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 …
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In-depth guides, insights, and best practices for modern software engineering
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 = …Search and Replace Anchor Href using Javascript
I have a site that is under development and it was made really badly so I needed a quick way to replace all anchors on page to the relevant path.
The …
Read Article →Error 29506 while installing SQL Server Management Studio Express
I was trying to install Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express (what a long name) on a machine and kept getting error 29506 right near the end …
Read Article →Swap HTML Elements Using Javascript
It is quite easy to use javascript to swap between divs or any other html dom elements.
Using the function below you can pass the id of the element to …
A PHP Mail Class
Below is a Mail class I created in PHP, it requires 4 arguments on initiation of the class via the constructor and uses the method ->send() to send …
Read Article →iTunes keeps maximizing!
Oh my goodness, this can be an annoying issue with iTunes.
The problem is: iTunes will restore itself or maximize itself all the time every 20 or so …
Read Article →Replace newline break in Excel
Ever needed to find & replace the newline character in a large excel document?
This comes up when you’ve imported data from a CSV or …
Read Article →PHPExcel Class Usage
I just finished adding an export xls (excel) export feature to a web application.
I used the PHPExcel Class from CodePlex, its really great to work …
Read Article →unexpected T_IF
Getting “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IF” in PHP?
Check if the preceding line ends with a ;
This is one of the most common PHP …
Read Article →Worst Websites of All Time
http://www.theworstwebsite.com/ – beware, alert boxes coming!
Read Article →Set line leading / line spacing in flash actionscript 2
This is how to add text leading using Actionscript 2 for Flash.
var txtFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
txtFormat.leading = 5; // change this to …