Archive for the 'Coding' Category


AJAX Conquered

May 14th, 2006

I knew I was going to find a way out of the IE mess. A little skeptical about what I’d be able to find, I Googled reusing xmlhttprequest objects in ie and hit the jackpot on the first try. Here’s the solution, which I got from Pavan Keely’s blog.
Currently, my custom AJAX class works perfectly. [...]

AJAX Nuances

May 12th, 2006

I got a book on Ajax (Ajax in Action) some centuries ago (January) and lifted the custom class Eric Pascarello et al used. I discovered I didn’t like their logic very much and decided to write mine to make use of just one XMLHttpRequest object.
That was when I ran into a very annoying snag — [...]

Impatience

April 23rd, 2006

I must be the most impatient creature on the surface of this earth — especially when it comes to learning. Everytime I learn something, I’m tempted to move directly to what interests me — not the preliminaries.
C++ is the classic example. I’ve gone back to it and I’m trying not to give in to the [...]

MTN Clone

April 5th, 2006

I was recently told by my former boss from CADS Consulting to collaborate with him on an educational project he got. He’s new to PHP and wants to make a PHP version of what he has already [we wrote it together in Asp.NET].
The project is sponsored by MTN Nigeria so I had to come up [...]

Simplicity

February 1st, 2006

I’ve been very hush-hush about this but there’s this web project I intend to start - it’s called Simplicity. I’m going to be writing in Asp.NET but just for the fun of it I’ll write a PHP version when I’m through.
If anything, Simplicity is going to be anything but simple. I’m using plenty of Ajax [...]

AuthWare Friendly Urls & Bug List

January 17th, 2006

Language - PHP
Friendly Urls
Why did I suddenly decide to create friendly Urls for AuthWare. I must tell the truth - I never really intended to. There was a stage at which I wanted to restructure it to utilise Apaches mod_rewrite.
I’ve always had this thing for not comprehending regular expressions. In fact I hardly ever use [...]