By Armand Niculescu on August 19, 2009
I was surprised to see that there’s not a great deal of info on the web on how to do a proper daily report – one that doesn’t have any gaps when data is missing. In this post I’ll try to quide you through building such a report using MySQL and PHP for a nice chart.
Posted in PHP/MySQL | Tagged chart, code, mysql, php, tutorial
By Armand Niculescu on April 13, 2009
If you need to make collapsible panels that remember their state, but don’t want to use any javascript framework, this tutorial will help you do this with no headaches – and you’ll learn some neat javascript tricks too!
Posted in CSS/Ajax | Tagged ajax, animation, code, css, download, javascript, tutorial
By Armand Niculescu on March 30, 2009
I find it very annoying when I come across web apps that still can’t handle non-ASCII characters correctly. In this article, I’ll show you how, with just a few lines of code, you can “globalize” your online app.
Posted in PHP/MySQL | Tagged mysql, php, tutorial, utf-8
By Armand Niculescu on November 27, 2008
Working on a CPU-intensive app in flash is a challenging experience. It can be wonderful or frustrating, depending on your mindset. Based on my experience with flashCHESS and other intensive applications, I’ll give some tips and ideas on how to get the most out of your flash project.
Posted in Flash | Tagged actionscript, chess, flash, performance, tutorial
By Armand Niculescu on May 5, 2008
The code is AS3 and the tutorial assumes some general knowledge of flash and actionscript 1 and 2.
Posted in Flash | Tagged actionscript, code, download, flash, free, tutorial
By Armand Niculescu on October 30, 2007
I was forced recently to do some maintenance and bug fixing on an aging .NET-based CMS.
Most of the problems were in the SQL Server database, with lots of corrupted entries. The most frustrating thing however was that at times I didn’t even know where to find the entries. Try finding some specific strings in a [...]
Posted in .NET | Tagged mssql, tutorial
By Armand Niculescu on July 7, 2007
Every now and then I come across some bad practices that needs repairing. This time the “no-no” was in a database tables. I had to change hard-coded links in quite a few tables. Replacing 10,000 absolute URLs spread across the database can be a huge headache, so I decided to work smart, not hard.
So I’ve [...]
Posted in .NET | Tagged code, find&replace, mssql, tsql, tutorial
By Armand Niculescu on October 18, 2006
Here’s a neat thing to remember if you’re using MSSQL:
To change the “sa” password, login to your computer using an administrator account. Open your SQL Server and log in using Windows Authentication. Open a new query window and type in the following command:
Posted in .NET | Tagged mssql, sql, tutorial
By Sanda Borlea on April 3, 2006
I just need to post this as all examples I found were explaining how to use transaction in a <cftry> and <cfcatch> block with only one query.
But if you have a query file to include in your Fusebox application, that does multiple queries and only one needed to be in a transaction block, then the [...]
Posted in ColdFusion | Tagged ColdFusion, sql, tutorial
By Armand Niculescu on December 9, 2005
Fusebox is a web application management framework using xml files to setup rules for loading the application. it allows you to control the loading of different pages or modules in a transparent way for the user of the web application.
Posted in ColdFusion | Tagged ColdFusion, fusebox, tutorial