Anuj Gakhar's Blog

jQuery Validator Plugin and IE8

Anuj Gakhar — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:00:46 +0000

I had been using the super jQuery Validator plugin in one of my projects. And everything was working fine, except in IE8. Isnt that typical of IE? Anyways, the problem was that I was using the validator plugin quite heavily and one of the forms simply refused to work in IE8. I did not try [...]

The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.

Anuj Gakhar — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:42:07 +0000

I was working on a client’s server, in the process of making a site live. I restored the database from a test version of the database and copied over the codebase. Everthing was exactly the same as the test site. Still, all the date related queries were throwing this error. The conversion of a char data [...]

Flex Vertical TabBar With CornerRadius on Left or Right

Anuj Gakhar — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:12:46 +0000

If you are using Flex and want to have a TabBar control that aligns vertically instead of the default “horizontal” behaviour , then you can simply use the “direction” property on the control and make it vertical. You can see an example of that below . Notice how the tabs are now vertically aligned but the [...]

Getting Table Row Counts in Sql 2005

Anuj Gakhar — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:15:24 +0000

I came across a nice tip while reading this article. If you want to get the number of rows in a table , you would normally do a select count(*) from tbl query, which does a table scan and can be a little time consuming query if the table has millions of rows. This little query [...]

Triggering FlexSpy with a Keyboard Shortcut

Anuj Gakhar — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:32:53 +0000

If you are a Flex developer, you are probably aware of what FlexSpy is. FlexSpy is an inspection tool for Flex applications, similar to what Firebug is for HTML applications. FlexSpy is distributed as a .swc file (Flex Library file) which you can simply put under your projects’ “libs” folder and it will become available [...]

Starting up as a Contractor

Anuj Gakhar — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:59:38 +0000

I haven’t really blogged about this before, but approx. 1.5 years ago, I decided to quit my permanent job and start taking up only contract roles. I was a bit worried about this whole contracting thing, when I initially decided to take this route. I was concerned that what if I don’t get a project [...]

How to get Eclipse to show more than 100 Errors/Warnings

Anuj Gakhar — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:50:16 +0000

I was stuck on this issue few days back, when I happened to have more than 100 errors in my project and Eclipse “Problems” window was only showing me the top 100. It took me a while to figure out where to change this , so I thought I would blog it. In your Eclipse IDE [...]

Flex: Casting with AS vs Casting with Braces

Anuj Gakhar — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:35:44 +0000

I gave a telephonic interview yesterday (yes, I am looking for new contract roles these days!) and this question came up. The interviewer asked the difference between Casting with Braces and Casting with the “AS” operator in Flex. I thought I could write a little example to demonstrate the difference between the two. So, lets say [...]

jQuery Validation Plugin and notEqualTo Rule

Anuj Gakhar — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:55:34 +0000

I have been using the excellent jQuery Validation plugin in my latest project. It provides all the basic rules that you will need for validating your form. However, I had a form with 2 username fields on it and the requirement was that they should not be equal to each other. I guess this is [...]

Easiest way to get Twitter Statuses with ColdFusion

Anuj Gakhar — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:37:55 +0000

This post of mine is coming after a long time, I know. The reason for this has been lack of time, being very busy with other things etc. I will try to be more frequent here hereafer. Anyways, in a recent project, I had the requirement to show Twitter statuses on the homepage of the website [...]