This blog is largely an excuse for me to stretch long-unused writing muscles and to explore ideas I find interesting. There's likely a lot of technology and internet related content, and I'm sure there will be food-related musings as well.
Here's a rough proposal for a talk at the 2009 CT Film Festival. Let me know if you have any comments or questions! Being online is a must for any burgeoning content creator, but standing out from the crowd is an ever-growing challenge. As the…
Continue reading...One of the things that's always bugged me about designing good cross-platform SQL queries is the difficulty in constructing complicated 'where' clauses. Things like nested logic (AND (a = 2 OR b = 3)), column comparisons (whenadded != lastupdated), and function calls (whenadded > dateAdd(d…
Continue reading...When Amazon began reselling their backbone as web services, another barrier to the internet collapsed. Much like the introduction of the LAMP stack heralded the arrival of commoditized web applications, Amazon's service heralded the commoditization of large-scale application deployment. A budding web company no longer…
Continue reading...One of my clients recently overhauled their talent pool. Their staff went from two freelancers with very general development skills to one generalist (me), two php developers, and a CSS/HTML developer. System administration was understandably not in the three new developers' bags of tricks, and…
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