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jqGrid Local Data Live Search
Mar 4th
jqGrid is an incredibly powerful and flexible plugin for jQuery that allows you to build data grids using nothing but Javascript, HTML, and CSS. I recently wanted to allow live filtering of local results (no AJAX queries, just parsing local data) based on a search string. View the demo and then follow along below.
Basic HTML StructureBelow is some very basic HTML that you can use to build a jqGrid.
<html>
<head>
<!--snipped necessary JS and CSS includes here-->
<title>jqGrid Live Search Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>jqGrid Live Search Demo</h2>
<table id="list"></table>
</body>
</html>
Create A Grid
This snippet will create a grid using More >
Ubuntu 10.04 in VMWare Fusion
Feb 27th
I installed the 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) 64-bit alpha 3 this morning to check out some of the new features. And since I’ve done a few other articles about running Ubuntu in a VM I thought I’d share the experience yet again.
If you’re running VMWare Fusion 3.0+ (or the current release of Workstation 7) then the version of VMWare Tools you have with your software can successfully install with no manual intervention. Simply pick easy install and let VMWare do all the work.
If you’re running an older version you will want to take a look at my Ubuntu 9.10 instructions for help with getting open-vm-tools More >
SNI Support in Chromium OS X
Feb 24th
As of r39934 Chromium now supports the server_name TLS extension (server name indication) in OS X (latest build). This support requires OS X 10.5.7 or later. Hopefully it’ll make its way into a dev/beta/stable release of Google Chrome itself soon.
For those who are more curious than they ought to be about how I wrote this patch… Apple added support in their Secure Transport library for the server_name TLS extension, but has not updated their documentation. As of 10.5.7 (or possibly 10.5.6) the SSLSetPeerDomainName function — which is ostensibly used for OS level certificate verification — causes OS X to send the More >
5D Mark II Video – One Year In
Feb 6th
When I purchased my 5D I told myself I’d try my hand at a video. Well, one year later I’ve finally worked up the ambition to learn some video editing and publish something This video represents the past year of owning this camera. I learned a great deal in the process (mostly about how to shoot better source footage for the future), but I hope you all enjoy it. Click here to go to the Vimeo page to view in HD or download the original 1080p source. The non-HD (bleh) version appears below1.
5D Mark II One Year from Paul Kehrer on Vimeo.
- Hopefully a More >
No Interfaces Available In Wireshark Mac OS X
Jan 31st
Many new Wireshark users on Mac OS X run into an issue where no interfaces show up when trying to begin packet capture. If you attempt to manually input an interface (such as en0) this error will occur:
The capture session could not be initiated ((no devices found) /dev/bpf0: Permission denied).
To have the interfaces show up properly you’ll need to widen the permissions on the Berkeley packet filter (BPF). By default they look like this:
crw------- 1 root wheel 23, 0 Jan 31 13:47 /dev/bpf0
We need the filter to be readable by non-root, so open Terminal.app and run this command:
sudo chmod 644 /dev/bpf*
Unfortunately every time you reboot this will More >
Costa Rica Photo Journal
Jan 29th
I have returned from my trip to Costa Rica! Typically I don’t write about my personal experiences on this blog, but I’ve decided to try a photo journal style entry this time. Don’t worry, your regular nerd posts will resume shortly. As always, click the photo to go to the Flickr page. From there you can view any photo in much larger sizes. Be sure to view the set in its entirety as well.
Sunday, January 24This bird was sitting near the patio of my hotel room in the morning
A boy picks something out of the water at sunset on the beach
Monday, More >