Tim Hoolihan

Category: Javascript

  • Working With Social Network APIs

    Creating Vicinity Buzz naturally involved working with a the APIs of social networks. That information seemed worth sharing for those of you interested in writing any type of application that would integrate with a social network. Developer Documentation Any of the social networking sites you probably want to integrate with have developer api’s that are […]

  • Simple URI Tip for HTML

    You may already know this, in which case you ran across it randomly, or are the kind of developer that reads specs. But if you haven’t run across this, prepare for a face-palm moment wondering why you didn’t know this years ago. Using a uri like the following tells the browser to get the content […]

  • Dealing With An ORA-01440 When Altering a Table in Oracle

    When altering a table to an Oracle reduce a columns size, you’ll get a ORA-01440 error, indicating that you can’t make the adjustment because of the potential data loss. I had to do this to recently to a bunch of columns, as I had incorrectly specified the size of numbers that would end up as […]

  • Flex is a Relic and Silverlight is a Zombie

    …or some other catchy metaphor that will grab your attention. These technologies were hot over the last 5 years. Flex gained a particular amount of popularity in the Java community where UI technologies have a bit of a spotty record (that’s like saying my Bengals have a bit of a spotty record over a lifetime). […]

  • Popup Overlay Auto-Applied to an Anchor with jqModal

    Working on a relatively straightforward page, I want to have some of the simpler static contact come up as an overlay style of popup. Following web standards, it would be nice to have this code automatically work based on a CSS class. This would provide two benefits: easy to add more such links without writing […]