Author: Pete Halsted

Styling issues with the new HTML Edit Control or How a little jQuery can save the day!

Gavin Webb, brought me an interesting CSS issue today with the new HTML Edit Control, that I wanted to share with everyone. Along with solving a specific issue, I think it is a good exercise in understanding how I figure out and then solve this types of CSS issues. The Issue This example has two … Continue reading Styling issues with the new HTML Edit Control or How a little jQuery can save the day! →

Let’s Encrypt + Certbot = SSL Free and Easy!

Alternate Title: True Confessions of a Web Admin As I am sure most of you know, google is pushing for the entire web to use HTTPS / SSL. Even for brochure or marketing sites. And we definitely should be using SSL for anything that is sharing/collecting data, which describes most of our web projects I … Continue reading Let’s Encrypt + Certbot = SSL Free and Easy! →

Penetration Testing, Cookies, and Apache Versions

In the never-ending saga of penetration testing, we got dinged this morning on a clients server with the following error After much research I discovered that the reason it was complain was it ways getting that Set Cookie line coming in as a Header on responses from the site. BTW, I discovered that you can … Continue reading Penetration Testing, Cookies, and Apache Versions →

File Manager Primer – Deleting Records

One of the points of the FileManager classes is they give you the same basic features as standard file access. But then can be extended to handle additional features and functions. I realized I have not written an article covering the basic file access functions and how to extend them so it seems like a … Continue reading File Manager Primer – Deleting Records →

v28 – Code Hashtags

One of my presentations at wxDevcon was "Uncle Pete Loves v28", in that presentation we spent an hour exploring some of the new features and improvements in v28. Over the coming weeks, I will be sharing much of that information via blog post. One of the new features in v28 is Code Hashtags and I … Continue reading v28 – Code Hashtags →

Strange Compile Error after v28 conversion

We converted several projects from v27 to v28 yesterday for one of our clients and ran into a very strange error. Suddenly one of our class methods was reporting several compile errors referencing the incorrect use of the THEN keyword When looking at the code you can see the issue is the space between the … Continue reading Strange Compile Error after v28 conversion →

v28 WAS (Web Application Server) upgrade issues

I just wanted to post a few quick tips/warnings concerning v28 WAS upgrades. I have upgraded quite a few servers for several of our clients as well as our own now, and some went very smoothly, others ran into a few issues, but nothing that I couldn't overcome. These issues haven't been consistent enough for … Continue reading v28 WAS (Web Application Server) upgrade issues →

HTML Display Control Drag and Drop

We are using the HTML display control to display images and/or PDFs stored on Amazon S3 in a project and ran into a couple of issues when we tried to implement drag and drop. Continue on for more details and my solution As I said we are storing files on Amazon S3 for this project, … Continue reading HTML Display Control Drag and Drop →

Quick Tip – Additional IDE Search Filters

It has been a while since we have had a little tip from your Uncle Pete. It never ceases to amaze me that as long as I have been using the WX IDE there are still features to be discovered that I wasn't aware of. While working with a client today via a remote session, … Continue reading Quick Tip – Additional IDE Search Filters →

More Enhancements to the Browser Date Parser

Last Week I wrote about a custom date parser procedure that could be used along with jQueryUI's DatePicker, and I said it could handle pretty much any date format you could throw at it. Well turns out it couldn't ... but now it can! If none of this is making any sense to you be … Continue reading More Enhancements to the Browser Date Parser →