Tag Archives: Snippet

jQuery: Nice and smooth hover effect

Needed to add a hover effect on some table rows and wanted to make it look nice. Think I managed to get it quite smooth in the end and thought I could share it. 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031// In the document ready event … Continue reading

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JavaScript: Uppercase first letter in a string

In PHP there is a very handy function called ucfirst which Returns a string with the first character of str capitalized, if that character is alphabetic. Needed that in JavaScript, but discovered there was no such thing.

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PHP: How to easily provide JSON and JSONP

Have some server-side data that you would like to grab through an AJAX call? For example by using the jQuery.ajax method? A really easy way of doing this is by using the JSON format.

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PHP: Generating transparent PNG fillers

So, I was fooling around the other day with an HTML table and wanted to make the odd rows slightly darker. Figured I could use for example an 80% transparent black PNG to do that (or could have just assigned … Continue reading

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C#: How to send emails

Sending a basic email message in a C# application is quite easy thanks to a class called SmptClient. We simply need an address to send to, an address to send from, the message we want to send and the client: … Continue reading

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How to check for duplicates

Say you have an IEnumerable<t></t> of some sort and you want to check if it contains any duplicates. How do you do that?

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Generics and checking for null

When writing C#, in Visual Studio, using generics… have you ever tried checking for null? I have always found that a bit of a hassle. Say we have this method which returns the subject if it is not null, and … Continue reading

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