Last night the I participated as a representative for computer programming at the Clear Creek ISD College and Career Fair night. The Clear Creek school district offers a number of programs that encourage students to jump start their future education and careers. The job fair is a way for students...

Adam Cameron posted a code challenge on his blog this last Friday. I have provided my answer in the form of a Google Go project. For those interested a 10,000ft view of how this works can be found below. Here are the instructions he provided. For a given array and...

Earlier this year I wrote a guest post for the web site sublimetexttips.com. This post walks you through your first time writing a plugin for Sublime Text, the most superb text and code editor. Sublime plugins are written in Python. If you’ve never written any Python before don’t let it...

MailSlurper 4.0 has just been released. This update addresses some bugs in parsing attachments and date display. It also adds the ability to choose from one of the following storage engines: SQlite MySQL Microsoft SQL Server This enhancement is one of several planned to make MailSlurper not only useful to...

I have just published a small but important update to MailSlurper. Previously mails with attachments would cause issues with the parser and would not display correctly in the administrator. This has been addressed. In fact you can now see that a mail has attachments and even view them! So go...

Tonight as I was working a bug in MailSlurper I quickly came to the realization that my parsing routine sucks. The current version is passable for simple text emails or basic HTML emails. But the moment you add attachments or inline images it all goes downhill. The further I dove...

I got a ticket the other day questioning why my Sublime Text View In Browser plugin saves the file they are viewing every time the plugin is used. The answer of course is because it must be saved prior to opening in the browser. However the poster of the ticket...

Tonight I have integrated a few reports from Google Analytics into the Texo adminstrator Dashboard. I have included a Visits vs New Visits, Browser Stats, and Page Traffic information. Now I don’t have to log in to the Google Analytics dashboard unless I really want to dig into stats. Most...

Since I write my blog posts in Markdown format I decided I wanted a way to backup my posts in a way that is human readable. The result is a feature in Texo to export my blog entries as zipped up Markdown files.

I am proud to announce the 3.0 release of MailSlurper, the handy local development mail server that slurps mail into oblivion. When writing application that send mail I use MailSlurper to capture outgoing mail to ensure mail is working, and the actual mail item is what I expect it to...