Posts in the category “Programming”
flastmod
Ever hear of the flastmod include? Me neither. Here’s what it does. You can use it just like a #include directive server-side include, except instead of including a file, it returns the last modified timestamp of the file you request. If you’re using SSI in your site, add: <!– #flastmod file=”index.shtml” –> to any parsed
CGI
Here’s a very handy tutorial on CGI Programming.
Code Search
The DevX Source Code Library is a great resource for developers. Anybody out there know how to generate a UPS tracking number / shipment via XML?
Notepad
It really drives me nuts that you can’t delete Notepad.exe in Windows 2000. Oh, you can, but only if you really muck around with your files. Here is a tutorial on getting rid of the pesky application. Note that you must delete the notepad.ex_ file from your I386 directory before you try to delete the
AutoText 2
Well I already made a bunch of changes to AutoText. Thank you so much, Leia, for beta-testing! Now there are four text boxes. AutoText will post the text in the selected text box to the open app. That way you can save several juicy bits of text for auto-posting. Please note that if you’re using
AutoText
I’m always writing little programs to make my life easier. One of the handiest I’ve created is called AutoText. This small (only 32K!) app sits in your system tray and, when you double-click it, sends a text string to whichever application has the focus. There’s no documentation or help; it’s pretty simple. Right-click the icon
Read. Learn.
I found this excellent essay about writing computer code at evhead. The author makes several very good points about reading and writing in a programming language. I feel a little bit better about my own programming after reading it. When I dusted off PoolPlayer (my football pool manager app) last month I was tempted to
Test
This is a test to see what will happen to the category icon if I add an entry without selecting a category … Ah. What happened was this: The <MTCategory> tag was not there, so when it tried to load the .gif associated with that category (the uncategory) it looked for a file name simply
Screen Shots
There are quite a few office pool manager applications on the net. I looked at all of them at one point and none of them were really what I needed. Now – haha! – I don’t have an office, but I’m still working on the program. One of the major things I need to do