Yearly Archives: 2008

Remove spaces from an input field with JavaScript

December 10, 2008 | 2 Comments

This is a small snippet to remove the spaces from an input field using JavaScript. It can be useful when you want a value without spaces, or when you want to replace the spaces from the input field with other characters.Continue reading →

Copy from Firefox and paste into Excel

December 3, 2008 | 2 Comments

You’ve probably already noticed that if you try to copy a table from Firefox and paste into an Excel spreadsheet, using the classic methods the table formatting is not preserved, and the data from the table is copied into one cell from the Excel spreadsheet.Continue reading →

Enable compositing effects for metacity in Ubuntu

November 25, 2008 | 1 Comment

Desktop effects in Ubuntu 8.10 can be used without Compiz, by enabling compositing in Metacity – the Gnome’s default window manager.Continue reading →

Disable foreign key checks in MySQL

November 24, 2008 | 3 Comments

Disabling foreign key checks in MySQL is usefull when you are dealing with tables that use foreign keys (InnoDB engine).Continue reading →

Shell script to extract the exchange rates from BNR (Romania)

August 13, 2008 | 2 Comments

Here is a simple script to get the exchange rates.Continue reading →