I’m learning the hard way how to estimate development time, and much to the frustration
of everyone around me it seems like the answer to “How long will it take to do this?” is
more often than not “I’ll get back to you.”
Here’s a useful (and easy) regular expression.
Problem: Internally, people continue to cut and paste from dozens of different and
very unique programs. This often includes special and non-printable characters
that break either web presentation or xml feeds.
Here’s a code snippet for turning classes into “Singleton” objects. Basically,
this is for when you have a class and you don’t want to create a bunch of instances
of that class.
Here’s a query I use to find find the closest X locations to a particular latitude and longitude. I usually end up combining it with a lot of other query business, but in this case I’ve tried to remove everything that isn’t related to the proximity
query.
I’m the first to admit that I don’t know Bash very well. I spent a week on it
in college and then quickly moved on…It just isn’t a language that I’ve had
a huge need for in my personal or professional life.
This website isn’t written to impress. It is, in concept, a notebook. A place for me
to make notes that I can look back on. I do hope that it helps other programmers out
and makes things easier for them then they were for me.
Won the monthly, company-wide MVP award for leading the online portion of our “Best of” publication. Played critical roles in conceptualization/creation, planning, management, development, and deployment of the online component of this project. It was a resounding success, making more money than any other annual special publication with the exception of one that has been around for ages.