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On College Athletics
Inspiration for this post: NYT: Let’s Start Paying College Athletes I spend a lot of time reading and absorbing thoughts from various media members and other pundits about What To Do About College Athletics™. The divide between coaching/administering haves and … Continue reading
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Tagged athletics, basketball, college, football, ncaa, scholarships, sports
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Clean Up OS X Lion Launchpad
I’m not especially a big fan of the OSX Lion Launchpad, but it pops up every once in a while. It would really bother me that it showed every single app in my Applications folder, including uninstallers and prefpanes and … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Tech
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Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
I’m sure plenty of people will say it more elegantly than I ever could, so I’m not going to go on and on and on about it. Steve Jobs’ passing came too soon, and the future is not going to … Continue reading
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MySQL Transactions
MySQL has the ability to handle what are known as transactions: a series of queries that must be executed in an all-or-none fashion. As a bonus, it’s super easy to use. Using PHP, you can do the following: mysql_query(“START TRANSACTION”); … Continue reading
Use PHP to get all images in a folder
This: $images = glob($directory . “*.{jpg,gif,png}”, GLOB_BRACE); is awesome.
iOS Training: Day 2
This is going to be a short one. After spending a ton of time at a computer the last couple days, writing a blog post isn’t the thing I’m dying to do at the moment. [Ed: Nevermind. Got rolling and … Continue reading
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iOS Training: Day 1
Today was the first real day of class. Over the course of about 12 hours working, I went through the first six chapters of the book we are supposed to make it all the way through this week. Today’s chapters … Continue reading
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iOS Training: Day 0
I left home in Indianapolis at 1:30 this afternoon and hopped a flight to Atlanta. After that, I took a one hour ride to Historic Banning Mills, Georgia, home of the Big Nerd Ranch. I got checked into my cozy … Continue reading
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Workout Plan
I’m developing a new plan to get healthy, and the biggest part of that is a workout plan. I decided that coming up with something super-specific that has every single day planned out has been a losing proposition every time … Continue reading