Toggling UI elements is a chore that nobody enjoys. Back when your web apps were primarily jQuery or raw JavaScript you would need to wire up an event handler, catch the click event, determine the current visibility state and switch it. A fairly small job, but still an annoying one when you have a page Read More
It’s slightly frustrating looking through your users table and seeing a bunch of accounts that signed up but never confirmed, only existing in this limbo land where you can’t quite count them as a conversion and they seem to have dropped off the face of the earth. This rake task will look through your users Read More
Recently I found myself needing to find a way to determine what open and listening ports along with their associated running processes are currently active on a Windows machine using C#. Some extensive Googling returned pretty dismal results. Retrieving a list of open ports is simple. Retrieving a list of running processes is simple. A Read More
So, you’ve got a side project hosted with Heroku, you only have basic database requirements so the 10,000 row limited Postgres dev plan seems like a good choice and could possibly be a free alternative for a descent amount of time until you need to upgrade. Heck, at $35 a month per dyno, you need Read More
Setting up Google Analytics event tracking can be a pain sometimes. Often you may want to track a dozen or so clicks on a page that doesn’t make and post backs so you end up with a bunch of spaghetti JS, wiring up events and click handlers. It’s just messy. So I write this little Read More