Click and dial can be quite handy and a time saver if you do a lot of calls. Implementing this in a CRM or a web based system is easier then it sounds with Cisco VOIP phones. In this example we will use PHP to call a webservice on the phone and have the phone dial whatever phone number we want. [...]

Keeping track of different versions can be tricky when automated build processes falls outside a standard environment. And if it involves mulitiple components of different nature with many tweaks and builds then this tool might be useful. A simple command line tool for Windows that runs a counter for each time you run a build, and it generate a small build version file that easily helps you to distinguish different versions. [...]

If you have a lot of Virtualbox images (.vdi) disk space starts to become an issue (even dynamically allocated images). So to reduce the size of the images there are a couple of tools we can use, and scripting to get the job done faster. [...]

There are a lot of ways to try to prevent and stop data from being sent more than once from a form, typically we use cookies, session, and redirects. And somehow we still end up with duplicate data in the database. So we add extra measures on the server side, run extra queries to the database to see if it already exists before inserting, etc. And we end up cluttering the original code with more logic to double-check.. [...]