It continues to amaze me the number of times a client give us an Access database that needs to be converted to a web application. One of the tools I have found to work really well at making the conversion is Access To MySQL. It is a free utility that will help convert your Access databases to the open source mySQL. Hey, you never know when you’ll get a similar request for this and I suggest bookmarking this article just in case you do one day because this utility made it absolutely simple to do so. We’re talking minutes not hours!
Speed Up JavaScript Object Detection
Dean Edwards has a great JavaScript tip that will show you how to Speed Up Object Detection. Â New theory must be an outstanding tip if it’s the very first on a supposedly recurring series! This is valuable because of all the irregularities that one finds even today in browsers (and not only Internet Explorer), which force us to create different branches for different browsers. The particular tip that Edwards is showing us today with the help of code snippets within the article allows us to perform object detection only one time when we call addEvent for instance, rather than every time we call it.