Programming By A Tool

Being that I am the man, I thought I would share this little thingy with you because… well I’m the man. So here’s the issue:  You have a date picker, a modal dialog, and you can’t see the calendar when you click on the icon and/or textbox. First thought, ‘WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN TO ME???!?!’ [...]

Sometimes in life you have to ask “should I do this”, this is not one of those times. The idea is simple, click on a link and a div appears over the link with some kind of message in it. Kind of like being able to add a pop up note to a word. If [...]

Now honestly, I think the all famous Prototype has something for this, but if you aren’t using the all famous Prototype… well you’re screwed. Until now. This is the idea, you want show or hide something on a click of it. <div onclick=”HideOrShowMe();”> YAYAAYAYAY! </div> Annoying thing is trying to keep up with whether it’s [...]

If nothing else the motto for this site is, “Why was this written?” but sometimes it can also be, “I bypass the middle man and pass the savings on to you.” In this case, it has to do with a really simple way to show only on scroll bar on a section be it a [...]

So something that has been around for while that I just stumbled upon is Skinning. Basically, this allows you to sent a certain look (using style sheets) for every control in the site. This even includes the built in controls like Tables and Textboxes. How is this done? Well maybe I can tell you. First [...]