http://bradym.net Random thoughts of a Code Monkey Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:53:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you've used an interactive shell on Linux or OS X you know what a good command prompt is like. To go from that to the command prompt in Windows XP is painful, since I'm stuck on Windows at work, I had to do something about the command prompt to ... http://bradym.net/windows/making-the-windows-command-prompt-usable Opera can't handle a redirect to a URL that ends in an anchor. I found this out trying to use the PHP header() function. From what little I was able to find using Google on the topic, it appears that Opera won't redirect a user to the page they just came ... http://bradym.net/php/opera-friendly-php-redirect There is an error in calendar-setup.js that prevents the setting of an initial date for the calendar. Go to line 159 and replace the code: if (dateEl) params.date = Date.parseDate(dateEl.value || dateEl.innerHTML, dateFmt); with: if (dateEl && (dateEl.value || dateEl.innerHTML)) params.date = Date.parseDate(dateEl.value || dateEl.innerHTML, dateFmt);ShareThis http://bradym.net/javascript/cant-get-jcalendar-to-select-a-specific-date-when-opening Sometimes it is nice to display html code with out it being parsed as html, for example if you are writing a tutorial and want to show how to do something. To display code, you will need to use a code to display a < or > to prevent the browser ... http://bradym.net/html/display-html-code-without-having-it-parsed It turns out that setting up wireless with DSL is a bit different than with cable modem, here's how I got it to work. In order to get it working I used a Cisco 678 DSL Modem, Linksys WRT54G Wireless Router and a Basic 5 port hub. Here's the process that I ... http://bradym.net/misc/setting-up-wireless-with-dsl At one point between work and personal sites, I managed close to 10 different domain names. A couple years ago I decided it was time move all of the domain names I manage to one account to make my life easier. Two of the domains I had registered before this time ... http://bradym.net/misc/choosing-a-domain-registrar For a past project, I needed to create iCalendar files from event data stored in a database. There is an iCalendar class on phpclasses.org, but there is very little documentation and you need to understand some of the quirks of the iCalendar specification for it to be useful. Since I got ... http://bradym.net/php/creating-icalendar-ics-files-with-php As you can see I've just setup WordPress to run my new blog. I'll post more soon.ShareThis http://bradym.net/news/hello-world