I was playing around with Wink Toolkit’s Tag Cloud control and came across an interesting issue with Chrome and the CSS3 matrix3d transform function. In order for the z coordinate to work properly in the matrix3d parameters, you’ll need to set the parent element’s -webkit-transform-style property to preserve-3d. The following example …
Working with the UIPickerView isn’t too bad, but if you’d rather work with cool web technology like CSS3, then this control’s for you. Plus it gives you a nice basis for a very customizable picker control. UPDATE 09-21-2012: The demo stopped working and I suspect it has something to do …
I went through quite a few Google searches trying to figure this out. My problem was that I needed to get the coordinate of a touch event relative to the top left corner of an element. However, the TouchEvent object doesn’t have the offsetX or offsetY, which, in contrast, the MouseEvent …
Sure you can do this via CSS. However, doing so will result in a pixelated image. If you’re anal like me, change the comments.php file (using your child theme, of course) and look for (i.e. do a search for any instance of wp_list_comments :D) a line similar to: wp_list_comments(‘avatar_size=48&type=comment’); The …
Here’s a reference that could help when trying to troubleshoot IE’s various browser modes and doctypes. See Browser Modes and Doctypes
If you’re having issues with locks in Oracle, here’s a way to show what sessions have locks on which objects. select s.osuser “O/S-User”, s.username “Ora-User”, s.sid “Session-ID”, s.serial# “Serial”, s.process “Process-ID”, s.status “Status”, l.name “Obj Locked”, l.mode_held “Lock Mode”, count(*) from v$session s, dba_dml_locks l, v$process p where l.session_id = …
When connecting to a VPN, you may want to route some of your traffic to a specific gateway (and thus network). This is more than likely true if you have the option in your VPN connection to route all traffic through the VPN. OSX has two scripts that run when …
Creating an permanent SMB mount in OSX is not so easy. Maybe some day Apple will make it a little bit easier, but if this is something you’re looking to do, check out the solutions below. If you have any tips, make sure to share it in the comments! There’s …
This should be an option that’s available through the Finder preferences, but it’s not. Odd. Anyway, here’s how to do it. Open up a shell and run the following command: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES To undo: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO To check to see if the option is …
If you need to access HTML elements or Javascript code within an iFrame, here’s how to do it: var cw = document.getElementById(‘theIFrameID’).contentWindow; cw.document.body.style.backgroundColor = ‘#f00’ Have jQuery in the iFrame? You can access it this way: alert(cw.$(‘body’).html());