Recently I was looking for a way to add small calendar icons to the posts on my Drupal site. There are a number of solutions out there for drupal, but the ones I found all used icons, which was an approach I was trying to avoid.  Here is a good example for drupal using icons.

Finally, I found some examples for wordpress that were pure html+css without any images. I have taken that example and drupal-fied it. When done, you will have nice calendar icons that show the current date of the post, and a flexible way of including the icons anywhere you would like.

The end result:

Read on for the instructions.

I recently struggled mightily with what I thought should be an easy problem.  I had an image in flex and wanted to be able to pan around it and zoom in and out.  

It turns out that a lot of people have a problem with this task, because how the scrollbars in flex keep track of where they are, and how flex handles the origin of a zoom operation.  Read on for details.

I've been following the unfolding events in Iran closely since a little before the election. Today I decided to set up a proxy server to help the citizens there stay connected to the world community.

Here are the steps I took in case you would like to do the same. BE CAREFUL! You don't want to run an open-to-the-world proxy server, and even locking it down to just the Iranian IP blocks puts your server at a small risk. I provide no warranty for the following advice.

For several years, Qcubed has been my php framework of choice. I'll be writing about Qcubed frequently so I wanted to first give an overview of its features. Read on for my overview.

Here's a quick tip for using iTerm to connect to Linux servers. 

To get proper arrow key support in programs like vi, along with some other benefits, set the terminal type to 'linux'.  The easiest way to do this is to create a new profile and use that profile for bookmarks that represent Linux servers you connect to.