FarmSoft Studios Scratchpad » Web Design

Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash

FarmSoft Studios — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:08:41 +0000

In an excellently written article, Steve states clearly why Apple is embracing the future, and not relying on flash.

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

Safari Web Inspector Scrolling Bugs

FarmSoft Studios — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:11:39 +0000

If the inspector is open in docked mode, interaction within the webkit content window – typing text into an input, using a menu, selecting text – causes it to frantically scroll downwards.

via BogoJoker » Improving the Web Inspector.

…Glad I’m not the only one that noticed that behavior!

Sorting Multiple Columns With MySQL

FarmSoft Studios — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:57:13 +0000

Ever wanted to sort your MySQL results by several columns?

SELECT * FROM orderspecs ORDER BY height, depth, width;

Now what if you want the columns to have different sort orders in the sub-sorted columns? No problem. Just specify the order for each column.

SELECT * FROM orderspecs ORDER BY height DESC, depth ASC, width DESC;

Google Gravity

FarmSoft Studios — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:10:32 +0000

Gotta love it… A Chrome experiment called “Google Gravity” I totally love it. Works in Safari 4 and somewhat in FireFox as well.

Setting an HTML element’s class with Javascript

FarmSoft Studios — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:32:07 +0000

I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why I was getting a parse-error with this code… DUH!

document.getElementById('test').class = "test"

“class” is a reserved name, of course… So you access it with:

document.getElementById('test').className = "test"

Plesk Backup Error: ‘ERROR Unable to open /opt/psa/var/apspkgarc/archive-index.xml’

FarmSoft Studios — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:03:31 +0000

I was getting the following error when trying to use Plesk’s backup function:

ERROR Unable to open /opt/psa/var/apspkgarc/archive-index.xml

The solution is to visit the “Application Vault” under the “Server” tab of your Plesk interface. The file gets auto-generated at that point.

For more information on how to use Plesk’s backup feature, read this post

A List Apart: In Defense of Eye Candy

FarmSoft Studios — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:12:35 +0000

A List Apart: Articles: In Defense of Eye Candy.

Wonderful article on design…

Web 3.0

FarmSoft Studios — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:34:04 +0000

Wow. That is all I can say. This is the most impressive web application that I have ever laid eyes on.

Check it out here: http://280slides.com

The All-New WebKit Inspector

FarmSoft Studios — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:22:29 +0000

http://webkit.org/blog/197/web-inspector-redesign/

Check out the latest builds of the WebKit project for a cool new way of debugging your HTML/CSS/JavaScript woes.

Adding A User In MySQL

FarmSoft Studios — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:01:36 +0000

Do you need to quickly add a specific user with access to only a certain table? Issue this command as a root or admin user:

GRANT ALL ON testdb.* TO 'testuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pass1';

You can also limit user’s privileges to specific ip addresses or domains in case you need to access your databases from a different host.

GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'testuser'@'remote.farmsoftstudios.com' IDENTIFIED BY 'pass1';