Eric Hepperle

Eric loves to write code, play guitar, and help businesses solve challenges with code and design.

How To Make Ten Million Dollars In Gold With Photoshop!

2012.02.12 Hey guys.  Welcome back!  Tonight I just want to real quickly talk about a cool tutorial I found on YouTube today.  I was searching for a “Gold Text” effect Photoshop Tutorial when I came across this one from IceflowStudios: Photoshop: GOLD Bling! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87CGbLRpHoo One thing I liked about it from the git-go was he […]

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Excel 2003 – Change Cell Color Without VBA, Using Conditional Formatting.

2012.02.10 (NOTE: This article is currently just a stub … ) So, this is what I was up to tonight.  I researched and learned the following techniques: Excel data validation list from named range in another worksheet Build drop-down menu in Excel How to delete duplicate rows using in-place filtering Keyboard shortcut for entering and opening

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Lynda.com PHP MySQL WAMP Project: Widget Corp – Progress Update – 2012.02.07

Hello folks.  I’ve been doing a Lynda.com tutorial called PHP With MySQL Essential Training.  I’ve actually been doing aboutg 2-8 hours per week of the multiple, sequential lessons that are involved in this excellent hands-on tutorial for about a month now. At this point, I have completed all the basic PHP and MySQL material, and

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How Long Does It Really Take To Create and Finish A New Blog Post?

01/22/12 I don’t  know about everyone else, but it takes me either all day or all week.  For instance, I have a journal-type post for one of my blogs (rawlifewizard)that was pre-rough-drafted/conceptualized (I’m not really sure what the academic term is for this) on Jan 15th (exactly a week ago).  But, because I work a

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Testing WordPress’s Code Syntax Highlighting

(12/04/11) TEST 1: This example introduces a bit of test code we are calling ‘CODE SNIPPET A’. It uses the ‘sourcecode’ tag and has no language attributes or parameters. Code Snippet A [sourcecode] <form id="form1"> <div> <input id="btnShowMessage" type="button" value="show message" /> <div id="divMessage" style="background-color: yellow;">THIS IS THE MESSAGE</div> </div> </form> [/sourcecode] NOTE: When you

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Is DropBox a good alternative for a WordPress CDN (image hosting site)?

Image via CrunchBase Is DropBox a good alternative for a WordPress CDN (image hosting site)? 11/15/11 10:06 PM So, tonight I’m seeking a better FREE solution for hosting my images for blogging purposes.  Up until now I have always used Photobucket, but recently I have experienced some issues with some of my images not showing

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In Praise Of Jeff Duntemann … An Ode To Fun, Easy-To-Read Programming Books

02/19/11 Around 1998 I was working as an Electronics Engineer at a local slaughterhouse called IBP (now owned by Tyson Chicken) and it was there in the meager collection of reference books available that I discovered the book “Assembly Language Step-By-Step“, by Jeff Duntemann.  I was blown away.  Though it has been over 10 years

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