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Alternate Even and Odd Table Row Classes using jQuery
August 29th, 2010With the CSS3 pseudo element classes being right around the corner, namely :even and :odd, the ability for us web designers to color even and odd rows will soon be as easy as adding this to our CSS documents: tr:even td { background-color: #ffffff; } tr:odd td { background-color: #fafafa; } But, until browsers support [...]
Where did Renowned Media go?
August 23rd, 2010Why, Ann Arbor of course! Renowned Media will now be based out of Ann Arbor, a city with much more technical businesses and requirements than our old home of Midland. We’ll still do work with our Midland friends of course, but mostly via telecommute.
NeoInvoice Nearing Public Beta
July 22nd, 2010If you haven’t heard by now, we are developing a web application for use by companies in the hourly service industry. This application will be free for small companies and charge a monthly fee for larger companies. This application will be used for invoicing, time tracking, keeping track of employee hours, etc. This application, NeoInvoice, [...]
Time Differences between PHP and MySQL
June 13th, 2010The difference between reported times of MySQL and PHP compared on both a Windows and a Linux server.
Experts Exchange Hide Ads
May 17th, 2010Ever get annoyed with Experts Exchange and that giant block of links before they give you the solution to the problem you’ve Google’d oh so hard for? Here is a GreaseMonkey script I’ve developed to alleviate such a problem.
Introducing SofaDB, a pure PHP CouchDB Alternative
May 1st, 2010An introduction to our SofaDB project, which is a pure PHP alternative to Apache’s CouchDB project. Useful for storing non-relational data. Currently the project is in alpha stages.
Dynamic Form Actions using Different Buttons
April 25th, 2010A method for dynamically changing form action depending on which submit button is clicked using JavaScript. Does not require knowledge of the forms name.
Free Web Utilities
April 18th, 2010This list contains an amazing assortment of tools and utilities useful for web application development. Utilities range from server side software, web software, all the way to downloadable and hosted tools. Even better, every tool listed on this page is free.
Brand New Layout for Renowned Media!
April 6th, 2010We are pleased to announce the new layout for RenownedMedia.com. The previous layout was very grungy and dirty looking, which appealed to our outdoor clients, but lacked the clean and professional look that would be appreciated by most of our clients.
Read GET URL variables using JavaScript
March 4th, 2010Function which will either build an associative array of the GET URL variables on the current page, or return the value of a specified GET variable in JavaScript.
Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) Study Guide Links
March 2nd, 2010The listing of items from ZCE for the exam, with relevant links compiled by Renowned Media.
PHP cURL Replacement
February 26th, 2010If you are a PHP developer who writes a lot of software which needs to be executed in many different shared hosts, it can often be frustrating when certain hosts don’t offer all of the functionality your applications require, specificially the cURL libraries. I’ve seen these missing on several hosts, either for security reasons or [...]
Flash not loading data from external domains
February 25th, 2010Are you having issues loading files from external domains to be used on a separate domain? Adobe changed the way flash works about two versions ago and introduced stricter security settings, specifically the use of crossdomain.xml files. Unlike AJAX XHR requests which allow no cross domain communications, flash allows the use of this security file which blacklists and whitelists external domains.
Chinese Characters not displaying in Internet Explorer 8
February 24th, 2010How to get foreign characters, including Japanese, Chinese, and other high unicode characters, to display properly in Internet Explorer 8.
Accessing CodeIgniter Session Data using External Scripts
February 20th, 2010PHP Sourcecode so that a non CodeIgniter PHP script can access data stored in the users CodeIgniter session.
Firefox Web Developer Toolbar Equivalent for Internet Explorer
February 19th, 2010This tool is for Internet Explorer 7 and behaves like a mashup between the two Firefox tools, Web Developer Toolbar and Firebug.
Random Session Timeouts on MediaTemple
February 16th, 2010
How to change your php.ini settings on your MediaTemple account to prevent your sessions from randomly expiring.
Using TortoiseSVN with MediaTemple Subversion
February 16th, 2010
Article on how to configure your TortoiseSVN client to access MediaTemple’s subversion repositories.
CodeIgniter .htaccess for MediaTemple
February 13th, 2010
A few tweaks need to be made to CodeIgniter to make it compatible with the MediaTemple hosting environment. This article discusses these required changes to get CI running smoothly.
Enabling file_get_contents() and fopen() With Remote URL’s on MediaTemple
February 9th, 2010
How to enable access to remote files on MediaTemple using the functions file_get_contents() and fopen().