Populate Form Fields Bookmarklet

<!--tags javascript forms-->Sometimes you need to fill in lots of form fields, but you aren't using Firefox with the Web Developer Toolbar and it's "Populate Form Fields" tool. So I wrote a javascript bookmarklet that does basically the same thing.

Drag this to your bookmarks toolbar: Populate Fields

Syndicated 2008-08-15 15:03:46 (Updated 2008-08-15 15:04:15) from Dave Brondsema's Blog - Programming

Drop-down menu without javascript

<!--tags javascript css menu -->Some time ago I was looking for a CSS-only (no javascript) cross-browser technique to make a drop-down expanding navigation menu. I found the GRC Menu that did this, but it had a lot of site-specific stuff in there. It was not something I could easily use as a starting point for my own sites.

So I hacked around with Steve's CSS and HTML and developed a minimal version. Here's the minimal version of GRC's script-free pure-css menu.

Syndicated 2008-05-19 19:17:57 from Dave Brondsema's Blog - Programming

That doesn't happen very often

On Saturday morning I woke up to people talking about string concatenation, and how many parameters some function needed.

Syndicated 2008-05-14 01:57:52 from Dave Brondsema's Blog - Programming

MS SQL matrix query

<!--tags sql microsoft mssql -->If you use Microsoft SQL and you want to do a query to turn some rows into columns, it can be tricky. I don't know what that type of query is called, I think some call it a matrix query or a cross-tab query or a pivot query. Here's how I've been able to write a pivot cross-tab matrix queries for Microsoft SQL Server including an extra variation for SQL Server 2005.

Syndicated 2008-02-07 04:09:24 from Dave Brondsema's Blog - Programming

MediaWiki software and rel=nofollow

In case any of my readers run a MediaWiki site, you should know: By default, MediaWiki is configured to use rel=nofollow on links. This means anyone who sets up a MediaWiki site, not just wikipedia and its siblings. Here's more info and how to reconfigure it. That makes me mad. They should have better defaults.

Syndicated 2008-01-09 04:10:16 from Dave Brondsema's Blog - Programming