Wayne May

Detecting a Multi-Dimensional Array in PHP

wnemay — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:15:54 PDT

I recently had to find a quick way to check if an array is a multi-dimensional array, only to find that there are no PHP built-in function to do this. Here is a quick and easy way to do it: function is_multi_array( $arr ) { return is_array($arr[$key($arr)]); } This can easily be used in the following context: $a [...]

Droid X Keyboard running on your HTC Evo 4G

wnemay — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:24:32 PDT

The Droid X keyboard has been ripped from the phone, and can be downloaded and installed on your Evo

How to make your Sprint Evo 4G last longer…

wnemay — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:12:39 PDT

The Sprint EVO 4G, although and awesome phone, has a huge problem. The battery life sucks. The 1Ghz snapdragon, 4.3" display, and a 4G connection is not doing the phone good when it comes to the battery.

Getting the name of a variable, as a string, in PHP

wnemay — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:49:40 PDT

While working on a debug function for php I realized that there is no core function to display the name of a variable.

Making Your Radio Group Tab-able Using jQuery

wnemay — Thu, 06 May 2010 09:52:30 PDT

Recently I had to come up with a solution to make radio boxes tab-able. Mozilla Firefox allows you to tab over each radio box in a group, however, all other browsers do not. The solution is actually quite simple. First, in your HTML make sure to name your radio boxes with the same name, but [...]

Moving the Ubuntu Window Buttons to the Right

wnemay — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:24:08 PDT

With Ubuntu 10.04 the window buttons moved to the top left of the window. Why? Ubuntu is trying to convert MacOS X users. Its frustrating though, and I keep missing my window buttons on the right. Luckily Gnome made it easy to move these buttons. In Ubuntu, hit ALT+F2, then type gconf-editor and click run. [...]

Ubuntu 10.04 with ACPI issue on my Toshiba L505 laptop.

wnemay — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:34:18 PDT

So, you downloaded your free copy of Ubuntu 10.04 today, quickly burnt it to CD and booted it up, right? In my case, things did not go as smooth. I have a Toshiba L505 GS6000 laptop, with a 64bit AMD Triton II Dual Core processor. I started Ubuntu only to be greeted with tons of [...]