Archives » April, 2005

Development this week…

Well, this week has been a hodge-podge of tasks that simply needed done. The first were simple recursive copy and rename .NET functions, used primarly for deploying some extra files in the content system. All in all rather light, but still worthy of noting.
The rest of this week has been the completion [...]

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Anxiously waiting…

Well, last week I went to the eye doctor to have an exam and get a new prescription for glasses. I then went to Eyetique to get a new pair of glasses. I ended up getting a pair of Oakley rimless frames (I’m not sure of the exact style) along with a pair [...]

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If it weren’t the weekend…

… someone would have died by now. The past few days I’ve been absolutely swamped with tasks, and they aren’t the typical “hey, can you add this little feature here” type of requests.
First of all, two of the .NET applications I have been left with are in dire need of some major [...]

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The wonder of Regular Expressions

At work this week, we’ve been trying to get glossary highlighting to work on some of our generated content pages. Basically, it takes a list of words and “wraps” the words in a speciality tag, which the publisher then uses to generate special tags which contain the word’s definition. Sounds easy, right? [...]

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MySQL 5.0

I was jumping around the web yesterday, and decided that it would be fun to head over to MySQL and see what’s up with them.
What did I find? The newest version of MySQL (Version 5.0,which is currently a beta/developer release) contains support for stored procedures, as well as some preliminary trigger support. [...]

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