forums where people ask questions and provide answers. I explore the programming and design forums and often see tons of questions regarding "How do I make a div overlay on Myspace?" Or more importantly, how do they make an div overlay period. What are these overlays? How do you do them? And how might you use them to alter pages ...
One of the most common tasks for a web developer is implementing an AJAX solution to create a more dynamic interface. A common method is to query a database, get some results, parse the results and update the interface without needing to refresh the page. But how do we customize our data, prepare it for some parsing, use the data returned to create something useful? The other day I had ...
"Yes sir, I will take that 10,000 dollar loan. If I pay 100 dollars a month that will be $1200 dollars right there after my first year." Not so fast the bank teller tells you. You still owe us $9383 and some change, not $8800. You have to remember interest and at your monthly compoundings, it adds up! Damn that interest really hits home. Here I thought I had 1200 ...
I am writing this blog entry to talk to all the programmers out there, who post regularly post on the board, who are in the industry, who are new or who are experienced... code organization is key to a great looking program and to help reduce your debugging troubles. Often times I sit on the Dream.In.Code web board helping out when I am suddenly hit with a post that is ...
Damn! A Dream.In.Code quiz can be tough I tell you. So many questions, so many answers, so little time! Like the question here "How many times have you been told you are a liar, you must die, or have been put in context of being some freak of nature by Supersloth?" Uhhh... Maybe there is a choice for how many times I have NOT been called one of those ...
