I’m testing with MongoDB today and during my search to find out more about how to use MongoDB I found a neat little tool on the mongo website. It acts like a virtual environment to use mongodb, or you can type in “tutorial” and it gives you a tour of using mongo. Check it out.

This site belongs to a great designer I know so I decided to highlight his site in this section. Take a look at the Fable Engine and awe at the inspiration that comes from looking at his work.

I decided that Saturday was a good day to move my site from drupal.jacksonkr.com to jacksonkr.com. I figured that I would just copy the files and viola, right? Wrong. I had a disastrous DB incident where what could go wrong, did go wrong. Essentially, I lost my website. I quickly inquired of my host if by chance they had nightly backups. It turns out they had several. Approximately six a day.

Some developers know how to use grep well, other’s don’t. I’m one of the developers that only knows the basics of grep. For example: if I want to search a folder of 20+ files for a specific string it can be very tedious. However, grep makes this part of life simpler by allowing you search for a string in all files in a folder. eg. grep -lir “search string” /home/myfolder/

I found an old AS2 file laying around so I decided to try it out with swiffy. It only kind of works. It would play out correct for about the first 5 seconds and then it broke (sad).

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I was putting together an upload form today that uploads to a file to PHP. On submit, the $_FILES var was empty and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out what was going on.

Attempts:

1. I tried a print_r on both $_POST and $FILES. Both showed up empty.
2. Added info to the $_GET to make sure the POST was even going to the action page.
3. Made sure I had enctype=”multipart/form-data” in the form.

Solution:

Recently, I’ve started looking for different tech news sources (in companionship to slashdot). Mainly because I wanted to be more thorough about what I find for tech news. I want to be ahead of the curve. I realize that takes a lot of work and a lot of intel because there’s other devs doing the same thing. Not only that, but now that I’m a “small fish” — No one comes to me with new products they are developing. Rather, I have to scour the web myself (pros and cons).

If you are into CSS check out this link on Ten CSS Tricks you may not know.

I’ve found out some cool things about firebug this last week that involved JS and the DOM. If you don’t know the extent of what firebug can do, you’ll be better off finding out..