Well, I gave DreamHost PS a try. And let me tell you, it works great. So why is this blog back on my DreamHost shared account? A few reasons; mostly, there’s no payoff between the cost and the performance difference, at least for this blog. I got in on DreamHost PS as part of a [...]
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Parent – Child Select Lists Revisited: Validating Selected Options Via jQuery And PHP
Recently received via e-mail, in response to my previous blog entry, “Using AJAX To Data Bind A Child Drop Down List Based On The Selected Option Of A Parent Select Control“: Would you be interested in modifying your solution in 2 ways. One would be to have it contain a country downdown as well. So [...]
A MySQL Stored Procedure To Return The Total Years, Months And Days Of All Person Records
Asked recently on Yahoo! Answers: 10 Points…Help MYSQL? i have a table named ‘Students’ and it has the coulumns ‘Name’,’DateBirth’,’Age’ how do i do to know how many years, months, and days do all the students united have, THANKS What the questioner wants to do is fairly complicated in MySQL. If we were working with [...]
Getting All ZIP Codes In A Given Radius From A Known Point / ZIP Code Via PHP And MySQL
Recently asked on Yahoo! Answers: Does anyone know a good source for programing language for zip codes/distances/database? Language can be in Java or PHP. Need to find how to write the programing for doing a simple search (5 miles, 10 miles, etc.) from my registered location, when performing a search for the specific distances identified, [...]
Moving ListItems From A ComboBox / DropDownList To A ListBox In .NET
Recently asked on Yahoo! Answers: ComboBox Question in Visual Basic? I am trying to create a combobox dropdown list of countries. When user click on a country, it should add to the listbox. I manage to do it. But I want to enhance some form of checking. If the country is already added in the [...]
An Open Reply To Questions About My Background And Experience
I recently received an e-mail from a fellow named Edward T. Boot, asking about my experience and credentials. As the sorts of questions asked there aren’t new — people occasionally ask for my CV / justification of my credentials — and since posting such questions on Yahoo! Answers would probably qualify as chatting (in violation [...]
