Author Archives | Alvin
Alvin - who has written 341 posts on Alvin Poh’s Blog.
Alvin is a Singaporean who's interested in marketing, techy stuff and likes to just figure out how the two can work with each other. On top of his blog, you can also follow him on Twitter.
How To Check All Checkboxes In A Form With Javascript
I had an application that had a long list of checkboxes in a form. I wanted the ability to check all the checkboxes at once, or uncheck them at once. However, after googling for a solution, it seemed that all of them required me to label all my checkboxes with the same name. The nature [...]
Continue reading...Thecus N4100Pro Review – Best NAS for Small Office Home Office Use
Friday, April 1, 2011
The Thecus N4100Pro NAS is a relatively old model, but very affordably priced. It doesn’t have as many features as other models in the 4-bay NAS range, such as the QNAPs or Synologys, but it does what I needed it to do well, which was to be a primary fileserver. Thecus N4100Pro NAS Packaging It’s [...]
Continue reading...How To Sort A Multidimensional Array By One Element In PHP
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
I had a table’s worth of listings and had stored all the values in a multidimensional array in PHP. The problem was, I needed to sort the multidimensional array, but based on just one element. Here’s the easiest, fastest solution that I found from the array_multisort function page of PHP (thanks to zequez at gmail [...]
Continue reading...How To Subtract 2 Count Values Using SQL Statements
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
If you’re developing an application that makes use of SQL statements, you may come across a time when you’ll require to count() values from a table. You may also come across a time when you’ll need to subtract a count() value from another. The good news is that you don’t have to retrieve both count() [...]
Continue reading...How To Fix The Problem Of Icons Disappearing in Your Mac’s Dock
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Sometimes certain icons in your Mac dock will just disappear. For example, the Firefox icon might disappear and you’ll see a blank space with just the Firefox name instead of the icon. I’m not sure why this occurs, but it’s some form of corruption to the dock settings file, so you’ll need to reset it. [...]
Continue reading...How To Open All Mailto Links With GMail Automatically in Firefox
Monday, March 14, 2011
The great thing about Firefox is that it has a built-in option to set mailto links to open up in GMail. That means you don’t have to stick with Outlook or Thunderbird or any of the desktop programs. To change your mailto handler in Firefox, just go to Tools > Options > Applications tab, and [...]
Continue reading...How To Fix The Problem Of Flash Always Crashing in Firefox
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
I love Firefox, but I hate how it works with Flash. Essentially, it doesn’t work and causes hair-pulling frustration. I tried looking around to see if any other people are facing the same problems, and it’s clear that I’m not alone in this situation. From the various posts online, it’s a problem that has plagued [...]
Continue reading...
Monday, April 11, 2011
0 Comments