Category: WEBDEV

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 →

Adding a Custom Date Parser to jQueryUI’s Date Picker

Today we are going to add a custom Date parsing routine to the JQueryUI Date Picker so it automagically parses dates in a variety of formats. Back in August of 2020, I wrote an article showing you how to incorporate the JQueryUI Date Picker into your WebDev applications. If you have read that article be … Continue reading Adding a Custom Date Parser to jQueryUI’s Date Picker →

New WEBDEV site: Look & Feel Examples

I am working on a new site and we are refining the look and feel for it, the priority and goal for the site is to be as clean and simple as possible. It will be 100% consumer facing. So far we have done a Mobile First style login page, we are undecided if the … Continue reading New WEBDEV site: Look & Feel Examples →

v27 WebDev Zone/Style Issues and Uncle Pete’s Tips

One of the "features" of WEBDEV v27 was a revamp of zone editing (Feature 793). Below is details from the New Features document. It sounds so great and simple, but I believe it is at the core of some of the biggest issues a few of our clients have had with their WEBDEV v27 upgrades. … Continue reading v27 WebDev Zone/Style Issues and Uncle Pete’s Tips →

WEBDEV Style Issue

I ran into an issue with a WEBDEV Style today and I wonder if it, or something similar doesn't have something to do with some of the reports issues some users have had in v25 and v26 with style issues on certain controls after upgrading. Along with showing you the actual change I made to … Continue reading WEBDEV Style Issue →

Disabling Grammarly for an edit control

Are your multiline edit controls jumping around when you click your cursor in them? Do you have the Grammarly extension installed? Well then read on This is an issue that has been plaguing some of us for a while, but it has come up quite a bit lately as I believe grammerly is getting more … Continue reading Disabling Grammarly for an edit control →

Fixing the outdated JQuery Library

We recently had a WEBDEV project that is being used in an extremely security conscious industry. And they flagged our app because it was using JQuery 3.1.1, which has a few know vulnerabilities. It should be noted these vulnerabilities are low to medium risk and mitigated other ways via server configuration etc., but the client … Continue reading Fixing the outdated JQuery Library →

More fun with the JQuery UI Date Picker

I have written about the JQuery UI date picker before, be sure to check out that article if you haven't seen it. Today we got a request from a client that need the ability to allow the user to clear the date. So I had to put on my thinking (googling) cap and come up … Continue reading More fun with the JQuery UI Date Picker →

AWS 2019 Server WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service Errors

We have been battling an issue for several months, it seems to only effect Amazon AWS servers running Windows Server 2019. We have had 5 servers exhibit this behavior. So what exactly is the issue? Suddenly the server will no longer be able to establish outgoing connections. Websites, etc. all still function fine, unless you … Continue reading AWS 2019 Server WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service Errors →

Apache Strips off Basic Authorization Header

I shared this in Dallas, with my Webservices presentation, but hadn't gotten around to making a blog post. Today we had someone that was running into this problem. What exactly is the issue? When you do a REST request and include a User and Password in the standard parameters that is turned into a Basic … Continue reading Apache Strips off Basic Authorization Header →