Archive for the ‘ Programming ’ Category

Hawkins Computer Services has an office!

Well after almost 2 years of working from home, we at Hawkins Computer Services finally have a real office space! About two weeks ago, Emmett went on a hardcore search for a good office space in the area that would suffice for the 3 of us. In the span of a week he signed the [ READ MORE ]

Latest work – Internal Kiosk Site

I finally have something really cool to show from my job. We have a client who wanted a “Kiosk” in their rental office that guests could browse through the various units they have available. It did not need to do anything that different than our normal web work….choose arrival date, number of nights, number of [ READ MORE ]

couple of fun and useful jQuery Plugins

I am far from an accomplished web developer, but jQuery is one tool that helps out immensely in writing javascript that “just works”. As many of you are aware, browser differences create all sorts of havoc when trying to write code that navigates the DOM. And writing code from scratch to validate forms is a [ READ MORE ]

The Evils of PHP magic_quotes_gpc

I’m honestly surprised this hasn’t bit me before now. I was working on some OLD code that didn’t have much of any escaping built into it. Ok, I take that back. It had /no/ validation methods whatsoever. So I’m rewriting a good chunk of it so that doing things like entering a person’s name that [ READ MORE ]