Continuing in the saga of a customer’s SEO (search engine optimization) journey, I was told that I needed to find a way to mask the URLs used by our custom content management system completely using only the .htaccess file. Previously I was asked to make it possible to enter blah.com/bliggity into the browser and [...]
I’d just like to throw out a general gripe about the way Wordpress.com is handling themes. I was a little dismayed this afternoon when I took a look at my wordpress blog and found that the colors were all messed up. I’m assuming that this has something to do with a theme update. I don’t [...]
In the post “Mod_rewrite, how could I forget?!?” I wrote about using an htaccess generated by ColdFusion to make links that will display as blah.com/product rather than blah.com/index.cfm?page=123. In practice, as usual, it was a bit more tricky than most mod_rewrite tutorials put it–not vastly different, but just enough to require about 1/2 hour [...]
Due to a recent fiasco at my work with developers wiping out data in databases, I’ve decided it’d be a good idea to export the database so that we could recover individual tablespaces and tables if necessary. The answer doesn’t immediately present itself, however, because I don’t have the ’sys’ user password. I’m ok, [...]
A developer asked me the other day, “Do we have backups of the [insert website name here] database? I accidentally issued an SQL UPDATE statement without a WHERE clause and overwrote a bunch of data.”
“And you didn’t make an export before you started working on it, did you?”, I replied, admonishingly. The answer [...]
Well, at least Microsoft knows that they have a tradition of suck. They are apparently again worried about their reputation of complications after birth. If they want to blame it on the OEM garbage software, so be it (I don’t disagree that it’s GARBAGE!), but I know the truth. I’ve used Vista [...]
I was soooo ready for it and then BAM! There it was. I saw an article this evening on Slashdot while I was reading the day’s take that said Apple said something about the iPhone at their keynote today. I took a look and sure enough, there it was. I’m just [...]
In a recent project at work I was asked how we could change the URL of a page in a website. It’s a ColdFusion website, and everything is generated out of the index page. Therefore, every page in the website looks like blah.com/index.cfm?page=123. However, for the purposes of web analytics, at least [...]
Not long after I began in web development back in the mid ’90s, I began to favor fonts without serifs. I found the smooth curves and unadulterated corners of sans-serif fonts to be much more cuddly than their barbed-wire formed cousins. Perhaps I liked crispness of a clean sans-serif font on a minimalist [...]
I’d just like to put out another public gripe about cubicles. Since I became imprisoned in this fabric-lined bastille I’ve put on 20 lbs., developed tinnitus in my right ear and started smoking. Clearly there is some unnatural force flowing from this place that is disturbing my body’s ability to maintain homeostasis.