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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 […]

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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, […]

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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

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XSL Variable Quirks

I'm still working on our Google Checkout integration at work. I have the web service done, but now I need to process the notifications from Google and update our database accordingly. This morning I was working on translating the XML from Google's 'New Order Notification' into a simpler XML that I can use to insert the order into our database by translating it through an XSL stylesheet. While doing […]

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Weekday plugin

When I first moved over to WordPress as a blogging platform in June 2004, I wasn't able to find a way to get the date for my posts to display Today or Yesterday. I had been able to when I used MovableType. What I'm talking about is:

  • If the post was posted today, it will put Today.
  • If the post was posted yesterday, it will put Yesterday.
  • Otherwise

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