05Jul2011
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CMS Private Beta!

BlaineSch CMS Beta 0.1 will be privately released on the 29th of July. If you would like to receive a download link on that day feel free to leave a comment and I'll send a link to the email you entered in. I only request that you are a developer, or have previously used a different CMS, and that you can send feedback before the official undecided launch date. There are three main features that

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04May2011
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CSS, JavaScript
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Request: “Divi-height” in CSS3

Any person who has played with HTML has used "repeating backgrounds", and if you have ever used these you are probably aware of a major issue. If it needs to connect at the bottom, with a footer, and the content isn't exactly the right height it'll look messed up. For example, if your background is 41px in height, and your container is exactly 80px high, it will not connect correctly. This is w

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10Apr2011
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Plugin Updates

So after some much needed love, I decided instead of writing a new post, to update the software a bit. My contact plugin broke so I installed one I had used recently with a new client called Contact form 7. This one is rather nice, letting me add/edit custom fields. I tried like 10 syntax highlighters, none of them let me edit it the colors, and they all looked bad on a black background so I fi

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29Mar2011
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JavaScript, PHP
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Number to Word Converter

So I recently found a function that has one parameter, which then goes into a switch/case statement for each individual number up till 31 giving the real word for the day. For example the input "31" would return "thirty one". I figured there was a much easier way to make this function. I ended up making two functions. I converted this to JavaScript from PHP so I can use it in a few different place

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14Mar2011
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JavaScript
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JavaScript Submit();

As some of you know, submitting a form via JavaScript is often essential. Especially for JavaScript rich applications. I was currently debugging some code at work and ran into a bug I just could not wrap my head around. It was currently getting all POST data, and resetting it in hidden input fields so the user can fill out more parts of a larger form. Anyways, one of the submit buttons were act

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05Mar2011
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Databases
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MySQL and MSSQL

For most of my programming life I've used MySQL for no real reason. I had nothing to complain about, so why switch? That's really the wrong perspective as I can see now. User Defined Variables Both have their advantages and disadvantages. For instance in MySQL you don't have to declare variable types. For example in MySQL you can simply do this: But in MSSQL you must set the data type

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02Mar2011
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Grand ReOpening!

This site has gone through a bit of a make over. I am still gathering content together, so have a look around, and be sure to come back to see what else will be new!

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