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I’ve had a problem with Adobe Fireworks CS5 ever since upgrading to a Retina Display MacBook. The problem is that the eye-dropper colour picker tool just doesn’t work any more. At all. Very frustrating.
I came across a very simple workaround today which can be found here:
http://simianstudios.com/blog/post/colour-picker-bug-workaround-for-adobe-fireworks-cs4-in-os-x-lion
Hide/Show regions are very useful in that they allow users to hide certain on-screen content when it’s not relevant for them (and show it again just as easily) simply by clicking the small arrow icon in the top left of the region.
But how can you programmatically do the (more...)
Today I came across a great interactive tutorial which covers a series of advanced Javascript topics. It’s very well put together and lets you try out your own variations of the code being shown which can be very handy in making sure your understanding is correct.
It’s from John Resig, (more...)
Catastrophe! You’ve just accidentally dropped a table which contained really rather important data. What to do?
One thing you can do to recover the situation quickly (if you’re running 10g or later, that is) is to run the following command:
FLASHBACK TABLE MY_SCHEMA.MY_SUPER_IMPORTANT_TABLE TO BEFORE DROP;
If the table (more...)
Take the following simple SQL statement:
SELECT * FROM dual WHERE 'x' NOT IN (SELECT 'a' FROM dual);
Since ‘x’ cannot be found in our subquery, you’d expect this to return a row from Dual right? Indeed it does:
SQL> SELECT * 2 FROM dual 3 WHERE 'x' NOT IN (more...)
When developing applications which make a lot of use of Javascript, it can be very useful to use the console.log() function to output debug to Firefox’s Firebug console or to Chrome’s Javascript console.
However, such calls will cause errors when run inside IE as it does not by default (more...)
I’ve just noticed that there’s a new version of jQuery UI: 1.9. It includes nifty new widgets including Menu, Spinner and Tooltip. And who doesn’t love new widgets?
You can read about it and see demoes of the new functionality here: http://blog.jqueryui.com/2012/10/jquery-ui-1-9-0/
As far as I’m aware, there’s no out-of-the-box call made available by Apex to allow you to click a particular button in a Region Selector programmatically via Javascript.
The following bit of jQuery will allow you to do this. Just change the string “Personal Bio” to be whatever the string (more...)
Make a FRUITS table.
CREATE TABLE fruits (fruit_name varchar2(30));
Put in 5 bananas, 7 apples and 3 blueberries.
INSERT INTO fruits VALUES ('banana');
INSERT INTO fruits VALUES ('banana');
INSERT INTO fruits VALUES ('banana');
INSERT (more...)
A foray into Plug-Ins
To educate myself in the ways of the new Apex 4.0 Plug-Ins feature, I decided to create a simple item Plug-In which automatically converts all the text entered into the item either to uppercase or to lowercase, depending on which option the developer chooses. I’m (more...)
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