Technopragmatics

The title might be misleading, but the kind of validation I was after is checking whether or not at least one option in a group of elements (check boxes or radio buttons) is checked. This is useful in cases where you want the user to make a choice on their own instead of accepting a default value, or in cases where you can’t supply a default one.

Eclipse is an open source IDE — or as they put it themselves: “universal toolset for development”. It is probably the most flexible development environment out there right now, with plug-in support for all major languages. I have used it for Java coding for about half a year now, and just started converting my PHP [...]

I dug through my archives the other day, and stumbled upon a bunch of XBMC scripts which I haven’t used in a while. For those of you that aren’t “in the know”, XBMC (XBox Media Center) is a fully-fledged replacement dashboard for Xbox which basically lets you use your box as a HTPC. There are [...]

I just stumbled over a great solution to a problem I had; getting own content to float above a Google Maps IFRAME. I thought I had tried every possible way, using a variety of tricks. However, the solution would reveal itself to be much easier than I would have thought!
Ben Simon writes on his blog [...]