Enabling SSH Connections to a VirtualBox Guest OS
I felt the need to propagate to the interwebs a good resource I found today for setting up SSH to a guest OS using a host-only network: http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2010/02/08/howto-ssh-into-virtualbox-3-linux-guests/ I am running VirtualBox 4.1.4, but the blog entry is still quite [...]
jQuery Array Functions
I recently wrote some functions in the global jQuery namespace that add array utilities. The list is small right now (only 3) but I hope to grow them as I have time, and can optimize as well. They are inspired [...]
Get HTML5 Data Attributes with jQuery
jQuery 1.4.4+ includes this already, using DOMElement.getAttribute(), but for prior versions you can bind an element to the getData event. This event is fired internally by jQuery.fn.data if you attempt to retrieve data for a key that has no corresponding [...]
Some Interesting PHP Projects in the Works (not mine)…
The PHP world has been somewhat boring for me lately. That’s why I found it necessary to post about two PHP projects that recently caught my attention. I’m hoping to find some excuse to use them. The first is [...]
Testing if Your Site is ‘Down for everyone’
A friend at work introduced me to a site that I found quite handy. It is http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ Down for everyone or just me? tests a URL to see if the corresponding site is available from their server. If the site [...]
Implementing the Observer Pattern with SplObserver and SplSubject
As PHP applications grow into complex object-oriented systems, developers look to create centralized components to execute repetitive tasks. These include logging, emailing, redirects, and more. The Observer pattern is a commonly used design pattern to hook such components into an [...]
A CSS Hack for Internet Explorer 8
Today I found a nifty little hack that appears so far to work for IE8 on STSoftware Support Forum. It apparently has to do with the fact that IE8 ignores multiple id selectors. I decided to test it out on [...]
