Over the last few months, I have been getting a very strange error message sometimes when starting the Apache service on my XP machine. The service would fail to start and would report “Service specific error 1″. A reboot would always fix it, but it was a real pain, especially if I was in the […]

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The Mozilla Developer Center is an excellent resource for all sorts of client-side programming from Javascript, XML, XPath, CSS, HTML, even SVG and XUL. Not only does it provide a very well documented reference for each of these languages/methodologies, but also tutorials and links to other sites where you can find more information.
Handy Firefox tip […]

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Often as a software developer, you might find yourself thinking “if I just had list of all X, then I could do XYZ”. One great place to start looking for lists of things is Wikipedia, especially if it’s something relatively general. For more specific things (such as a list of postcodes in a country), a […]

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Just recently I’ve been working on a project which required integration with a credit-card payment gateway, and I needed to grab the user’s data (name, address, etc) from the form they fill in for the gateway. The problem? There was no “state/territory” selector on the gateway form. The solution? Look up their postcode to find […]

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