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Re: Completely Redesigned High-Yield Interest Rate Page (and Blog Roundup)

Tim — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:12:44 -0000

Check out this site too for a comparison of many of the high yield savings accounts and their rates as of 1/26/08:
http://themoneykings.com/blog/comparison_of_hig...

Re: Home Maintenance Tips: Spring projects

Tim — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:12:31 -0000

Another thing I do in the spring is look for any small holes or gaps around my house that mice can get into. Sometimes the caulk comes out of holes it is plugging (such as by the AC unit lines).

Another simple one, but something people dont always do: I tighten up all the bolts on my garage door opener, and spray the chain mechanism with a little WD-40 to lubricate it back up again.
Tim
TheMoneyKings.com

Re: Are You A Blogoholic?

Tim — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:14:29 -0000

Yep, this list confirms it. I am a blogaholic!

Re: linklings, dawn of the problogging empire

Tim — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:36:54 -0000

Yep, in the world of being a full time blogger, you have to blog whenever the creativity is sparked. You're not in the 9 to 5 world anymore! There's also no good time to take off as your readers will notice when you stop posting for a week!

Re: Impress your Web Visitors with real-time Form Validation

Tim — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:31:11 -0000

I totally agree about the validation being a necessary component of any application. As a team lead, I usually find myself sending code back to be "finished" for reasons such as missing validations or restricting text input lengths.

For most things I work on I find it takes about 50% of the time to get something working, under normal conditions and if users use the system the way I intended. The other 50% of the development time comes from checking their input, ensuring data integrity is maintained, and making the form fields not allow malicious data to be entered.

I wrote a post on how I use InputVerifiers in my hava swing apps, and show how I verify an email text field. The regular expression I use is easily modifiable to validate phone numbers, zipcodes, SSNs, etc.

My blog post is at http://timarcher.com/?q=node/36

Good writeup Doug!

Re: Arizona Coffee - Site of the Week

Tim — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:51:29 -0000

I'll have to give arizona coffee a shot next time I'm in the area! I haven't had my dose for the day and now you have me getting thirsty for some!

Tim
TheMoneyKings.com

Re: Speed Test Your Internet Connection

Tim — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 08:42:37 -0000

Heres a link to another connection speed testing tools from that I did a writeup on. I usually find it most useful to run my speed tests to several servers and locations to see how the speeds vary.

http://timarcher.com/?q=node/28