I need some help from you, faithful readers (I know there’s at least one of you out there … LOL). I need some inspiration. You see, over the past month, I’ve determined that I’m more happy during the day if I’m coding. When I was putting up my resume website and working [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Way back when I was still in high school (it seems like a lifetime ago), I never would have thought I'd be where I am today. I had it in my head all through high school (I think I was bit by the bug around 6th or 7th grade) that I was going to [...]

I've gotten back into development mode around here. For such a long time now, I just haven't had the energy or ambition to work on my own websites after working on someone else's website for 8 hours a day. I've had things that I've wanted to do, but in the evenings, I just [...]