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  • New Web Coordinator

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    jlencion

    We are very excited to announce that we have recently added a brand new Web Coordinator to our team. His name is Jerry Nowell and we are anxious to see what the future holds for us. Jerry previously served as the E-Commerce Coordinator for the Department of Tourism and State Development in Pierre, South Dakota.…

  • CF docs lookup

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    jlencion

    If you have never used it, you’ll be sorry that you didn’t know about it sooner. There is a brilliant tool for looking up anything in the ColdFusion documentation. It’s called CFDocs.org and it’s a definite time-saver. How it works: you set a cookie on your computer that tells CFDocs.org what version of ColdFusion you…

  • Southwest Hall Kills Wireless

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    doachs

    Not sure what it is yet, but something about the construction of the new Southwest Hall causes the building to totally block all Wi-Fi signals. Ethan and I were over there today to check it out for our self. We went up to the top floor where we could easily see the powerfull tropos wireless…

  • Firefox extensions that I use

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    jlencion

    I am about to switch to a new machine and am working on consolidating all of my data that I need to move. So I got to thinking that it would be nice to have a list of all the Firefox extensions that I use to help me with the switch. Then I was thinking…

  • HTML tag regular expression

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    rrud

    We found this regular expression online at haacked.com for finding html tags in a string. I used this in the new Gustavus eCard program that I have been working on (stay tuned) as a way to get the text of captions which contain hyperlinks. This regular expression was written by Phil Haack. </?w+(((s|n)+w+((s|n)*=(s|n)*(?:”.*?”|’.*?’|[^'”>s]+))?)+(s|n)*|(s|n)*)/?> This expression…

  • Regular expression for e-mail

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    jlencion

    Regular expressions can be very useful and efficient if used properly. For a while now in some of our applications we have been using the following regular expression to check e-mail addresses for proper formatting. ^[_a-z0-9-]+(.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(.[a-z0-9-]+)*.(([a-z]{2,3})|(aero|coop|info|museum|name))$ This will ensure that the user has entered a properly formatted e-mail address such as user@domain.com.

  • Whoa

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    doachs

    Wow, got a nice little surprise from my home ISP today. Apparently Hickorytech has bumped up their speeds by 300% and kept their prices the same. So I was getting 2Mb down and 384k up. Now they say I am getting 6Mb down and 864k up. Cool. So far all the speed tests show it…

  • No Google for Paul

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    doachs

    For some reason, Paul Hanson is still not having any luck with Google. Google has visited his site, but if you try to search for it, you can’t find it. And what is even funnier is that most of the time when you search for it, the best link is this site 🙂 Anyway, so…

  • Server Room Upgrade

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    doachs

    Well, we finally did it. It probably should have been done years ago, but we finally made the move. We installed 10 nice new 7′ x 19″ racks in the server room and last Thursday night we moved the remaining critical systems into those new racks. We started shutting everything down at about 5:00pm and…

  • Helping another blogger

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    doachs

    My friend Paul needs some help. His page is not being indexed by google even though he has submitted his url to them. So I thought I would help him out. He has a very nice looking blog over here: http://bike.smarp.us/ So if you are into cycling and are in the southern Minnesota area, you…