What if you want to generate reasonably short alphanumeric user activation codes without having to store anything in a DB (so in this case generating random user codes won’t do) ? Why would someone need this? Think about an application where you want to print activation cards and sell them to your customers. The customer [...]

When you are developing an app or a website for your client, it is pretty common to setup a sandbox environment where your client can test and see the application while it is still in development. One thing I find useful is to display the last deployment date on the home page.
Here is a quick [...]

Hello everyone,
For the past few months this blog has been pretty much dead. I could give you tons of excuses as for why it has been so but that’s all they would be, mere excuses! And I assure you that you would not find any of them very convincing.
I received several comments recently telling me [...]