Category Archives: Web development

UUIDv4 in MySQL

Although MySQL has a UUID() function, it returns a version 1 UUID, which is time-based and has mostly been replaced by the completely random version 4. I recently needed a v4 in a query, and adapted this from some different options I found online: You can either use this inline in your select statement, or convert […]

Fixing NextGEN Gallery and wp-typography compatibility

I figured out what broke the images on this site a while back. I run several plugins on this wordpress site, among which are NextGEN Gallery (an image gallery plugin) and wp-typography (which cleans up typography and styles certain parts of the text). However, a patch of NextGEN gallery a while back broke the compatibility of these […]

Instant onChange with IE checkboxes

Browser differences are a daily fact of life for webdevelopers. It is something you either learn to deal with, or it kills you before 40. Some of these are just plain stupid, but some are simply different ways of interpreting the standard. A good example is the onChange event. This is a simple event, commonly […]