I am currently working on developing an iPhone app for Northwest Nazarene University. Part of this app will need to connect to the school’s webserver to retreive items such as news feeds and shared photo galleries. Being primarily a web developer I have turned to two projects created by Nitobi persons, PhoneGap and jQTouch. PhoneGap

Using the .not() operator with jQuery it is possible to select only the first level of children of an element. This could come in handy on a menu for instance. Let’s see what the menu code looks like. Item Sub Sub2 Sub3 Item2 Item3 We are trying to get ul li, but not ul li

When pulling in array from outside data sources you often receive an array back. The problem is that sometimes even though you know you should have an array your application does not and therefore assigns it to the stdObject object, which of course is nothing. To make it usable you must convert it back into

It is quite common to run into situations where PHP errors are suppressed or written to a log file somewhere on a live, non-development server. If you are troubleshooting and need to see the error that can be a pain. Luckily PHP and Apache have provided us with two great workarounds. The first happens through

I am in a situation where I need analytics data and none is provided. The entire 35k+ file website is all static HTML running on a Windows IIS server. I am not familiar enough with Windows Server to know what sort of scripting capabilities there are, but I do have PHP available. I wrote a