Have you have every needed to calculate the date of the next invoice for a customer given their frequency of payment (e.g. monthly or yearly), the day of the month the first invoice was sent out (e.g. 29th, 30th, etc…), and the date of their last invoice? This can be a little complicated. For example, [...]
I just wanted to invite everyone to go over to 4GuysFromRolla and read my latest article entitled, “Personalizing RSS Feeds with ASP .NET 2.0“.
Want to get replace those “smart quotes” that MS Word uses in your .NET code? This will do it: VB .NET Dim newstr As String newstr = oldstr.Replace(Chr(147), “& quot;”) ‘ take out extra space b/w & and quot; newstr = newstr.Replace(Chr(148), “& quot;”) ‘ take out extra space b/w & and quot; C# string [...]
It has been my honor to have another article published on 4GuysFromRolla.com. Entitled “An Overview of Cryptographic Systems and Encrypting Database Data” and is the first of a two three part series. The first part (published today) gives an overview of what exactly is encryption, what are its properties, how can it be used, and [...]
Jiang told me about this one and thought I would share it. It’s called Meebo and with it you can IM on all the popular instant messaging services though an AJAX-ladan web page!
Finally got a Wii after wanting one for a while, and is it worth every stinking penny. Bian, Jiang and I, went half and half on one and he purchased Zelda: The Twilight Princess (which is fantastic).¬† The last gaming console I bought was the Turbo Graphix 16/Turbo Express! So, I’ve been away from the [...]
Firebug has to be one of the best Firefox add-ons for web developer’s I’ve seen in a very long time. See HTTP headers, edit CSS on-the-fly, see network activity (i.e. see what is taking the most time to download), debug Javascript, editHTML, and on and on. Check it out for yourself by following the link [...]
Microsoft’s AJAX Framework, formaly code-named “Atlas” has now come out of Beta status and is now available in version 1.0. Now known as ASP .NET AJAX; it can be downloaded here, and there are some good tutorial videos on the ASP .Net site as well.
OpenID provides a way in which you can log into multiple site, without having to create a seperate account on each one. It uses a decentralized achitectual model, and you can even setup your own OpenID server or even use your own domain name as part of your login. Pretty neat stuff. I hope this [...]
Three words: “I want one!” Oh yeah, I want this too.