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 [...]