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WPThemesFree.com – Decoding the footers
Recently a friend asked for help setting up a website. When this happens I normally just throw a few minutes of time in to help set up a WordPress site and install a theme. I do a few minutes of customization to the theme to make it fit what they want and then [...]
Creating Code 39 Barcodes in Pure Javascript
There are many different barcode standards and code 39 is one that is easy to use, supported by most scanners, and can encode letters, numbers, spaces, and some punctuation. For these reasons it makes it a good choice for many different scenarios.
There are a lot of ways you can create barcodes on your own. [...]
Circular Bit Shifting in PHP
In PHP there is bit shifting to the right and bit shifting to the left, but they just shift bits off of the end of the bytes. At one point in the past for reasons I don’t remember I had the need to have the ability to circularly shift bits instead of just shifting [...]
PHP States Array
Today a co-worker of mind asked me if I had an array of states handy so he didn’t have to go create one. I did, and gave it to him, and thought that maybe someone else could benefit from it. So, continue on to get a copy/paste PHP array of states.
Manually Parsing an x509 Certificate in PHP
One might ask why you would ever need to manually parse an x509 certificate in PHP when there are handy functions like openssl_x509_parse just laying around. The answer? To verify the certificate’s signature. Why can’t you just use openssl_x509_checkpurpose you say? Well, because there are bugs in certain combinations of PHP and [...]
XD Triggers 1.0 Beta
Ok, so, I am far from done with putting all of my content on the site but I have some done now. Love this theme too. If you are a WordPress nerd then check out XDTriggers