Monthly Archives: February 2009

Windows bug in week numbers

Today is a joyful day as we found a bug in the Windows Outlook Calendar. We are currently working with week numbers and wanted to know what the correct standard was for this subject, so we searched for the ISO … Continue reading

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Symfony Forms Framework: Change validators at runtime.

Let’s say you have to make a user form with password fields. When you create the user you want the password fields to be required, but on an update the password fields should be optional because you don’t want the … Continue reading

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why emails get blocked by spam filters

How is it possible that my emails are blocked by spam filters? I got this question from a few friends and a client and this are the things you can do: Check your newsletter/email on a spam checker tool Programmers … Continue reading

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layout inspiration

A lot of programmers seem to hate the layout part of the job. Well if you work in a big company you probably won’t do the two jobs, but in some cases, or when you work in a small company … Continue reading

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Green programming – contribution to the environment

Everybody seems to be talking about a green and environment-friendly job. Well I wondered how we, as IT guys can contribute to this phenomenon and came up with these answers (after a bit of research). In our workspace we can … Continue reading

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John Resig: the messy DOM

Take a look at this: a very interesting video of John Resig on the DOM. John Resig: "The DOM Is a Mess" @ Yahoo! Video

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