Archive for May, 2008

well, sometimes I think just writing down the problem helps. Here’s what i have, it’s a little ugly in one place but otherwise not too shabby.
This is the finished mark up from my form (I’m asking a user to select the bitrate of an mp3.) I’m trying to recreate this with php and retain [...]


hmmm. I’m having trouble writing something elegant to set the value of a select box using php. The situation i want to use this in is right after the user has submitted a form and it has failed to validate (for example because the user missed a field, failed to enter numeric data where they [...]


bool?

11May08

Something that was causing me grief today was the boolean data type in phpmyadmin. I was trying to create a table field using the BOOL  and every time I thought I succeeded in doing so phpmyadmin would change it to TINYINT. bah.
Well, it seems using a true or false is fine when constructing a query [...]


system plan

10May08

first, heres a link to my system plan from last week. The weak part of it is the lack of any meaningful personas… <whinge> as far as the ‘real world’ goes my project is vaguely plausible but I haven’t really put a lot of effort into justifying it (aiming it at real users, finding a [...]