Archive for the “Development” Category

Mock me? Mock you.

As I said in my last post, I’m spending some time working on my own websites for the first time in a long while. I admit, I’m not moving as fast as I’d like, but at least I’m doing something.

I thought the best place to start was to mock up the new layout so I could figure out what I wanted to do before I started any coding. I’ve been doing that at  […]

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I have a plan

It seems like that since I started working full time as a web developer/programmer, I have neglected my own websites. It has been really bad over the past few years. I don’t even blog very much any more. I’ve basically been doing all of my ranting and raving on Twitter and Facebook and haven’t been giving my own websites any attention. I spend 8 hours (or 9 hours this summer) working on other people’s websites  […]

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I had such high hopes

After I redesigned this place the last time (back in September, I had such high hopes of blogging more often and blogging about techie stuff. It’s now March, and this is only my 2nd post of the year, and no techie/geekie stuff. Yeah … I’m burning up the place. LOL

Since I’m back working again (just over 4 months at the new place) and coding every day, I have ideas race through my head  […]

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New Project

While I wait to hear back from the job opportunity I interviewed for last week and the job opportunity I applied for yesterday, I need a project to keep me occupied. I only really have one idea for what that project should be. I’ve already done something similar with this idea, but I thought I would take it a step further this time around.

What is the idea? Well, it’s a weather widget. Yes, there  […]

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Optional should be OPTIONAL

Yesterday and today, I've been working on some changes to our discount system (at work). The majority of the changes dealt with the (mssql) database ... stored procedures and user defined functions (ufn). One of the changes was to get the shopping cart subtotal based on different criteria ...

  • If the shopping cart had an order-level discount in it, and that discount was set up to override any discount exclusions that were set up, the
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