Michael is an experienced software architect/engineer from Arbroath, Scotland,
specialising in C#, PHP, AJAX, Web Services, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server.
He also loves an ice-cold Jack and Coke and a good tikka masala.
December 14th, 2007
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For the last 30 years, Lucasfilm has created special holiday greeting cards for its employees and business partners. For the first time ever, we have compiled most of the Star Wars-themed Holiday Cards on one page.
[Via: Slashfilm]
December 12th, 2007
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As part of my Christmas from Laura’s mum, and my dad’s Christmas from us, me, Laura, mum and dad went to see Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown last night at the Caird Hall in Dundee.
After the show, which was excellent BTW; up to the standard of his heyday, we went to the stage door, and I got [...]
December 5th, 2007
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Further to the previous post, I am using javascript to parse times in the form “09:00″ selected from a drop down list.
To get the hours and minutes, I was using the following code:
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var theHours = parseInt(theTimeDDL.options[theTimeDDL.selectedIndex].value.substring(0,2));
var theMinutes = parseInt(theTimeDDL.options[theTimeDDL.selectedIndex].value.substring(3,5));
…
Unfortunately, the above will return 0 for the values of 08 and 09.
This is due [...]
December 5th, 2007
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I had to find an AJAX library that could handle multiple concurrent calls for a project that we are currently updating.
I came across this one that does the job superbly.