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For years, I've run into the same problem: I link to an online fitness calculator, and after a few years, the link stops working. I update it, but eventually, it breaks again, and the cycle repeats....
Read more →Eventually, I'll get around to putting out some new blogs. In the meantime, here are a few web projects I've been tinkering with. I added PaperCSS to my portal page. I like these style sheet...
Read more →In my last post, I mentioned my portal site MichaelAllenSmith.com needed to be rewritten because it was an ugly version of my GitPage. I completed that task yesterday and did a few changes this...
Read more →I have been a customer and user of Meetup.com going back to my San Diego days in the early 2000s. When I got to Seattle in 2007, I became a more active member. Most of my activity has been as an...
Read more →This was originally written in May 2002. It was updated in February 2007, April 2014 and January 2017. Some of you are probably aware of spiders. They are these little programs that surf the internet...
Read more →My coffee site, INeedCoffee, needed a better search engine. I had thrown some basic SQL together when the site was launched back in 1999. It did an OK job when the site didn’t have much content. Over...
Read more →Below is a snippet of code showing how to retrieve the page source of a web page. This code will return the HTML source from the home page on this site. It will then load that HTML into the...
Read more →Here is a standard if ... then statement in Cfollowed by a single line example. Using a single line if statement will reduce the number of lines of code. if (dayOfTheWeek == "Tuesday") { ...
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