Imported posts from my old consulting business (2006-2010) and an earlier attempt at a regular blog (2011-2012). Interesting for historical purposes, but not meant to be taken too seriously.
If anyone hasn't heard, there's a bit of a kerfuffle brewing about Microsoft's decision to continue to use Word as the default editor and html renderer for Outlook 2010. Web developers reading this will probably cringe, as Outlook is the primary thorn in any email…
Continue reading...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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