I recently moved from Lightbox 2 to Slimbox2, whilst it is a little outdated, Slimbox2 offers many advantages; jQuery language – no need for Prototype/Scriptaculous page doesn’t need to be loaded completely before being run has its own API Unfortunately, it is missing automatic image resizing, which I love. With the help of Example 9…

Requirements Recently, I needed an online RSVP system for a reception I was hosting, all the options out there didn’t meet my requirements; Customisable and able to self-host No need for tracking codes/numbers to be sent with invitation Able to RSVP additional guests Able to modify an existing RSVP Implementation As usual, I decided to…

I bought this USB Wireless Presenter for 12 USD from eBay as I needed to control the music and slideshow at a reception. It turned out to better than I expected, some of the reasons i purchased this was; Radio Frequency technology – no need to ‘point’ it at a receiver. 25m operating distance –…

Maintenance, what all landlords dread, even so, it needs to be done. Even before the house was tenanted, I needed to clean the mess the previous non-paying tenants left, my property manager LJ Hooker Belmont WA dropped me this email; I haven’t seen it since and your In-laws have.  However I believe some cleaning needs doing…

I thought I would share my experience with Property Manager LJ Hooker Belmont WA. I have a 3 bedroom, single bathroom property in Cloverdale WA that’s currently tenanted, initially my in-laws offered to manage the property and it was fine for 6 months with a lovely tenant. Then her contract expired and a new tenant…

I’ve rented a number of cars from a number of companies, Budget is the first one I have come across that has this policy. I rented a car on the 21st May on a 1750QAR monthly rate, returned it on the 2nd September. All other companies have worked out the remainder days (12 days in…

Here are two quick functions; The first getType takes in a path of a folder or file and returns the type. The second function getDate takes in a folder or path and returns the date modified. getDate references getType.

Here are some functions to convert a binary string, to a byte array, to a Base64 string and then back to a byte array and binary string. Run tester to see it in action, enjoy. Thanks to Tim Hastings for the Base64 functions.

Having recently traveled Egypt, I thought I would share my tips for being safe and not taken for a ride; Never accept the first offer, always bargain (unless it’s for a few Egyptian Pounds). Don’t be afraid to walk away, there are 80 million Egyptians, you will find another. If an Egyptian asks you to…

Decided to learn Photoshop VBScripting, don’t know why I didn’t do this sooner, I now have scripts to automatically generate my blog thumbnails (as below), and add little Google Maps markers on them (see here). A few constants to change in the script (edit with Notepad); RESIZEWIDTH – thumbnail width RESIZEHEIGHT – thumbnail height IGNOREVERTICAL…