Archive for 'web development'

Backing up external hard drives on Apple Time Machine

Time Machine advertises itself as able to backup external hard drives, which is exactly what I need because I store all my raw pictures and video on an external hard drive. However, after plugging in my external, Time Machine never picked it up. Turns out that that external hard drive needs to be formatted as [...]

Just so you know…

Just so you know, I will never refer to Kristine as “the fiancé” or “the wife” or “the Mrs.”.  I will refer to her by her name because she has a name.  

UPS Sucks

Please tell me why my package didn’t go straight from Houston to Austin. Why the hell is it in Laredo?!

Can you turn this excel spreadsheet into a web application?

The phrase above basically sums up my existence at my job. There’s all sorts of important information that people have been storing in an Excel Spreadsheet and now, they have no easy way of extracting that data and/or connecting that data to other data sources. In my continuing quest to figure out a better way [...]

lovehandled.com

Just wanna give a shoutout to Rico’s new blog lovehandled.com. He asked me to get the domain name and set up wordpress on it, and it honestly took like 5 minutes. Dreamhost makes it unbelievably easy to do so.

Smiley faces

I put smiley faces in my SVN repository commits in hopes that someone will find them in the future and be reminded to “have a nice day”.

Nested Left Joins?!

I didn’t know you could write MySQL queries like this, but I just did: SELECT it.*,a.name parent_primary_attribute,d.value primary_value FROM itemtype it LEFT JOIN (primaryattribute pa LEFT JOIN (itemtypeattribute_default d, itemtypeattribute a) ON (pa.attribute_id=d.attribute_id AND pa.attribute_id=a.id) ) ON (it.parent_id=pa.type_id AND d.type_id=it.id) WHERE it.id=’$id’”;

Facebook is not Intelligent

Now seriously, why would you suggest that I become a fan of the competitor?

I’m Sick of Recursive Functions

In one of my recent projects, I’ve had to write a ton of recursive functions to iterate through tables whose foreign key references the same table. I’m sick of writing them, but I’ll have to say I’m pretty decent at writing them now.

Austin Javascript Meetup!

I almost forgot about this, but I just found out about the Austin Javascript meetup… Thanks to @andyhite for the heads up. I’m pretty excited about meeting some people to discuss this stuff because I’ve been having some pretty bad issues with my applications which are heavily reliant on javascript. The bigger it gets, the [...]