Assigning static IP addresses in Windows 7
I am currently working on multiple projects which require me to connect my Windows 7 laptop to different networks in a day. A couple of these networks assign a dynamic IP to the system, when I connect to them, but one of them (Windows 2003 IPv4 Active Directory based)...
Javascript variable scoping
While working on a Web application recently, I came across a Javascript gotcha that I shouldn't have faced in the first place.As a matter of habit, I have made it a point to always declare variables inside a js function with the var keyword. I know many of us consider...
ASP.NET sets the transfer encoding as chunked on premature flushing the Response
Well, I discovered this problem and its solution sometime earlier. However lately, a couple of my colleagues approached me for advice with the same issue, and I thought of writing a blog post for the same.In a nut-shell, the problem is that ASP.NET transfers the data...
VB.NET equivalent to PHP functions
I am currently working on an assignment to convert a Perl/PHP based intra-net project to an ASP.NET web application.The complexity of the project has been significant as it involves the management of an internal Windows 2003 Active Directory setup for a large...
Enhanced Drupal contributed themes
Well, it feels good to be blogging after a while. The past few weeks have been really hectic. Did you notice I do not have a single blog post for this month before this post? Well, I intend to compensate the void now, and what better way to begin than to offer some...
Creating Drupal style tables
UPDATE: Drupal 7 version of this blog post is available here.I recently needed to create a table in Drupal (while working on my next Drupal open source module, Document). It's just too easy outputting a table in PHP using a simple for loop over data fetched from the...
Comprehensive Javascript/Ajax Frameworks
If you have been a regular reader of my blog entries, you would be knowing that I have been using ExtJs/Ext.net for a considerable time now. When I first encountered Coolite (through a Newsletter from Red-gate Software), I was pretty impressed, and it took me a while...
ExtJs – Date-Time field plugins for efficient data entry
DateField & TimeField from ExtJs/Ext.net arsenal are two really useful controls for entering date/time into forms. However, one of my clients complained that these fields can sometime take too much time in filling out, e.g. when the Date to be entered was...
Dynamic Helper Controls for ExtJs/Ext.net elements/components
Layer (Ext.Layer) is probably one of the lesser used element of the ExtJs framework. However, I recently discovered one great use of Layer, for showing dynamic helper controls for any element on the page.See the adjoining screenshots for an example. In my case, I...
jQuery – Encode & Decode arbitrary objects to and from JSON
Working with ExtJs for a long time now (and deliberately avoiding jQuery whenever I could), I finally dumped ExtJs in favor of jQuery with my upcoming Document module for Drupal (mainly for avoiding users from having to download ExtJs separately when Drupal comes...
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