http://blogs.whardy.com/john John Peloquin's technology blog at W. Hardy Interactive, Inc. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:49:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) library Calendar control is a very useful item for any dynamic web application requiring users to input dates--for example, when scheduling bill payments, searching for plane flights, booking hotel accommodations, and so on. The YUI control is particularly nice because it is programmatically rich and ... http://blogs.whardy.com/john/2008/05/27/interval-calendar-control/ The GMarker, GEvent, GInfoWindow and related classes in the Google Maps API allow you to easily create markers on a map which are interactive and which provide valuable information to users. Often it is convenient to extend such interaction beyond the actual map itself, allowing other elements in the web ... http://blogs.whardy.com/john/2008/05/18/linking-into-google-maps/ Recently I encountered an interesting (and very frustrating) case of session state corruption occurring in one of our ColdFusion/AJAX-based search applications. The application allows users to search for various types of listings using an interface that features AJAX pagination. This means that as users navigate through pages of search results, ... http://blogs.whardy.com/john/2008/03/21/an-interesting-case-of-session-state-corruption/ Recently I had the opportunity to install Moodle—a PHP-driven, open source course management system for online learning—on one of our enterprise class servers running Sun Solaris 10 and Sun Java System Web Server 7.0. While there were a number of packages available to simplify the installations of some versions of ... http://blogs.whardy.com/john/2008/01/02/moodle-on-solaris/