Html – Using Buttons for selecting files to be uploaded
Well, you know the good old <input type="file" /> widget in html, the one used for selecting files to be uploaded on a web page, right.The problem with this widget is its limited support for styling and scripting compared to other html tags (probably due to...
ExtJs – Adding tools dynamically to ExtJs Panels
Second consecutive blog post relating to adding something dynamically to an already rendered Html component, while the previous one was for adding buttons dynamically to jQuery UI dialogs here, this one is for adding tools dynamically to ExtJs Panels.As you might be...
jQueryUI – Adding-removing buttons dynamically from a jQueryUI dialog
It was a rather interesting situation. I needed to add/remove buttons dynamically from a jQueryUI dialog that had already been rendered. Based on user interaction, I either needed to add new buttons or remove existing ones.I checked the jQueryUI docs and there was...
ExtJs – Upgrading from 3.2.1 to 3.3.0
This is more of a personal blog post I am creating for my own referecne. We have migrated one of our apps from July/August version of Ext.Net (based on ExtJs 3.2.1) to Feb 19, 2011 (Revision 3469) version of Ext.Net (based on ExtJs 3.3.0).There have been some breaking...
Internet Explorer’s Developer Tools mysteriously refuse to show up
Internet Explorer (IE) 8's Developer Tools seem to have a strange issue. Every once in a while, it simply refuses to show up on my screen. No matter how many times I click the Developer Tools button in IE's menu, or press F12, the tools simply wont show up on the...
ASP.NET – Converting a Physical Path to a app relative Virtual Path
I had earlier written a quick and dirty method to convert a Physical path to a virtual path (aka a url) that can be used on the client after passing through ASP.NET's ResolveUrl method. Without much talking, here's the method: {syntaxhighlighter brush:...
Generating signed urls for Amazon’s Product Advertising API in PHP
I recently provided Amazon's Product Advertising API integration for one of the sites I did for a client in Drupal (along with iTunes search integration etc). I have to say providing Amazon's Product Advertising API integration was more cumbersome than integration...
Symbolic links in Windows aka Junctions
Symbolic Links in Unix, Linux and derivatives are a very common and useful feature. Symbolic links in these Operating systems allow you to place links to folders or files (which can be called shortcuts also in Windows terminology) in another folder but they appear...
Drupal – Removing the default “-Select-” option from select form elements
I needed to remove the default "-None-"/"-Select-" option that Drupal's Form API adds to "select" form elements. Let's take an example. Consider the following "select" element definition for a form: $element = array ( '#type' => 'select', '#options' =>...
ASP.NET – Using Powershell and Google Translate to provide automatic localization
UPDATE (June 11, 2011): A complete sample ASP.NET application demonstrating features in this blog post is available here: ASP.NET - A complete translation framework through Powershell and Google Translate This was a rather interesting thing I did in the last...
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