Matthew Steven - PHP, Web Development

Fixing Drupal's Taxonomy Menu Modules's Tooltip / Title Clutter

Matt — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:16:43 +0000

Drupal's Taxonomy Menu is very useful for organizing your site, but its developers have added a real nuisance in the form of the title attribute to the "a" tags it generates when paired with a suckerfish menu in a theme or "nice menus" module.

Here's a patch to dismiss that problem, run it from the "modules" folder in your Drupal installation.

XFCE4 review: After Over 10 Years with KDE, I'm Moving to XFCE, and Xubuntu!

Matt — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:18:02 +0000

In choosing a Linux desktop, I want something both highly stable and great looking. I stare at these monitors for 10-14 hours a day! Speed and ease of configuration/use are also important. This post is about my journey from KDE4 to XFCE4, and is also a review of sorts.

jQuery Ajax Requests on IE6 Need Extra Help To Parse

Matt — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:29:51 +0000

Using jQuery's .get .post or .ajax features to parse xml results, you may find that only Internet Explorer 6 fails to parse your xml result in the callback function. You can always count on your friend IE6 to crush productivity!

A PHP Discovery: perltidy, meet phptidy

Matt — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:15 +0000

It seems that the many people who have been looking for a php beautifier now have a very nicely done perltidy work-alike in Magnus Rosenbaum’s new phptidy program.