Essential iPhone apps

OK, OK, I admit it.  I was an iPhone Luddite.  However after using the iPhone 3G for almost a year now, I must say it's become integrated into my life.  Here's some of the apps I find indespensable:

• Google.  Love the voice recognition.
• Google 411.  Well its not technically and app, but an excellent resource for any mobile phone user.
• Pandora.  Why buy 32GB of storage when you just going to listen to streaming music anyway.
• mSecure.  Keeps all my private info (i.e. passwords) readily available and secure.
• Facebook.  If you going to do the social thing, this is the best way to do it.

Posted at 04:55PM Jun 09, 2009 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[0]

Essential FireFox extensions for the web developer

Indispensable extensions for FireFox that can make a web developer more productive.

• Firebug
• IE View
• LinkChecker
• Live HTTP Headers
• Screengrab
• Web Developer
• CacheViewer
• Open Profile Folder

Posted at 10:56AM Jun 09, 2009 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[0]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Clarify performance boost when viewing activity log

Experiencing very slow response times when viewing the activity log for any object.  Look at this.

Posted at 12:00AM Feb 28, 2007 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[0]

HTML dump of Clarify Data Dictionary

 Here's some ClearBasic code that you can use to extract the Clarify Data Dictionary to HTML

Posted at 12:00AM Feb 26, 2007 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[0]

Clarify, Clarify, Clarify... and more Clarify

Tips, Tricks, and Code from my years of working with Clarify.

Posted at 12:00AM Feb 23, 2007 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[0]