Archive for September, 2008

Oracle 10g: Creating external tables from a text file in a windows system

29, Sep 2008

External Tables let you query data in a flat file as though the file were an Oracle table. In 10g, you can write out data to an external table, but you can’t write to an existing table. While external tables can be queried, they’re not usable in many ways regular Oracle tables are. You cannot [...]

Table-less layout: aligning form elements

29, Sep 2008

With PWAG‘s recommendation on web accessibility in mind and trying to get higher page rank in search engines, as a web designer we are responsible for making our web pages comply with accessibility standards. In this post, I’ll show you a simple way to align form elements using cascading style sheet. We need first to [...]

Readily available color scheme

28, Sep 2008

Haven’t decided yet which color to fit your site’s theme? Worry no more as Adobe.com’s Kuler project provides that for you. Kuler is a color collaboration service. It offers space for those who visit the site to view colors and information related to colors and it allows registered users to additionally create, share and store [...]

Being at the top

27, Sep 2008

Yes! I mean literally at the top of the world. Being at the top like the photo above taken at Mt. Kanlaon’s creater Negros, Philippines in 2004, a very fulfilled emotion will keep your blood rushing through your viens with excitement. Kanlaon has an elevation of 2,435 meters and a base diameter of 30 km and is [...]

Table-less layout anyone?

26, Sep 2008

The above layout can simply be achieved by defining an outer div class of fixed width and separate inheriting classes for each column. We chose to define separate class for the three columns so that we have the leverage to further subdivide each div. Below is a sample CSS definition and HTML equivalent code of the given example.

Which PHP web framework best works for you?

26, Sep 2008

I’ve done my research. Most common you would stumble upon while doing your google are Cake, Symfony, Zend Framework and Drupal. They were first to release and so they got a wider community user base. But what are the features in considering a web framework? Personally, I go for ease of use, maintainability, scalability and [...]

WP Theme: Tradean released

26, Sep 2008

It’s been a year since I’ve been longing to release my own downloadable WP theme inspired by DesignDisease’s BloggingPro theme. I did this a year already but got my nerve to get a domain only this time and announced the release of Rotarian. The theme Tradean is perfect for organizations looking for a simple yet [...]

Changing IP and hostname in Solaris 10

24, Sep 2008

It can be daunting to stumble upon results in your search where the information is not really complete and working given the situation of your work. So I decided to post here my experience with changing IP on Solaris 10 installation. This is tested on an X86 with the 2008 release of Solaris 10. Changing [...]


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