The Hind Leg

Handling errors appropriately with Dojo Grids and Dojo Data Stores.

Cameron — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:49:53 +0800

This is a pretty technical blog entry today, but I thought I'd post it seeing as how difficult it has been for me to find any reliable information on how all this works.

Dojo is an awesome Javascript framework, and their Grids are world-class examples of how to manage large volumes of data through a consistent, reliable and familiar interface. It supports all sorts of features from row sorting, paging and in-line editing through to custom formatters. Today's blog is about in-line editing, and how to handle errors.

In 10 years time, Flash will be a forgotten technology

Cameron — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:28:20 +0800

Well, with any sort of luck at least. The reason for Flash's timely demise is this: http://processingjs.org/

Processing, and the Javascript implementation of it above, is an open source programming language that allows developers to programmatically build animations, images and interactive elements. The Javascript implementation uses the new HTML5 canvas element to allow users to build virtually whatever graphical interface they can imagine.

Google says update your browser... so do we.

jeremy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:51:02 +0800

Google has said that it will cease support for old browsers such as Internet Explorer 6 this month. This is a great move on their behalf and they boys at DogHouse central are over the moon with this news.

And if that isn't enough then here are a few more reasons to upgrade your browser

Image thumbnail view helper for Zend Framework

Cameron — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:24:56 +0800

I've just released a generic view helper for Zend Framework that generates thumbnails using PHP's internal image resizing functionality. It is based upon the code developed by S. Mohammed Alsharaf at http://www.zfsnippets.com/snippets/view/id/44. It's basically zero config, I've made it smart enough to be able to automatically thumbnail basically any image passed to it without worrying too much about paths and the like, and it should be straightforward to work in a lightbox as well.

How to geocode an address using Google and php

jeremy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:52:03 +0800

Google has some amazing services, one of my favourites would have to be the ability to geocode an address and get not only the lat/long but a clean, well formatted address back.

How you say... Easy!

Get yourself an api key from here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html

use the following php code: