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3Doodler: 3D Printing Pen
A recently funded Kickstarter project by the name of 3Doodler is boasting its capabilities as the world’s first 3D-printing pen, and based off of its video introduction, I have no reason to doubt...
View ArticleBiggest Operational Hexapod Unveiled
Seemingly straight out of a sci-fi movie, the world’s largest fully operational hexapod at 9.2 feet tall and 2 tons has been built. Constructed by Matt Denton of Micromagic Systems, one of the...
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Add Global Content to WordPress
A recent project had me looking for a way to add global content that was easy for the client to edit and add to themselves. I ran across a great plugin that does just this: Global Content Blocks. With...
View ArticleOffice 365, enable/disable the junk email filtering for all users within your...
Found one of our employees junk filtering wasn’t working and had to open up a ticket with the Microsoft Office 365 support team (great customer service btw), and they helped me figure out where the...
View ArticleInput Field Placeholders for all browsers with HTML5 and jQuery
HTML5 gave us the long-awaited feature of adding watermark text to form input and textarea fields. If you haven’t tried it yet, here is the simple code: <input type="text" placeholder="Your...
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htaccesstools.com, a great source for all your htaccess needs
http://www.htaccesstools.com/ Wanted to share one of the websites I end up using a lot due to my inability to remember every htaccess command from memory. here’s a list of the commands documented...
View ArticleControl the Order of Custom Post Types in WordPress
By default, WordPress orders custom posts by date. This is not very desirable if you are not using them as normal blog posts and want to order the admin page by title, menu order, etc. You can change...
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JSCompress.com – An online Javascript compression tool
This site has been in my toolbox for quite a while now and still comes in handy when I can’t automate the compression of JS files. You can either copy and paste the JS or upload the whole file and...
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AVG Rescue CD – A bootable CD with Antivirus to clean up your infected machine
Being a techie, I get called upon by family members to fix their computers all the time. Today I was called in to clean up this machine that has a nasty virus, and it won’t let me even boot into safe...
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Word frequency counter for the web
Had the need for a word frequency counter a couple of weeks ago for a client of ours to see what words were the most popular for a filter we wanted to implement. I was surprised how many of these...
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Countdown.js – An awesome JQuery plugin for showing time difference
I had the need for a counter javascript plugin for a client’s site that would show how much time was left for a sale. Searching the internet lead me to http://countdownjs.org/ The best way to see...
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What I’ve Worked On So Far As A Summer Android Intern
I started working at Local Wisdom on May 20, 2013. At the time of writing this post, I have worked here for a little more than two months now. In that time, I have put all of my focus on recreating...
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How to stop or remove a Jquery Delay if you need to interrupt the process
While working on Wineflash.com, I found the need to remove a jquery delay we have in place for their newsletter sign up modal. When you first come to the site, they have a newsletter signup modal...
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How to search a CLOB column in Oracle and other LOB functions available
Not sure why I haven’t had the need for this before considering how much Oracle SQL I’ve written in the last few years, but here it is: select * from TABLE where...
View ArticleSingleton pattern in Objective-C (iOS)
The singleton pattern is very powerful when developing mobile apps. In fact, many of Apple’s iOS classes follow this pattern such as the UIApplication and UIScreen classes. Using singletons allows you...
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How to make AJAX and $.getJSON() calls synchronously with async: false
Once again stackoverflow.com comes to the rescue! Was working wineflash.com and I needed to build out a region dropdown list dynamically, but the list has countries and sub-regions in it. The...
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Resource Hero is our new Excel-like resource allocation tool on Salesforce.com
This week we officially launch Resource Hero, a lightweight Salesforce.com app that allows companies to easily forecast over and under allocation for production teams. “Basically, it’s a load balancer...
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Web-Safe fonts and FREE Web fonts
Web-safe fonts are present on most computer systems and are used on websites so that the content is displayed as closely as possible to the intentions of the designer. If a font is not present on a...
View ArticleOptimize the use of a GUID or UUID as a primary key or index in MySQL
I recently had an internal PHP/MySQL project where I wanted to use a GUID as the primary key, but at the same time keep it as fast as possible too look up data based on that GUID. From my research on...
View ArticleMedia Query Support for IE8
As a developer, one of my biggest headaches is Internet Explorer. Coding for earlier versions of IE typically involves adding extra CSS that targets IE8 and below. Internet Explorer 9 and 10 are huge...
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