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c# Coalesce function

fbis — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:18:25 +0000

When you’ve been working heavily with c# for a few days, coalesce jumps into your head for a lot of c# issues. Heres a little helper to provide coalesce in .net /// <summary> /// Returns the first non null value, same as SQL's COALESCE() /// </summary> /// <param name="p">Args array</param> /// <returns>First non null value</returns> [...]

jQuery – Syncing select options

fbis — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:01:46 +0000

I had a requirement for a series of select boxes that required the related one to only allow selections above the first. I created a little utility function that enables and disables the options based on a function you supply. Usage is pretty simple. Pass in the first and second select as jQuery objects, then [...]

UAD8: Query String Builder

fbis — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:40:21 +0000

Ever had controls that need to add to the Query String but not duplicate or erase what’s already there? This is a little utility I dug out and just changed to use a generic dictionary recently. Just use it as you would a normal dictionary. When you instantiate a copy it picks up the current [...]

jQuery equal height columns

fbis — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:19:56 +0000

Sometimes equal height columns via css can be an absolute nightmare! If you’re using jQuery for other items on the page you can cheat with the following function : function setEqualHeight(items) { var highest = 0; items.each( function(){ current = $(this).height(); if(current > highest){ highest = current; } }); items.height(highest); }; It just loops the [...]

CMS Update – Preparing for BETA!

fbis — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:37:25 +0000

It’s been a bit quite round here recently! Don’t be fooled! The CMS is more or less finished. Just refactoring and preparing bits and bobs. The actual core itself hasn’t really changed in 6 months and is independent from the CMS, it handles all the page, content and control creation with a single base class that you [...]

IE7/8 and hover on empty elements

fbis — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:35:40 +0000

I had an annoying problem with IE8 today. In the CMS, toolbars appear when you hover over a content block or the page content. All I’ve done is user div:hover. IE though does not recognise the object if its background is set to transparent and is empty. If you set a background colour then it [...]

Get Rendered Html From a Control

fbis — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:32:53 +0000

Whilst working on the CMS I needed to be able to pass back the html a control will render when the user first adds it. The control doesn’t exist on the page yet as the sections are added via javascript. It was very easy to pass in StringWriter to the render function to get the [...]

Javascript dictionary & getIds

fbis — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:14:57 +0000

Coming from a .net background I must admit to missing many of the features that the framework provides like Hastables, Dictionaries and Lists. I've just come up with a really simple dictionary class that I use to hold results from my id parsing routine.

jQuery fbisCalendar

fbis — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:36:04 +0000

Here is my first freely available jQuery plug-in. There are a few more to follow soon including a form builder and a file explorer Overview I know there are a million calendar selectors out there but I needed one that covered historical dates (1800-2100). It displays either as a in place calendar in the page [...]

CMS Framework – Update

fbis — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:48:16 +0000

Been a bit quiet round here lately but not because I’ve not been working on it I’ve been using it for a project at work and converting a lot of my stuff to be compatible with it. It’s running a site atm and doing well. Alpha State Mainly in alpha because things may yet change [...]