Archive for August, 2006

A New Use of Sleep() in PHP

Monday, August 28th, 2006

I have been working on a website that allows photo uploading and manipulation via a web interface. The webpage uses a hidden iframe so that uploading can take place without refreshing the page and AJAX that allows users to rotate and delete photos, again without refreshing the page. I am developing the application on my […]

Google Maps and CSS/Javascript Drop Down Menus

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Twice in one week I ran into the same problem. I put Google Maps on a webpage, only to find that the drop down navigation menu went behind the map. One navigation was nested “ul”s with CSS for formatting and a small piece of unobtrusive JavaScript to deal with IE’s problem on not recognizing […]

The PHP Job Market

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

For the past couple of years, I have actively looked at seattle.craigslist.org’s internet engineers and web /info design job postings. I have noticed a slow but steady increase in the number of postings for PHP jobs. I must mention that I think there are more job postings in general, but the ratio of job postings […]