Author Archive
Friday, September 8th, 2006
Employed – 2 weeks!
I accepted a job at www.info.com …. a pretty nifty search engine company in downtown chicago. Its quite interesting work! I finally WROTE again.. for a contest over at CodeSnipers. Vote if you want I have some plans to write some more after my past three months of hermit mode. I guess, I was just [...]
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
Day 0: Unemployed
Well … I had to leave my Perl/Ruby job because of financial difficulties of the company on Monday. But I still learned a ton of stuff and worked with some great people. When I left I had a job offer and another possible one, so it wasn’t too upsetting to leave. SO – only one [...]
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
Always Preview!
Instead of using Preview Template when I was creating a new template, I went ahead and saved.. I pasted in the wrong template and major borkage occured. So.. what the heck, I just picked a new design. Not done yet…
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
Its a SQL Thing
I want to do something like this: SELECT h.username AS user FROM userdata AS h WHERE user=”nstowe”; I am using the ALIAS of h.username, in my WHERE. I’m using MySQL. It doesn’t work, although I would of thought it would. Any ideas? is this same for Oracle, PG?
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Sunday, October 30th, 2005
Art of Project Management
I won this book, Art of Project Management, at the Chicago PHP User Group meeting, when Andy Lester spoke about Preventing Crisis: Project Estimation and Tracking that Works (PDF slides). It was a great presentation. It really helped me learn how to break down and project into smaller pieces. One thing he said, you should [...]
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Thursday, October 13th, 2005
Hey where you beeeen?
Been busy over at CodeSnipers. I wrote some posts about ruby, comparing it to PHP. Its pretty interesting to see how they compare, the readers and fellow bloggers have been really helpful in pointing out additional ways to do things as well. I’ve been “branching” out and going to user group meetings. Next week I [...]
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
NO LA
I find it sort of spooky that the letters of my name N O L A are also the abbreviations for an area that they say might become the next atlantis. The town is under water and more water expected. I remembered the company where I get my domain name from, DirectNIC was in NO, [...]
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
Review of Ultra Edit and Ultra Edit Studio
I did a review for CodeSnipers.com .. see here: CodeSnipers.com – Software Review: UltraEdit 11 and Ultra Edit Studio 5
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Sunday, August 28th, 2005
Teaching someone to program
I’ve been after my husband to learn programming. He’d be so good at it, he’s so smart. I tried teaching him HTML, which is actually pretty BORING. He was not too interested. SO I said, ok fine.. we’ll learn HTML as needed (templates where possible, using Dreamweaver), I’ll start with PHP instead. I thought, what [...]
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Friday, May 27th, 2005
Design Patterns
I love this stuff http://blog.casey-sweat.us/index.php?p=48 I can’t wait for his book, PHP Design Patterns to come out. I will be getting that one for sure! Checkout the download with the presentation on design patterns. Good stuff!
