I currently use my local credit union for all my banking needs. They have nearly everything I could possibly want but I’ve found them to be lacking in one regard. The credit union I use doesn’t have a “SWIFT” code. What’s a SWIFT code you ask. Well, it’s a number that allows banks of different nations to securely wire electronic funds to each other. If your bank doesn’t have a SWIFT code then you can say “goodbye” to quick and easy international wire transfers from your clients in far away lands and “hello” to long delays waiting for international mail and foreign checks to clear … Read More
Sometimes you need to edit an image for use in your WordPress blog but you might not need (or you might not have access to) a high-powered image editing application like Photoshop. Maybe you want to post a smaller version of an image you’ve already used in a previous post or maybe you want to “zoom in” to a specific area of an image to add emphasis. If that’s the case, you may find … Read More
If you comment on this site or any other blog site that uses the DoFollow plugin you’ll get a little extra something in return.
By default, WordPress uses the “nofollow” tag to tell search engines not to follow links posted in your blog comments. This was initially done to discourage spammers from littering your blog with spam links, but since spam filtering has improved it’s no longer necessary and it may actually hurt your blog. … Read More
A while ago, I wrote a Color Fading tutorial for ActionScript.org which provided nearly all the functions you’d ever want for fading colors. Did you notice that I said “nearly”? Well, today I’ve added yet another weapon to my color-fading code arsenal called “fadeHex”. The name probably won’t put fear in the hearts of fellow code warriors but it’s a powerful tool none the less. In essence, it lets you specify two colors, then creates a color gradient from the first color to the second and lets you choose a color at any point on that gradient. … Read More
I’ve become fairly familiar with the Flash Date object and thought I’d share some handy code showing how to append the proper suffix to a date or any other number. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, a “number suffix” or “ordinal indicator” is the string of letters that follows a number to help make it more human readable. For example the number suffix “nd” makes “May 2nd, 2007” a little easier to read than “May 2, 2007”.
Here’s the code I wrote to handle all my numeric and date suffix needs: … Read More
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