Contents - (Web) Application Development - OmegaJunior Net
mysql_paramquery() - Allowing for unlimited numbers of parameters in MySQL SQL statements in PHP
JCC (Javascript Circular Charting) - Generating circular charts (disc charts, ellipse charts, venn diagrams, pie charts) inside the browser using nothing but javascript, css, html, and a couple basic images.
Scrolled paging - Scrolled paging, simple method. To prevent loading too much data into a web page, we split up the data into smaller sets called pages. This article provides one way of stepping through those pages.
Cross-browser pop-unders - How to create and display modal dialogs looking like regular windows, using nothing but javascript.
Circular Navigation - Breaking free from those pesky rectangles and showing your navigation in a circle. No plug-ins, no images required.
Test case: CSS Animation - How to use a bit of CSS and a bit of Javascript DHTML to create reusable and easily maintainable animations.
Test case: HTML Objects and Fallbacks - What is needed to show HTML objects in various browsers, test case to show what your current browser can and cannot.
VB.Net: Dynamic calls to COM Dlls - How to execute unmanaged methods inside non-Net COM Dlls from within VB.Net, using as much managed code as possible, in run-time when the Dll itself is unknown.
Portfolio - Overview of the web sites and applications we created and helped create.
Setting out to code a Tic Tac Toe - Insight into information systems development, analysis, and programming, by using the game of Tic Tac Toe as an example.
SVG Boxes - SVG Boxes as an antidote to all the rounded corners
Game: Sumbrero Puzzle Solver - Helps solving Sumbrero Puzzles. Tests whether your solution adds up. Several variations available.
Opera 9 mysteries - Opera 9 baffles some of us continuously. Some of the mysteries are outlined in this article.
Game: Surakarta - The Indonesian game of Surakarta is much like Chess with Pawns only. We present a Flash Game Board, a description, and an on-line game board to play the game yourself. Might not work in MSIE.
GUI: Landscape theme - Simulating a 3-dimensional space in a web page, cross-browser, advanced CSS.
CSS / Javascript: Hovering hierarchical menus - One method for creating pop-up menus meant for dynamic menu generating systems, using CSS only with a Javascript fallback for unhoverable browsers.
Bug case: Opera Mac 6.03 front/back layering bug - The Opera browser for MacOS, version 6.03, had a rendering bug which showed itself when absolutely positioned elements and statically positioned elements were used on the same page.
Bug case: Table Rendering Bug - Most browsers have a rendering bug maming the width of table columns in case a width is set for a spanned column.
Image map as background image - Proof of concept showing that it is possible to use a background image as an image map... with a catch.
MS Access 97: Split and Join - The VBA behind MS Access 97 lacks some implementations that ease the life of a programmer. Two of these are Split and Join, which can be found in later versions. Here is a way to build them yourself.
GUI: Spatial Interface - Ever thought of making your web site look like a library? Here is one way of achieving just that. Usability experts loathe it!
Javascript: Web Store Example - Using hidden frames to store shopping cart information on the client, this web store example saves the server lots of memory.
Game: Pong! - Yet another game rewritten in Javascript. This time we play Pong! One-player game. MSIE will refuse to play this. Silly little browser.
MS Access / ASP: Dates - If you find yourself wrestling with the display and storage of dates in varying notational formats, forget about the date and only work with the double used by MS Access to store it.
The internet discriminates - How automated code generators (Programming and Design Environments) lead to lazy developers and subsequently to the discrimation of improved methods and applications.
ASP: retrieving records from a database - How to retrieve a list of records from a database (in this case MS Access), have a web visitor choose from that list and show the selected record on the same web page.
Javascript: Includes - How to minimize maintenance time for web sites by using menus included with Javascript, with a fall-back for browsers that have no support for Javascript or have it disabled.