Monthly Archives: February 2010

My current toolset

Posted on February 18, 2010 by lehresman

There are many tools I use on a day-to-day basis to get things done. John Long posted a similar list on his blog, and I thought it would be interesting to make a similar list for myself. Without further ado, … Continue reading →

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Are masked password fields necessary?

Posted on February 10, 2010 by lehresman

Last March, @johnwlong tweeted “Do people really want their password hidden (••••••) when they signup?” (here) and “Wondering about dropping the “confirm password” field on our signup screen and using a normal text field for the password instead.” (here). My … Continue reading →

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Spreedly PHP Library v2.5 released

Posted on February 6, 2010 by lehresman

As mentioned previously, I use a service called Spreedly to manage subscriptions in NeoBudget. I also created and maintain the Spreedly PHP library. Thanks to the contributions of some fellow Spreedly customers, and due to some recent enhancements from Spreedly, … Continue reading →

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Creating a JavaScript application with MooTools

Posted on February 5, 2010 by lehresman

MooTools makes dynamic DOM manipulation simple. It provides some object oriented wrappers around browser functionality, and ensures cross-browser compatibility with all modern browsers (and even IE6). Lately, I’ve been using MooTools with a couple web applications that are completely rendered … Continue reading →

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Separate display from logic

Posted on February 2, 2010 by lehresman

PHP lets developers write ugly code. And I mean really ugly, unmaintainable, horrific code. I’ve had to work on my share of projects that would make spaghetti code look organized. It doesn’t have to be that way though. Seasoned developers … Continue reading →

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