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Javascript Date: isLeapYear and getLastDayOfMonth

Michiel — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:41:46 +0000

I recently had to do quite a bit with dates in Javascript, most of which had to do with validating dates a user inserted/selected. Since we don’t use any libraries like jQuery or Prototype, I had to come up with a solution my self. (Which I think is a great motivation not to use libraries [...]

How I Got Started in ColdFusion

Michiel — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:13:29 +0000

A couple of days ago, Steve Bryant suggested that today would be “How I Got Started in ColdFusion day”. He claims every story he heard so far is interesting, so why not share mine? Here goes. It was late 2005 when I applied for a job of Programmer at a company called Netbasics. Back then [...]

Unescape HTML entities in Oracle

Michiel — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:08:23 +0000

If you’re creating a comma-seperated list of values which get grouped, and you’re using the built-in XML functionality to do it, you’re in for an unpleasant surprise. This happened to me, although I do believe I should have foreseen this. The problem is that when you dynamically create XML, special characters in Textnodes get escaped – [...]

MD5 function in Oracle

Michiel — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:26:28 +0000

Recently I was struggling to find a function to get MD5 to work in Oracle, like the MD5() function in MySQL. After some searching I found out that there is no direct way to calculate an MD5 checksum in Oracle. Therefore I created the function below. CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION USERINFO.md5hash (str IN VARCHAR2) RETURN [...]

Announcing: What’s my Wheaton?

Michiel — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:43:32 +0000

I'm happy to announce a new project, called "What's my Wheaton?", of which the first version will be released very soon! The past couple of days I've been working late to finalize functionality and test every bit of it, new project, called "What's my Wheaton?". The essence of the project is to find out what your Wheaton score is.

DateTime in PHP

Michiel — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:58:31 +0000

Not so long ago, PHP introduced a new DateTime object. This object makes it easier to calculate a date and (re)format it, or make calculations with it. Apart from that, one might say it’s a lot cleaner, code-wise (if you’re an object-oriented type of programmer, like myself). The object is supported by a second object, [...]

Select sound output device in AIR

Michiel — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:20:40 +0000

When working with Sound and Microphone in Adobe’s AIR, one can come across a limitation regarding the Sound output device. In numerous desktop applications it’s possible to select which output device to use for audio. In both AIR and AIR2 this isn’t possible. So to have it implemented, I created it as an idea in the [...]

iPhone 4 wallpapers

Michiel — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:42:18 +0000

Using Google’s renewed fantastic Image Search, I made a quicklink to a (seemingly) never ending list of wallpapers for use with the iPhone 4. Thought I’d share it for people like me, always searching for some slick pictures on their smartphone desktop. Cheers!

Connect HDX-1000 using USB slave to Windows 7

Michiel — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:17:47 +0000

One of the nastiest things about upgrading your OS is probably driver support. A videocard or other device that you’ve gotten so used to, that you can’t get to work when updating your OS. This same problem is here when upgrading to Windows 7 when connecting the HDX-1000 to your PC using the USB slave [...]

Jilster: create your own magazine

Michiel — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:18:59 +0000

Yesterday was quite a joyful day. Jilster, a project we’ve been working on for the past months, was officially launched. Jilster is an online tool with which you can create your very own magazine and was built using Adobe’s ColdFusion and Flex, running on a MySQL database. Curious? Check www.jilster.nl (it’s all Dutch).