Archive for the 'HOWTO' Category

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Let’s not pretend I have some remarkably written tutorial here. I just smile and point…
In order to get VMWare Server set up on Ubuntu 8.04, do this and then do this. Simplify.
UPDATE: On a completely different, newly updated machine that had had a preexisting version of VMWare installed, applying the vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz patch worked, while the […]

Monday, October 15th, 2007

In PHP, to successively filter data in one array based on some data in each row of another, array_filter() can be combined with create_function().
The function array_filter() takes the array to be filtered as its first argument, and a callback function as its second. The callback function is a function with one parameter, which is also […]

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

In order to create javascript objects which encapsulate all of their logic and create a direct bridge to the HTML DOM event model without helper functions, you can attach events using function closures which, when executed, are executed on a specific instance of an instantiated object. I touched on this same approach when discussing how […]