JQuery Alternative to Lightbox, Colorbox

A very nice alternative to Lightbox which uses prototype is ColorBox which uses JQuery very easy to use and has lots of nice features. Check out the example page!

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Money Format Php

Number format function echo number_format(497000,0,”.”,’,'); 497,000 API link to Money format function for Php Examples $number = 1234.56; // let’s print the international format for the en_US locale setlocale(LC_MONETARY, ‘en_US’); echo money_format(‘%i’, $number) . “\n”; // USD 1,234.56 // Italian national format with 2 decimals` setlocale(LC_MONETARY, ‘it_IT’); echo money_format(‘%.2n’, $number) . “\n”; // Eu 1.234,56 [...]

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Currency and Number formatting Rails

API link to Number and Currency formatting methods in rails. Examples number_to_currency(1234567890.50) # => $1,234,567,890.50 number_to_currency(1234567890.506) # => $1,234,567,890.51 number_to_currency(1234567890.506, :precision => 3) # => $1,234,567,890.506 number_to_currency(1234567890.506, :locale => :fr) # => 1 234 567 890,506 € number_to_currency(1234567890.50, :unit => “£”, :separator => “,”, :delimiter => “”) # => £1234567890,50 number_to_currency(1234567890.50, :unit => “£”, :separator [...]

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Setting up Windows Based Development Platform for Php

Download and install Xampp. This will install Apache 2, Mysql, Php and some other basic server software. Grab a copy of HeidiSql windows GUI for Mysql. Next download Your IDE for Php I use NuSphere PhpEd but if you need a free editor try Netbeans it can be used to develop Php and Rails along [...]

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Mysql GUI

HeidiSql is an excellent windows based gui for Mysql. Much better than using phpMyAdmin. Download Heidi here. Can also be used in Ubuntu with wine.

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Installing different versions of Rails

gem install -v 1.2.3 rails –include-dependencies

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Install Rails without rdoc or ri

sudo gem install rails –no-rdoc –no-ri Works for all gem’s.

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Installing git based plugin’s for Rails

Download and install Git and use the following command inside your Application folder. cd vendor/plugins git clone -q git://github.com/tecnoweenie/attachment_fu.git Installs the Attachment Fu plugin for Rails.

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