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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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iOS Alarm Debacle
Honestly, this alarm thing hasn’t affected me in the least, but I can imagine it did affect a lot of users. And really, there can’t be many things that are more frustrating than an alarm clock that doesn’t work. However, … Continue reading
Conflagration of IE6, PHP session_start, and blank pages
Yesterday, I was troubleshooting a problem that (only) showed up in IE6 where anytime I click a link that goes to a page with session_start() in it, I get a blank page with no errors and the address bar shows … Continue reading
Select the last n rows from a MySQL table
I needed to figure out how to select the last four rows of a database table without reversing the order of the rows. After a little digging, I got to this point: SELECT * FROM ( SELECT * FROM table_name … Continue reading
HDV and Graphics
If you are trying to create video graphics for HDV video, which is 1440×1080, the graphics should still be 1920×1080. Final Cut Pro will make it all jive when you import both. There seems to be a lack of this … Continue reading