What 255 characters looks like

Posted by Frank - May 26, 2009 - For techies

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“Should I use TEXT or VARCHAR field here?” I’ve lost count of the number of times that I asked myself this question when putting together database structures. Since the maximum a VARCHAR can hold is 255, it becomes a question of whether or not the data you’re saving will be any longer than that. Sometimes [...]

Go Bullets!

Posted by Frank - May 21, 2009 - For everyone

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My brother, Patrick, plays lacrosse for Gettysburg College. Last weekend they beat Stevenson University — an upset by the stats, but they owned the game — which advanced them to the NCAA Division III Championship. They’ll be playing Cortland at Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots, on Sunday for the title. The game [...]

IE: You’re still doing it wrong…

Posted by Frank - May 14, 2009 - For techies

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While working on the file manager section of the Fwd:Vault website, I decided to do a quick check on cross-browser compatibility. The following screenshots are of the same page using the same HTML layout, CSS definitions, etc… At this point in my career, I don’t think words can express how much I utterly loathe Microsoft’s [...]

Translating PHP error constants

Posted by Frank - May 12, 2009 - For techies

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I wanted to log all the errors thrown out by Fwd:Vault processes to ensure that any bugs I don’t catch myself bubble to the top very quickly. To get started, I replaced PHP’s default error handling with a custom error handler function, which simply logs the error in a MySQL table before passing it along [...]

New Gaming Want: Global Agenda

Posted by Frank - May 12, 2009 - For everyone

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Factoid about me: PlanetSide ranks in the top 5 for my all-time favorite gaming experiences. A persistent MMO world that was essentially a massive FPS match, there was nothing like it. You’d be part of an army of literally hundreds, all working together to attack an outpost tower, a large base, a continent. Grounds troops [...]

Usability Fail: Xenocode

Posted by Frank - May 5, 2009 - For entrepreneurs, For techies

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Maybe I’m just getting more cynical, but I’ve been finding a lot more sites doing really stupid things that serve only to piss off their users. As a result I’ve decided to start a new series of posts titled “Usability Fail” which will discuss just that: sites that make dumb decisions that utterly fail in [...]