brian dichiara

Here’s some PHP code that will validate an email address.
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Difficulty: 2 (Beginner)
Time: 5 minutes

I decided to give tutorials a try and have seen how popular the “vector starburst” has become, so I decided to demonstrate a simple way to do that in Illustrator. There’s a pretty decent tutorial of how to do one in photoshop here, if you’re interested. (more…)

I used to work in customer service in a bank and I am currently working for a credit union, and I must say that the software writers that code for banking transactions need to fix a serious glitch. Here’s the situation:

I have an account with a local financial institution that I use solely to pay my bills, so I rarely keep much extra money in it. I usually put just enough in it to pay the bills through their bill payment service and that’s it. (more…)

Here’s something neat. If you want your SQL results in an order that’s not alphabetical or numerical, this little bit of code will allow you to specify what order you want your fields to appear. (more…)