http://blog.michaelfasani.com Blog, What? Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:22:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This site is very helpful as a cross refrence from ASP to PHP and vice versa. This is by no means a complete list but it should help you convert ASP to PHP or the ... http://blog.michaelfasani.com/2008/10/asp-to-php-cross-refrence/ jQuery is a JavaScript library. JavaScript Libraries simplify how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. They deliver your code so that it works across all common browsers. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript and allow ... http://blog.michaelfasani.com/2008/08/learning-jquery/ Its not possible to put a character limit on multi line text box areas in HTML/XHTML so you have to use some form of JavaScript snippet, here is a snippet I use, because its quick and very simple to customize. <script type="text/javascript"> //Max length multiline textbox checker function checkMaxLen(txt,maxLen) { try{ if(txt.value.length > (maxLen-1)) { var ... http://blog.michaelfasani.com/2008/08/limiting-a-textbox-with-javascript/ This article explains how you can install and run Firefox 3 at the same time and on the same machine as Firefox 2. Both programs can run simultaneously, this makes developing for both browsers a lot easier. How to install both FireFox 2 and FireFox 3 on the same machine ... http://blog.michaelfasani.com/2008/07/running-firefox-2-and-firefox-3-at-the-same-time/ This chunk of XHTML code is used on all my pages so that IE6 displays inline PNG's correctly. This code stops the blue flash PNG fix problem. The JS code snippet was originally taken from http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola. You will need a different JS file if you wish you use a PNG ... http://blog.michaelfasani.com/2008/07/the-ultimate-png-fix-for-inline-images-in-ie6/ Smashing Magazine recently did a survey of current web form design patterns. They researched the top 100 popular web-sites and how they build web forms. Basically the conclusion from both articles outlines the following: the registration link is titled "sign up" (40%) and placed in the right upper corner sign-up forms have a ... http://blog.michaelfasani.com/2008/07/smashing-magazine-research-sign-up-forms/ WhatTheFont is a free font recognition system. Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest match. Ever wanted to find a font just like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ad campaigns? Well now you can, using the WhatTheFont? search engine. http://blog.michaelfasani.com/2008/07/what-the-font/ One of the tasks I work on daily for people is email builds. Building robust emails for a matrix of browsers, web-based mail clients and standalone clients can be a very tricky task because email clients sometimes strip out certain tags and render different elements in slightly different ways. After ... http://blog.michaelfasani.com/2008/07/12-tips-to-help-you-build-robust-emails/ VisualSVN Server is a package that contains everything you need to install, configure and manage Subversion server for your team on Windows platform. It includes Subversion, Apache and a management console. Visit the website for VisualSVN Server http://blog.michaelfasani.com/2008/07/16download-visualsvn-server/ Found this pretty cool search engine yesterday it searches a large number of the social bookmark sites and returns the results to a single page. Its a free service and is called socialscan. The socialscan search engine checks your content against Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Myweb, ... http://blog.michaelfasani.com/2008/07/social-bookmarking-search-engine-socialscancom/