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I’m in a quandry. I am building a reserved number system that will let a manager keep track of which competitor is entitled to a favorite number. These organizations run different types of events so this number manager must provide some flexibility. A schema with example data follows:

Participant
Event Type
Bicycle
Class
Grid
#

Brian

12

Joe
X-Country

12

Brian
X-Country
Klein
Pro
Red
12

Heidi
X-Country
Specialized
Pro
Blue
12

Mary

1002

Frank
Downhill

777

What IS OK:

Because this [...]

If you want to search by zip code, provide distance-from calculations or verify the city and state when someone enters a zip code, you’ll need a zip code database.
For MotorsportReg.com, I originally used a free but outdated USA zip code database with latitude and longitude. I know it’s outdated because my application sends me [...]

Jason from 37 Signals says the iPhone ads are “Perfect Advertising“. The ads themselves are quite nice but this phone will not work as well in person as it does in the ads because:

Humans have dirty hands. with the entire thing being a screen that you touch, it is going to be filthy. [...]

This site has been eerily quiet since November when I took a working sabbatical. It wasn’t the kind of trip that gave me much time to post here while I focused on other priorities but I am back in the San Francisco bay area and looking forward to posting again. It’s nice to [...]

Goal: have a single master source of email, contacts and calendar data accessible from any number of devices including desktop, laptop, internet cafe, and mobile device without using Outlook.
My Software:

Mozilla Thunderbird + Lightning calendaring extension plus:

Lightning Toggler – shows/hides the Lightning month/task options in the folder pane so you can switch between calendaring and email [...]

When I started my consulting firm years ago, we used a lot of Sun hardware. All Sun boxes provide dedicated console access through a serial port (or an RJ45 version of one) allowing you to remotely admin or plug your laptop in without needing a graphics card, monitor and keyboard. PC-based Un*x also [...]

I extracted the API out of my application so that multiple sites could use the same code base and it could be developed independent of the primary application. One of the subdirectories in the API is a CFC-based mail wrapper system for creating dynamic multi-part emails for new accounts, lost passwords and so forth.
When [...]

Mozilla just released 0.3 of both Lightning and Sunbird. This is great news as Thunderbird now has an integrated calendaring tool that supports meeting invitations and other Outlook-like functionality (for people who are into that) and also great because it will no longer eat your data. It looks nicer too although not iCal-nice.
Installation [...]

I have a strong dislike for Outlook so after picking up my HP HW6915/HW6945 Smartphone, I started searching to see if there was a way to use the Microsoft-centric Windows Mobile 5 with Thunderbird for my contacts and calendar. There are countless people looking for solutions, but almost no one mentions the shareware package [...]

We have a web-based IMAP client running in a subdirectory on our mail server and I wanted to force all usage to be protected by SSL. Google turned up a lot of hits but none of them worked out of the box. Here’s the mod_rewrite snippet which is inside of a <VirtualHost> block:
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