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Correspondence Database

June 28, 2010 benf101 0

Edit: RecordSetGo is being redeveloped to look a little bit more up-to-date.  The back-end (database) will remain as-is and therefore all data will continue to exist, but the front end with which the user will interact will be changing.  As a lone-developer I cannot estimate the time of completion. Record […]

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The New Melanin Agenda

June 28, 2010 0

People have a green agenda. It makes no sense to any thinking human being. Follow me here… We must “save trees”. Don\’t print emails, go paperless, and so on. Then we have to stop exhaling because carbon dioxide destroys the planet. But carbon dioxide feeds trees which in turn generate […]

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Google Voice Quality

June 28, 2010 benf101 0

Google voice is still my second choice. When I used it a few days ago to call my wife for a second, she kept saying “huh?”, “what?”, “I can’t hear you”. After saying it three times, she got it. Then she told me that I sounded terrible. There may not […]

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Google Voice Now Open to Everyone in the US

June 25, 2010 benf101 0

Source: PC World Google’s telephony management application Google Voice is now open to all U.S. residents, as the company on Tuesday removed the requirement for prospective users to receive an invitation in order to sign up for the service. Google Voice Now Open to Everyone in the US Already, there […]

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Droid ConnectBot – Unix SSH on the go!

June 24, 2010 benf101 0

Connect Bot I probably don’t need to sell any develpers on the advantages of being able to access your server while on the go. Once in a while you just have to. Programs like Astro, AndroZip, and ES File Explorer are ok for some things but what if you have […]

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Driving in Cincinnati

June 23, 2010 benf101 0

Welcome to Cincinnati, where drivers literally move in front of you while you are on a clear path. They have no reason to move other than they like the appearance of the lane you are in. I have honked at people before to have them move out of the way. […]

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PHP Ternary Operator – The "IF-Else" Shortcut

June 22, 2010 benf101 0

A ternary operator is a quick shortcut to bypass the multi-line if-else statement. It is sufficient when simple setting a value of a variable based on a condition. It looks like this: [php] //     $variable == 10 ? $x = true : $x = false; // [/php] That is saying […]

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PHP explode and trim the results?

June 22, 2010 benf101 3

php.net – where I posted this Overview This is something that I used to use on this site before I went to WordPress. If you checked “view source” and looked at the meta keywords, you would notice a comma separated string. When programming, you may want to take a comma […]

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JavaScript stripslashes

June 19, 2010 benf101 0

Sometimes you have to add slashes to javascript text. PHP has it built in, javascript does not. Here is the code to put into your javascript to get the same functionality: function addslashes(str) {      str=str.replace(/\\\\/g,’\\\\\\\\’);      str=str.replace(/\\’/g,’\\\\\\”);      str=str.replace(/\\”/g,’\\\\”‘);      str=str.replace(/\\0/g,’\\\\0’);      return str; } function stripslashes(str) {      […]