ORIGINAL PROBLEM I spent hours tonight struggling with this Google Apps script I wrote to serve as custom functions or advanced macros. I adapted it from this StackOverflow post. The main issue I ran into was comparing dates. Here is my research path, and hopefully, some indicator as to why it took so long: STEPS […]
I wrote this jQuery fiddle in about 5 minutes. It is really simple, but amazingly powerful at the same time. The purpose of this is to instantly style paragraph tags. Here are the style parameters: Background color: Manila (light beige-ish/yellow) Border color: Orange Drop-shadow: Yes Rounded-rectangle: Yes I want to make the code easily available
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Heroku | Pricing. NOTE: I dig this site because of it being a real “concept art” theme-type creating. Well designed, well crafted — associating different “characters” or “archetype” levels is brilliant — should strike a chord with those familiar with video games, or any sport or activity in which you progress through various levels (like
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Greetings Friends, I have recently completed a move to a new state and consequently my keeping up with your comments and questions has suffered, and for that I apologize. I have quick-posted interesting articles as I found them, but have found little energy to write many original posts of my own. Still not feeling up
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07/07/12 It has been a primary goal of mine for several years to write a Windows program, in either DOS or Perl, to automate changing the folder icon in a batch of subdirectories. It is quite tedious to do this process manually, and when I am trying to customize folder icons this process can eat
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Free CSS Image Bullets: Marijuana Weed Leaf with Drop Shadow Why I’m Publishing These Images For Everyone to Use: I created these marijuana/weed/hemp/ganja css image bullets yesterday. It took about 30 minutes to locate and try various leaf images and select a final one, and the work itself took about 1.5 hours to design and
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Facebook Obsoletes Less Than Year-Old Facebook Application Development For Dummies Book! 2012.04.17 Just a quick rant here. In what must be some kind of record, Facebook has pretty much made obsolete the book Facebook Application Development For Dummies (Wiley, by Jesse Stay), which I purchased about 7 months ago (August 2011 — only 3 months
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PROBLEM: I have recently determined through trial and error and process of elimination that Zemanta is responsible for adding extraneous HTML comments to my pre-formatted (with “pre” tags) PHP code that I have placed between “sourcecode” tags to activate WordPress.com’s built in programming code syntax highlighting. Here is a screenshot (fig 1.) that demonstrates the
Greetings folks. Tonight I’m studying on how to create a PHP Object-Oriented MySQL database connection class. This will be reusable and able to be implemented in any database driven web application built with PHP & MySQL. It uses the ActiveRecord and Singleton design patterns. I’m currently following this YouTube tutorial: Using OOP PHP to select,
Mozilla unveiled a new privacy add-on called Collusion last Wednesday (February 29). Developed by Mozilla’s in-house programmers, and backed by the Ford Foundation, Collusion enables you to se a visual relationship map of all the advertisers and entities who are tracking your online activity, in real-time. Gary Kovacs, (CEO of Mozilla), had this to say
