• Piss and Moan, Websites

    Posted on April 21st, 2010

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    I Suck at WordPress Theme Design

    Basically I hate designing themes.  I usually end up spending days and days tweaking the CSS to get the columns floating over to the correct place and only find it doesn’t work on a different browser (i.e. IE).  The process starts over again until I get it working for all browsers. Like I said, it [...]

  • Software Development

    Posted on December 10th, 2008

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    Professor Young’s Office Hours

    I’ve been getting some really strange questions on this blog like “How do I Write Software?”  Uh, can you please be more specific?  Do you know what you are trying to build, model, etc.?  No, I just want to learn how to write software from scratch! So, I put on my Professors cap and believe [...]

  • Software Development

    Posted on December 2nd, 2008

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    I’m Getting Excited About Widgets

    There’s a strange trend going around the web that brings me back earlier in my career when we thought software engineering was going the way of widgets or modules.  In a nutshell, you basically take a widget here or widget there and integrate them to build a large scale application. We sorta do this today [...]

  • Software Development

    Posted on June 13th, 2008

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    The Google Borg Assimilated Me

    Sometimes development projects just drag on and on… and sometimes resistance is futile when it comes to NIH. I swear that the Borg got me the last six months when I started switching over to Cake PHP and an MVC Architecture. It’s not that I like or enjoy assimilation, but every time I analyze the [...]

  • Websites

    Posted on May 6th, 2008

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    Besides Software I Actually Know Very Little About SEO

    Unlike me, Amit the Super Affiliate, probably should stick to PPC traffic cause he can’t pass a simple SEO Cartoon Quiz. Not that I’m a professed SEO expert, I’ve found that if you simply “follow the SEO recipe“, your pages will rank higher in the SERPS. After all, W3.org is the governing organization which all [...]

  • Computers Suck, Firmware, Hardware

    Posted on January 5th, 2008

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    02h — You’re Killing Me Today

    I really didn’t want to go into work today but I keep getting a Check Condition (SCSI Status Code 02h). I should have hooked up the Fibre Channel Analyzer up last night, but with the “Great California Rain Storm” pounding down, I left the office to pick up my wife before the real rain started. [...]

  • Software Development, Websites

    Posted on December 27th, 2007

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    MVC Architecture

    Basic Stuff: The Model-View-Controller Architecture has three components used to partition and separate the processing from the display or GUI: The Model, View and Controller. Basically, the inputs are mapped to the Controller and the outputs are mapped to the View. The Model maintains the persistent state of the Controller. Some MVC Architecture Diagrams show [...]

  • Software Development, Websites

    Posted on December 14th, 2007

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    Not Invented Here — Time to Reframe the Development Process (Part III)

    Leveraging existing technology is always a difficult task. It’s more of a personal challenge to get over the mindset that you can do it better. Perhaps you can, but do you have the time and budget to accomplish the daunting task of building a component that someone already has built for you? There’s a lot [...]

  • Software Development, Websites

    Posted on December 13th, 2007

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    Not Invented Here — Time to Reframe the Development Process (Part II)

    Not Invented Here is a continuing series of articles to help you overcome the hurdles of reusing and leverage existing technology for rapid development. The decision to develop any product in-house takes considerable amount of effort and development time. Reusing components and integrating them with your product reduces the time to delivery and in the [...]

  • Software Development, Websites

    Posted on December 12th, 2007

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    Not Invented Here — Time to Reframe the Development Process

    “Not Invented Here” (NIH). This is one of the biggest hurdles developers have to overcome when reusing components, modules, functions or snippets in the production software. I’ve run across it my entire development career — developers simply do not like to use software that they don’t write and own — and of course, I’m am [...]

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