Articles

A more in depth post is to follow when the entire procedure is done, but I feel so silly about this I just have to post it for all the world to share in la

I have a lookup table where I am using a composite key which must be unique. I was not sure if MySQL was able to do this or not, but I very quickly found o

The topic of MySQL and NULLs came up in my IRC room today. It turns out that MySQL tends to handle NULLs in a rather wonky way at times. Personally, I usua

I recently had a situation with a client where I needed to use an iframe to pull content from a bulletin board into their main site template. Setting up th

I call this an adventure because it was really more than a trip. A trip involves simply getting in your car, fueling up, and getting there. This is a tale

There are an overwhelming number of regex sequences out there to validate an email address against, and frankly I get tired of running through them all try

I find myself wanting random passwords all the time, and on a web project I needed to generate passwords automatically to send out to users. Here is the fu

Quite often I need to look into the database to see if a record exists. For example, to check if a username already exists when creating a new user. I crea

Yesterday was the Bus Pilots annual May Day Show and Shine, this year at Lakeview Park in Nampa Idaho. It was a great time of hanging out with other Bus Pi

I did pretty well for myself this month. The large spike on the very left of the graph was a fluke day, so do not take it into consideration. The market ju

It’s finally done! My Camping and Rec class has a project requirement of each student to build some sort of handbook. Most students choose a retreat

I just read a good article that was sent to me via a Calvinist email group I am subscribed to. I rather enjoyed it and I think you should read it as well.