Articles
These cover a variety of topics. Some of them might software development, productivity, web tech, and popular culture. These are typically referred to as "blog posts", but the term blog has largely fallen out of favor. The term "posts" has largely been recast to refer to short content on social media sites like Facebook or Mastodon. Since my writings are usally longer, I prefer to my writings as articles.
Decoding Short URLs
Short URLs – You see them everywhere! They’re used in social media, IM, and email – anywhere space is limited. A long URL can wrap across lines and break in a weird way. Do you know where a the short URL will send you? It’s not always where you think!
Don’t Fear The Shortcode
I like WordPress shortcodes. I think they can empower authors. But people some people are afraid to use them.
Playing Games with SQL
When dealing with a sports league of any sort, there are two elemental tables that make the core of the application – games and teams. The game table has foreign keys in it that refer to the team table. Because of this, we’ll talk about the team table first. Team Table +————+————-+——+—–+———+——-+ | Field | … Read more » Playing Games with SQL
Convert Line Endings In Textmate
Goto Text > Filter Through Command Set Input to “Document” Set Output to “Replace Document” Use this sed one-liner as your command to convert from Unix to DOS: sed “s/$/`echo -e \\\r`/”