Title: Embedding QRCode Barcodes in Intuit QuickBase This post will describe how you can use the Google Charts API to embed to dynamically create QRCodes for contacts in a QuickBase online database application. QR Codes are a 2D barcode that can store a bit more data than standard barcodes, such as a complete person’s contact [...]
Over the past few months, I’ve taken up the hobby of mushroom hunting and identification. This has caused quite the few people to scratch their heads, not excluding my neighbor who recently inquired about the “indoor greenhouse” I had setup in my basement to look like a lab of some sort. Once I explained to [...]
So you want to use a custom font on your website and you want it to be search-engine friendly, support multiple browsers (including IE6), and you want to use a pure CSS solution because you’re tired of the work involved with sIFR and cufón. Well, @font-face to the rescue. Convert Your Fonts: Different browsers require [...]
In this tutorial, I will show you how to get started with writing command-line interface (CLI) scripts using PHP. Here are a few reasons why you might want to write a CLI application in PHP: You want to write a tool for admin-ing your server, but you’re more comfortable using PHP You don’t need to [...]
Here’s basically what i think about healthcare reform in a nutshell. It should be fairly straightforward and hopefully fair. First: I’m extremely satisfied with my healthcare situation today. I (and my daughter) have great coverage at an affordable price. True, my company pays a lot of my insurance, but i assume they do so because [...]
If you have a question about QuickBase, the use of the api in particular, please ask in the comments of this post. I will update this blog post to include your question and my answer so that others who come across my site can see it. Many of you have been emailing me GREAT questions [...]
so i was doing some seo today and i noticed that in google webmaster tools, the “backlink” report was reporting thousands more links than what google was reporting in a link: search. so, i went and i posted a question in the webmaster tools forum here. ultimately, the answer i was given was that yes [...]
i’ve had a few requests for examples of how to use the quickbase php api wrapper. so here goes: setup the quickbase object with login info include the library and setup the object by passing in username, password, true/false (xml/http), and dbID of the db/table you’ll be transacting with. 12include_once(’../includes/qb.php’); $quickbase = new QuickBase(’username’,'password’, true, [...]
I did some work this week with integrating webex into the quickbase website. As a result, i ended up putting together a wrapper for the WebEx XML API in order to speed up development time. If you’re going to be using webex with PHP, check it out. It doesn’t have full support for all API methods [...]
so you want to view the number of requests to your webserver per second. here’s a quick and easy php script that you can run from command line. 1234while(true){ echo exec(’cat /var/log/httpd/access_log | wc -l’) . "n"; sleep(1); } it isn’t perfect, but it will work for doing some basic [...]
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