Chromium Operating System
As many of you may know, Chromium is an opensource project that is basically an Operating System built on Linux and is just like working in …
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In-depth guides, insights, and best practices for modern software engineering
Super Easy Email Validation AS2
I needed a quick and easy way to check for the basics of an email address.
Does it contain “@” and “.” symbols.
This is by no …
Read Article →VLC Cache Rant
The first time this ran it took for freakin’ ages!
This should take less than a few minutes
What the hell is that supposed to mean? Less than …
Read Article →ODBC SQL Server Memory General Network Error
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error ‘80004005’
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Shared Memory]General network error. Check your …
XML cannot be the whole program
What the hell does that mean?
You can get this error thrown up in your good old trusty Firebug console.
It expects a script to be returned as an ajax …
Mocha Java Decompiler Download
Mocha is a Java Decompiler and is 100% FREE to use.
The readme.txt file in the Mocha distribution offers the free usage license:
The distribution …
EAI_NODATA
Error message: Connection attempt failed with “EAI_NODATA – No address associated with nodename”.
The above error occured while using …
Read Article →1180 Call to a possibly undefined method navigateToURL
1180 Call to a possibly undefined method navigateToURL
If you get the above error when trying to run your flash actionscript 3 file, you are obviously …
Read Article →Test Your Password Strength
I came across this site today and it’s quite an interesting one as it works out the approximate time it would take a desktop pc to crack the …
Read Article →How to use a Timer in Actionscript 3
It is really easy to create a Timer in Actionscript 3.
Instantiate the Timer Class and pass a time in millions of 1000 to it to work in seconds.
var …Google Background Image
Google now allows you to add a background image to the google homepage to apparently make it more, like, home.. hmmmm
Just by clicking the button at …
Read Article →How to Hire a Hacker
I came across a very interesting and quite funny read about hiring programmers.
How to Hire a Hacker: http://www.setec.org/hirehacker.html
The article …
Read Article →If the program is already running, close it before attempting to run.
Launch Failed!
If the program is already running, close it before attempting to run.
I don’t know how many times I have gotten this error …
Read Article →Random Number In ASP for no Flash Caching
This is an example of how to create a random number in Classic ASP in order to append to a swf file so that the browser does not cache the swf file. …
Read Article →Why we don’t choose MSSQL!
Everybody always raves how great Microsoft SQL Server is, and how much data it can hold, and how much bigger it’s “package” is than …
Read Article →How Do You Fire A Client?
How do you fire a client?
Let’s face it, some clients can be a real nightmare.
There are a whole bunch of tell-tail signs that a client is going …
Read Article →How to get ‘how many days in February’ using Javascript?
It is quite handy to have a function that can tell you how many days there are in February due to the leap year shift of either 28 or 29 days.
Below …
Weird Pagination on a Google Page
Not sure how long this one will last, but for now:
Go to: http://www.google.co.za/search?q=MFI/06/ASA-778658&hl=en&start=0&sa=N
If you …
Read Article →Actionscript 2 – PHP Data Transfer
In the below example we will use Actionscript 2 to call a remote PHP file that will return data to it.
It is a simple way of transferring data between …
Unique Random Numbers in PHP
If you would like to show random numbers using PHP you can do this:
I needed this for generating unique lottery-style numbers for a contest page. The …
Read Article →HTML mail() Sending as Plain Text
$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "SUBJECT";
$message = "<b>MESSAGE</b>";
$headers = 'MIME-Version: …Turbo C++ in DosBox for Windows 64bit
I had to compile a C++ application under a DOS environment and was running Windows 7 64bit.
Firstly, Turbo C++ is a 32 bit x86 application and …
Read Article →Case Insensitivity with .htaccess files
If you have an .htaccess file to control the flow of URI’s on your site you may want to look at adding a nice little “case …
Actionscript2: Split string by line length with & without word-wrap
Split string into sentences by max line length.
This uses a character array but doesn’t use word-wrapping.
var personalMessage: String = …