Back in February, someone broke into our house while we were at work (paying for all of the stuff they were stealing!). They kicked the door in and made off with a ton of stuff. They ripped flat screen TVs off of the wall mounts, took a Playstation 3, an XBOX 360, a PSP, tons of games and accessories, and two Macbooks.
One of the laptops was... Full Entry »
Recently, I had a need to convert text from UTF08 to iso-8859-1. Actually, the need was to come up with a more efficient way of doing so. I'll spare you the why, when and where and get right to the how.
After digging into the java.nio.charset.Charset, this is what I came up with the following function. (commented for your viewing... Full Entry »
As you can see, Acoderslife.com has undergone a complete overhaul. The launch of the new site has rendered a number of old links and images useless.
Since I've launched the new site, to my surprise, I have had 3 requests for the old BHCaptcha documentation. So I've decided to put up a downloads section to make such things available once again.... Full Entry »
This is just about to drive me crazy. I like the random header image at the top of this site but something with the way I'm doing it is causing a weird bug. Occasionally, when you load the page, you may notice that the image doesn't change. Since the images are random, it could, of course, be that the same image just happened to come up twice.... Full Entry »
So I had this CF web service for single sign-on authentication; it had one required parameter and everything was well with the world.
Then came the change request to add three new non-required parameters. Some of you are saying, "Oh, I know where THIS is going.". If so, then... WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!?! :-)
So I added these three new... Full Entry »
When I woke up this morning I found a PayPal phishing scam in my email. Now, of course I get these on a daily basis just like the rest of the world but I usually don’t see them because they go straight to my junk folder. This particular email, however, had a special aura about it because it was sitting right in my precious inbox. So being the... Full Entry »
CFEclispe 1.2 has been released! If you have not yet ventured from your sheltered life of Dreamweaver development, you obviously don’t know what you’re missing. Ok, so maybe you do know you would be missing a design view if you switched but from my extensive experience with Dreamweaver’s design view, it’s not a feature that would be missed any... Full Entry »
