Posts in the category “technology”

(Q) How do I calculate total number of working days between two dates?

(A) Use this function.

Does anybody know of any way to have IIS automatically restart itself every few hours? Do tell.

PHP / DAO

Code 10x More Efficiently Using Data Access Objects and PHP …

Rotating Ad Banner

Great tutorial for beginners: Rotating Banner Ads using a Database

Title Tags Missing

Here’s an interesting development: For some reason my browser is no longer displaying title tags for anchors! I have no idea how this happened. Has anyone else noticed this? Title tags for hrefs do not appear regardless of the site I am viewing. This is very strange.

Nutshell

If you haven’t installed the Nutshell Toolbar yet, do it today. This is one of the most useful things on my computer and I use it probably fifty times each day. (I linked to it many, many months ago. I just gave it to a friend today and thought I should hand out some extra

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Cool Clothes

In a move wireless industry analysts say will infringe on customers’ privacy, clothing designer Benetton plans to weave radio frequency ID chips into its garments to track its clothes worldwide. link via technoerotica

Scrolling Ticker Headline

After hours and hours of googling, I finally found the only javascript horizontal text scroller that doesn’t suck. If anyone knows of a better one, please let me know. While we all wait I’ll be re-coding this to accept input from an external database and building an ASP front-end for editing it …

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bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.