This is the answer to last week’s Problem of the Week: One thing that I like to do when solving these types of problems is determining what percentage of the work each participant will do. The problem stated that Tasheera Read more…
A while back, when I first starting working with OpenKM, I accidentally removed the UserRole role from the root directory. For the longest time, I had know clue how to add the UserRole role back to that folder, or any Read more…
A group of friends are preparing for a party. Tasheera and Omar are in charge of preparing the balloons. Tasheera takes eight seconds to inflate each balloon, three seconds to tie each, and a five second break in between each Read more…
Today, I was asked how to select each element in an array as a separate row. In other words, I needed to convert an array into rows (one for each array element). Below is the right way to do it Read more…
I was surfing the internet a bit today and starting thinking about universally unique IDs. I came across this site which generates the UUIDs on the server side and then decided to make my own pseudo globally unique ID generator: Read more…
Recently, since the DBA wasn’t available, I had to assume his duties and grant SELECT privileges to a user (let’s say john_doe) for all of the tables in the public schema. After quite a bit of research (Google of course), Read more…
As many of you may know, in JavaScript, you can define a date object by specifying a string that looks like a date. Recently I created a page using AJAX to get counter information, including the date/time that the page Read more…
Over the past year I have been learning about so many different OpenSource packages it isn’t even funny. One thing that is available for free, but also has a paid version (which we at using at UniTek Global Services), is Read more…
The following is an implementation of a binary search for arrays which gives you the ability to do fuzzy matches (default), exact matches, or specify your own comparison function: I used the following to test the normal execution of this Read more…
One thing that I came to grips with today is the fact that if an error occurs in one of the functions that was bound to the document’s ready pseudo-event (I say this because the event doesn’t necessarily exist in Read more…