How-To: Fix Problems with Google Maps and Internet Explorer: Grey Background, Clipping, Off centre etc

Ev — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:34:11 +0000

We’ve just developed a Google Maps application – all using Firefox – and started to test it in IE. We were shocked to find that our map looks completely off centre and have a big grey backround across them. Moving the map with the mouse causes them to clip and look shocking!

See below:

So how do we fix this? It turned out that IE doesn’t like you writing script inside a

tag – which we were doing. So we simply changed this code to run on the onLoad() event of the page, and it was all fixed!

How-To: Add days to a date with Mysql

Ev — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:20:41 +0000

A common thing you need to do in mysql is add an interval of time to a date in a query. Here is a simple example of how to do this:

SELECT Risk.*
FROM Risk
WHERE (Risk.Next_Reminder_Due IS NULL OR
       Risk.Next_Reminder_Due < DATE_ADD(NOW(), INTERVAL 7 DAY))

This returns all ‘risks’ that either have a Next Reminder Due of NULL or within the next week.

Read more about Mysql’s date functions on the Mysql Date & Time Functions Manual Page.

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How-To: Fix Problems with Google Maps and Internet Explorer: Grey Background, Clipping, Off centre etc

How-To: Add days to a date with Mysql