Hidden Yahoo IM emoticons

It's amazing to me how a combination of a few characters can conjure up an image to build an emoticon.  It's like looking at constellations in the sky.  IMO, I find this a much more creative exercise than the shorthand behind SMS.  Oh well, enough of that.  Here's a link to some additional emoticons available in Yahoo IM.

Enjoy.

Posted at 04:42PM Apr 03, 2008 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[1]

Animator vs Animation by Alan Becker

I don't know Alan, but hats off to him.  This is great.



Animator vs. Animation by *alanbecker on deviantART

Posted at 01:13PM Feb 14, 2008 by Robert Eister in WebFun  |  Comments[0]

Microsoft's version of the iPod package...

Spot on!  Find the orignal link here

Posted at 01:37PM Jan 07, 2008 by Robert Eister in WebFun  |  Comments[0]

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

i know, i know... this one is all everyone is talking about.

Posted at 06:12PM Mar 16, 2007 by Robert Eister in WebFun  |  Comments[0]

Adding Yahoo IM presence icon to Roller (or any web page)

i must be pretty bad at googling, cause i never did find the solution using google alone.  i finally had to look at another site that implemented this feature to figure things out. [Read More]

Posted at 12:00AM Mar 16, 2007 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[1]

Merging bookmark toolbar folders in Firefox

i had 2 issues to work through when merging personal bookmarks toolbar folders in Firefox.

Posted at 10:56PM Mar 15, 2007 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[0]

Fun with Linux (i think)

Yeah, yeah, i'm not a Linux pusher or anything.  However i do a lot of my work on either Linux or Solaris, so the little comments about updating rpm's, checking dependencies and what not make my laugh.  Besides, when it's done playing i kind like the music playing in the background.

Posted at 12:00AM Mar 15, 2007 by Robert Eister in WebFun  |  Comments[0]

Serving database driven pages using Clarify ClearExpress

The customer wanted to enable the user's to be able to control the content on their web pages.  With ClearExpress, the pages are static.  What to do?  What to do?  Hmmm

Posted at 06:54PM Mar 13, 2007 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[1]

Allowing Clarify ClearExpress to authenticate against database

My customer wanted to allow their customers to create a profile and immediately get access to their cases.  Baseline ClearExpress doesn't do this.  Here's how we got around that problem.

Posted at 12:00AM Mar 12, 2007 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[2]

Allowing file upload using Clarify ClearExpress

The old ClearExpress product didn't allow for adding attachments to cases.  This is a simple customization utilizing PERL to make this happen.

Posted at 01:10PM Mar 09, 2007 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[0]

CSS text-transform

Displaying text via text-transform is great, but submitting data expecting the same transformation, na-da.

Posted at 12:00AM Mar 09, 2007 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[0]

Purging a large set of data from Clarify

Need to purge a large data set from Clarify and want to keep Clarify running.  If you are running Oracle, you can try this approach...

Posted at 11:48AM Mar 07, 2007 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[0]

Tomcat 5.5.20 bites me (in the butt) again

This time it's a problem with loading jndi resources.

Posted at 11:48AM Mar 06, 2007 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[0]

Sony Over Promises and Under Delivers again

Sony's efforts to build brand loyalty are underwhelming at best and generally a waste time.

Posted at 06:04PM Mar 02, 2007 by Robert Eister in Opinions  |  Comments[0]

IM client in Clarify

How to build a poor man's Instant Messaging client in Clarify

Posted at 12:00AM Mar 02, 2007 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[0]