So you want to automate a table-to-table import in QuickBase. Well, here’s a nifty little command-line script that uses the QuickBase PHP SDK to do just that. How it works When run from the command-line, the php scripts accepts two paramaters: dbID of the table with the saved import, and then the importID of the [...]
I’ve been doing some Chrome extension development in the past week and as you may or may not know, chrome extensions are allowed to make cross-domain ajax calls. This is allowed because of the Chrome extension permission model which requires a user installing an extension to agree to that the installed application may access your [...]
Here’s a quick little tutorial to show you how you can create a dynamic robots.txt file with the Zend Framework. My robot files aren’t usually complex since I’m really careful about not putting anything that could be indexed in the web root, but there are some cases where you may want to have more control [...]
I’ve been using @font-face more and more over the past couple of months as a way to use custom fonts on websites I manage, but the issue I keep running into is that the contents of the page (including background sprites) will flicker a second after the content has loaded. It’s really ugly. The best [...]
Over the past few weeks, spammers have been inundating the QuickBase Contact Us form with automated spam. This has been quite a nuisance for the folks at QuickBase who read and respond to these contact form submissions. In response to the complaints of spam, it was suggested that we add a captcha to the for [...]
It seems that the homepage of Olin College of Engineering has been hacked. I use the term hacked loosely because it looks like the website is just a victim of some sort of third-party software exploit or it could be that they haven’t quite nailed down some of the permissions on their servers (they are [...]
I can’t tell you how annoyed I’ve been that I have to carry around *teen different customer rewards cards on my keychain. It’s ugly, bulky, and just a waste in many respects. Today, I saw an article on Mashable about a free application that completely takes care of managing these for me. The app, known [...]
Below is a A/B testing Zend Framework View Helper that will allow you to easily create a custom A/B test in the event you either don’t want to pay for a tool, don’t want to share your data with Google or some other need that other tools can’t fulfill. Using the A/B Test View Helper [...]
Last month, I created a Facebook group dedicated to McGinnis Genealogy. If you manage to find this post by searching for some ‘McGinnis’ related keyword, please feel free to join the group and contribute to other McGinnis relatives who are looking for McGinnis genealogy info. P4GJAGVPJFEF
The Google Visualization API has a lot of really useful charts and graphs that, when combined with a web-based database like QuickBase, can really be powerful. Here’s a complete example of how to use the PHP SDK for QuickBase to get data from a QuickBase and use it side-by-side with the Google Visualization API to [...]
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