Stripe Bundle for Laravel
I’ve been learning the ins and outs of Laravel for a little over a week. Last night I decided I should create a quick bundle. I created a simple API bundle for Stripe because I will need it for a …
Category: Programming
Regex Flickr Parser
Today’s Regex is used to parse a string for Flickr links and extract the Photo_ID. Once we have the Photo_ID we’re able to create a standard embed code from nearly any Flickr URL. Supported Links: The following Regex supports these …
Regex Vimeo Parser
Today’s Regex is used to parse a string for Vimeo links and extract the Video_ID. Once we have the Video_ID we’re able to create a standard embed code from Vimeo links. Supported Links: The following Regex supports these Vimeo links …
Regex YouTube Parser
Over the next several days I’m going to post a series of Regex strings. These Regex strings can be used to parse input for different links. I’m using PHP in my examples (you may need to tweak the Regex to …
JQuery DataTable Birthday Sort
I’m working on a project that uses DataTables a JQuery plug-in that turns ordinary table into dynamic tables. One of the columns includes a list of birthdays. We didn’t want the standard date sorting. We wanted the birthdays to sort …
Silverlight Binding Linear Order
I stumbled across this Silverlight “feature” today. Silverlight’s binding works in a linear order. 1 <ComboBox SelectedValue="{Binding SelectedHour, Mode=TwoWay}" ItemsSource="{Binding Hours}" /><ComboBox SelectedValue="{Binding SelectedHour, Mode=TwoWay}" ItemsSource="{Binding Hours}" /> In the above code, selected value isn’t being set on page load. …
PHP Date in Human Readable Format
I’m working on a PHP project that requires human readable, relative date formatting. Below is the PHP function I’m using. The function handles past and future dates. Sample Future Output : 30 seconds to go 1 minute to go 5 …
Super Simple WCF Caching
The other day I had an interesting problem at work. My new project had a web service call that was pulling metadata off an MS SQL cube. When I started to the the project the call had 6 nested loops …
Hide Multiple Upload link in SharePoint 2010
I had a request to hide the multiple file upload links in SharePoint 2010. After an hour or two of searching for a configuration setting, I got tired and did a simple CSS hack. Granted this doesn’t disable the functionality …
Dealing with Silverlight InitParms
I’ve found the best way access initParams throughout your Silverlight Application is to put them in a global static dictionary. This is how I setup my initParms dictionary. First we need to set an initParams in our ASPX Page: 1 …