Jared Stenquist – Personal Blog » 2009

February 16th, 2009

Bank of America Still Sucks – Re-Opens Account after 2 months

After many (20+) problems over the past year with Bank of America, I decided to close my accounts. Instead of doing it over the phone, I went in personally to insure that it was handled properly. I visited one of the bankers and emptied my accounts and asked for them to be immediately closed. The banker complied and gave me all the cash from my three accounts and assured me that they were all closed. With three – zero balance receipts in hand I headed back to the office.

To double check that indeed my accounts were closed, I logged into each e-banking account i had. Each time, the system alerted me that no accounts were attached to the account. Success! Or so I thought…

Today I received 2 overdraft notices from Bank of America stating that an electronic payment had failed and that I now had (2) $35 overdraft fees. It turns out this was one of the auto-payments i had set with Staples for our company credit card. I forgot to update my banking information on the Staples account. Even after 2 months of my account being closed, BOA re-opened my account and let two NSF overdrafts go through.

Now I have to make my 21st trip to the local BOA to reverse the fees and re-close the account again. Unreal.

Published in: customer service

February 13th, 2009

Removing extra linebreaks and spaces in Dreamweaver

We use dreamweaver here at the office along with SVN for our source control. We couldn’t figure out for the life of us what what causing many, many extra lines to appear in our code after multiple commits/uploads. Finally a Google search provided the answer.

How to remove extra spaces

While the document is open in Dreamweaver, press CTRL+F to load the Find & Replace dialog box. Do the search on the source code view.
Check the box “Use regular expression” and uncheck any other boxes.
Find: [\r\n]{2,}
Replace: \n
The hit “replace all”

That’s it!

However, take note that this method will remove any existing white space on your code.

Another thing. When you download the file again, Dreamweaver will add another white space on your code. Messing it up again. This is because of encoding and server type.

This usually happens if you are using Dreamweaver CS3 and your are downloading a file from a Unix/Linux server to a Windows based local PC.

Change Your Dreamweaver Settings to Prevent it