Archive for June, 2014

17 Jun 2014

extract data from user agent string

15:29 | oracle, web trick | 881 views

Goal: collect some information about visitors There is some information in the air. The basic source is the user agent string which used by browsers and other gadgets on the internet to show some information about the visitor. Let’s suppose we have a table which contains the user agent strings. From this data we can […]


15 Jun 2014

find the monsters

10:31 | oracle | 801 views

Goal: how to find the big tables in the oracle database Just a quick way to localize the monsters in the database. Of course you need dba rights. If you see the monsters, you can start thinking about the solution. And the indexes: more selects: 1. list of schema vs. size 2. list of object […]


14 Jun 2014

post editor with TAB support and ctrl+s to update post

20:00 | javascript, wordpress | 939 views

Goal: to use the TAB key in the post editor 1. The following code catching the TAB key and replace it with 2 spaces. The second effect is to replace all the TAB occurences (hold the SHIFT key while press a TAB down). 2. You can update your post with alt+p (this is the default), […]


13 Jun 2014

wp loaded javascript files – absolute path to relative one

23:28 | wordpress | 772 views

Goal: convert all the javascript file references to relative The main problem appeared when I tried to check my blog from a virtual machine. In the machine my local blog address started with an IP like this http://192.168.0.100/… and the absolute links were like this: http://localhost/… – crash To solve this problem I need a […]


13 Jun 2014

hosts – how can I save this

22:29 | tricky | 833 views

Goal: to save a file without extension from notepad.exe For example sometimes we need to edit the hosts file. From notepad this is easy, but to save it without .txt or .other extension is a little bit tricky. In the save as panel just put the name “hosts”, and that’s all. Don’t forget to open […]


13 Jun 2014

chromium – full screen javascript control lose after F11 pressed

20:28 | javascript | 989 views

During my work I’ve came across a strange issue in chrome (the situation is the same strange in other browsers…). Here is the ticket for the chromium team. The story is: I try to use the full screen from javascript code. It’s working but we need to say this is like marshland in every browser. […]


11 Jun 2014

no more cache – force the reload

21:13 | javascript, web trick | 740 views

Goal: to avoid the cache provided old file versions If I load an external javascript or css file from js code like this: First time is ok, but second time may be I will receive the file from the cache. To avoid the cache just put some fake parameter to the end of the file […]


11 Jun 2014

server side js/css concatenation

20:44 | php | 725 views

Goal: combine js files on the server side I like to work with independent files. One javascript object one file. This is easy, but to get these files is not. Here is a simple server side script to create one js file from the many. For example the name is main.php. 1. for js files […]


10 Jun 2014

simple horizontal css menu

10:13 | css | 788 views

Goal: Create a simple horizontal menu menu 1   menu 2   menu 3  |   menu 4 html code style


9 Jun 2014

show the function call chain

14:07 | javascript | 779 views

Goal: catch the call chains in javascript I want to see my program’s footprint. So the hard way is to build a log mechanism… The easier is to use my _trace utility. _chain function. To achieve my goal I need to watch all my functions. This is not a complicated task if I use the […]


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