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Posts tagged "software development"

Building a complex system? Take easy steps.

Posted by Frank - March 21, 2010 - For techies
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After launching Fwd:Vault last month, it’s been a race to add the necessary features and functions to take the service broader. First on the list was more subscription tiers. I launched with just two: free and “unlimited everything.” I did this because, well, it was easy. Your instinct may be to dismiss my decision as [...]

Read More coding theory, crappy coding, software development, standards

jQuery 1.4 released

Posted by Frank - January 20, 2010 - For techies
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The latest and greatest version of jQuery, version 1.4, was released on January 14, the birthday of jQuery’s original launch. Bugfixes and improvements abound! The jQuery team has put together a site devoted to the new version, called the 14 days of jQuery, covering the major version changes as well as infrastructure updates coinciding with [...]

Read More ajax, handy functions, jquery, open source, programming, software development, standards, usability

A vet’s perspective on Michael Vick

Posted by Frank - January 4, 2010 - For entrepreneurs, For everyone, For techies
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Everyone at this point knows the story of Michael Vick (quick summary if you don’t: he beat dogs, then got his high-paying job back after getting out of prison). Now the Philadelphia Eagles have given this guy a damn award. I could sit here and articulate this guy’s rise-fall-rise-again story as a sign of the [...]

Read More optimization, software development, usability, user interfaces

MySQL founder Michael Widenius concerned about sale to Oracle

Posted by Frank - December 18, 2009 - For entrepreneurs, For techies
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In case you haven’t heard, Sun is being bought by Oracle. After dancing around the issue in blog posts over the past 8 months, MySQL developer-founder Michael “Monty” Widenius finally comes out and adamantly opposes MySQL’s role in the sale. In a Dec. 12 blog post, Widenius tries to rally open source MySQL supporters in [...]

Read More business support, enterprise, open source, software development

Run your servers without timezone offsets

Posted by Frank - November 24, 2009 - For techies
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I recently made the decision to store times on Fwd:Vault systems in Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT. I decided to do this because I have time-sensitive events happening along several dimensions. Email coming into the system has several timestamps associated with it: the user’s initial delivery, relay from their mail server, and receipt by the [...]

Read More coding theory, fwdvault, software development, standards, tech support, Twitter, usability

Get domain out of any URL string (yes, really)

Posted by Frank - October 27, 2009 - For techies
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It’s a common problem with no single right answer: extract the top domain (e.g. example.com) from a given string, which may or may not be a valid URL. I had need of such functionality recently and found answers around the web lacking. So if you ever “just wanted the domain name” out of a string, [...]

Read More coding theory, crappy coding, php, programming, regular expressions, software development

Future of Web Apps London 2009 video index

Posted by Frank - October 9, 2009 - For entrepreneurs, For techies
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The Future of Web Apps conference is so right up my alley it’s almost stupid that I couldn’t attend. Web development with a focus on business: customer service, driving traffic, marketing, sales… It’s essentially the event for geeks who want to go from the basement to the corner office. Fortunately, Ryan Carson and the team [...]

Read More business support, content sharing, customer service, entrepreneur, expo, marketing, software development, usability

Get HTTP status code of cURL call in PHP

Posted by Frank - September 10, 2009 - For techies
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With all the fancy cURL-based API’s out there these days (Facebook and Twitter immediately come to mind), using cURL to directly access and manipulate data is becoming quite common. However like all programming, there’s always the chance for an error to occur, and thus these calls must be immediately followed by error checks to ensure [...]

Read More browsers, php, software development, Twitter

Mentioned in recent IT World article

Posted by Frank - August 12, 2009 - For entrepreneurs, For everyone, For techies
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I was recently quoted in an article over at IT World, discussing underused developer tools (e.g. security testers). My quote is on page 2: http://www.itworld.com/development/74088/developer-tools-you-dont-use-and-why-you-dont-use-them Also FYI I am on vacation the rest of this week; return to our regular schedule next Monday.

Read More entrepreneur, fwdvault, get inspired, media, software development, usability

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 [...]

Read More database, software development
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