Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

I just made my new site dev|sushi live today. There is not much there yet, just an introductory post explaining what that site is going to be all about. The short story is that all technical content will be written to that blog while this one will be only about me and personal stuff going [...]

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

I am going to be re-doing this site along side a new site launch. Currently it is a mixture of static pages (the non-blog) stuff and the blog itself. Firstly, I am going to break the blog in half stripping out the tech stuff from the personal stuff. The tech stuff will reside on the [...]

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Most of you know that I work for the University of Waterloo in IT. Specifically, I work in the Housing and Residences department and am a member of the Housing Technology (ResNet) team. When I started here I did tech support type work and occasionally did some projects to fill certain needs in Visual Basic. [...]

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Recently I have been learning the basics of PHP with regards to web applications. So far I have touched on MySQL queries, login/password storage and forms authentication, sessions and authenticated user session security.
I am working on a personal project called bookkeeper which is a database for the books that I have read and what I [...]

Monday, February 20th, 2006

I have finished the initial version of the date control. I think it improves on some of the designs I have seen around this last week.
Here are the finer points:

Completely JavaScript/CSS/XHTML built so no server side stuff is required.
No tables at all in the calendar control so the design is more flexible and easier to [...]

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

I am working on a very simple JavaScript popup calendar control for people to use in their web forms. I tried using the ASP.Net one but it has several problems.
ASP.Net Calendar Issues:

Clicking on the calendar for changing months or selecting days requires a post back and requires extra Page_Load code to pass by any processing [...]

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

I have now spent a bit of time playing around with AJAX using it in a few of my web applications. Essentially AJAX boils down to one thing: The XMLHTTPRequest Object. Some people will probably disagree with me on that point but all the fancy JavaScript is just that, it is not very novel by [...]