Author Archives: brad

Oracle suing Google for the use of Java in Android

By brad | Published: August 13, 2010

I think a counter-suit for anti-trust infringement for acquiring MySQL is in order! For a background on Google’s history with Android from 3 years ago, read here.

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“YUI 2.8: Learning the Library” Free Chapter

By brad | Published: August 13, 2010

Grab a free chapter of the latest YUI book from Packt Publishing, “YUI 2.8: Learning the Library.” The free chapter covers something we all use a lot, menus. I’m checking it out now, and suggest if you use, or are thinking about using YUI, you do the same since it’s free. I’ve been using YUI [...]

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First iPhone App – LDS Gems

By brad | Published: May 8, 2010

After a bit of work, I finally got my first iPhone app on the App store. It’s nothing extraordinary, but was a learning experience for the most part. It’s called LDS Gems, and is an easier way to manage, read, and share the quotes and stories provided by the LDS church at http://gems.lds.org. I used [...]

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Doctrine Model Hydration

By brad | Published: March 30, 2010

I was just deep into figuring out what was causing a certain bug and wanted to take the time to share my findings. When working with Doctrine we were having some scattered issues of models that we had loaded from the database, modified, and then they were getting stomped on by the database again before [...]

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Getting keycode values in Javascript

By brad | Published: September 16, 2009

I’ve had to work with getting user input values based off of the keycode from the event a few times, and figured I’d throw together some of that functionality in case anyone else is wrestling with this functionality. Below is a simple “keycode” object that has a few utility functions, and maps of values to [...]

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