After I lost my job back in October, I bought a domain for my resume (it’s my full name). I wanted to put my resume online so I could point potential employers to it, and I didn’t want to put it on a subdomain of this domain (that just didn’t sound professional … resume.hightechredneckwoman.com? Nope.). As of right now, it has my resume, my portfolio, background info, a letter of recommendation, and a contact  […]

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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 on the redesign of this site, I was definitely in a better mood. On days where I’m not coding, it’s not good. I’m  […]

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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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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 so, I ran into a little  […]

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