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No, this post will make no mention of bottle tokes.
For the remaining freelance gig in my spare time pipeline (which hopefully is winding down), an ecommerce site, I had to create simple user management system. Obviously, I’m not going to store users’ passwords as plain text in the database, but rather as a hash [...]

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The onChange event for HTML form elements is fired when the value of that element actually changes in Firefox/Seamonkey, Opera, Safari and any other other modern Web browser. It just makes sense. Yet for some lame reason with Internet Explorer, onChange is only fired once the focus on said form element is lost, [...]

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Today’s Daily WTF post was one of their funny screenshot articles and one of them struck me as being quite familiar:

Die-hard readers of my blog may be thinking that based on the Diebold logo in the picture, that I’m reminded of one of my rants against slow Diebold ABMs. It’s not. That “Object [...]

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Note to self:
If you’ve created a page that is correct from a business logic point-of-view, but may not make Visual Studio’s visual designer happy, don’t open the file in the visual designer. The visual designer wants to correct your “shoddy” HTML. The visual designer thinks that it knows you. It doesn’t. [...]

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Last summer, I posted about a cool open-source project from the National Research Council of Canada, known as Voice Code, that allows developers to code by talking. From the demos that I’ve watched, VoiceCode performs very well, and shows promise. However, Windows Vista includes speech recognition functionality, and doesn’t appear to be on [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, I rebuilt our desktop computer; the ol’ format and reinstall everything shuffle. I like to do it a couple of times a year; usually coinciding with when my annual anti virus subscription expires. It is, however, dreadfully boring downloading and reinstalling the latest versions of the software that [...]

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Often, I need to do some quick arithmetic involving multiple operations and don’t have a good calculator handy. There’s a calculator application on my cell phone, but I’m an atrociously slow cell phone typer. Most simple calculator apps, like calc.exe in Windows, are fine for single operations like 2+2 or 67 * 1.14, [...]

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At work, I’m near completion of an ASP ecommerce project. Up to this point in my life, I had never coded with anything other than Perl or PHP running on Apache when working on web-based projects that required dynamically generated content. So this project stole my ASP-on-IIS virginity; this is a good thing.
Server.Transfer() is [...]

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eWeek’s article about 10 Programming Languages You Should Learn Right Now, posts like this about the 5 languages that matter, and 5 Easy Ways to be a Better Developer appear to be this week’s trend. Everybody loves a good list; see my list of favourite Firefox extensions in my previous post
When it [...]

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Would you believe that nobody outside of work wished me a happy Programmer’s Day yesterday? Of course, I work for a company that’s chock full of programmers so there were plenty of well wishes to go around, but c’mon, people. It’s just one day out of the whole year. Is that too [...]

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Upon reviewing my web server’s logs, a lot of people stumble upon this website o’ mine by submitting queries for “ubuntu phpmyadmin” to search engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN. I’ll assume that it’s because installing PHPMyAdmin on a fresh Ubuntu Linux install isn’t all that straightforward. Everybody lands on this post from [...]

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Filed under “Ain’t It Cool?”.
The NRC has released an open-source application, called VoiceCode, that allows software developers to code with their voices instead of their hands. Sure there are plenty of consumer applications in existence, such as Dragon Naturally Speaking, that allows people to use their computers and enter text by speech. VoiceCode, on [...]

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