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Out of sure curiosity I wanted to take a stab at making a screencast, like some others have. I also have been wanting to add a polling system to my other site gonecksgo.com. So why not combine the two. Read the rest of this entry »

In case you were unaware, I’m a huge fan of TextMate for many reasons, one of which I’ll get into here — in case you couldnt’ tell by the title. Of course, the reason/tip is using regex in your search and replace.

To start this off, I haven’t read the TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac book and this tip is probably covered quite well in it. Regardless, let’s get on with the tip shall we. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, it’s taken me many moons to get my ass in gear and put together a portfolio but I’ve finally done it. From now on, provided I make sure to keep it up to date, examples of my work can be seen on my portfolio page.
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A short while ago I started looking into the integration between TextMate, simply the best Mac text editor in my opinion, and MySQL. TextMate has many built-in functions that will allow you to run MySQL queries right from the TextMate window, saving you from having to switch between either the Terminal or local install of phpMyAdmin and TextMate (I’ll use TM from here on). My problem was that each time I tried to run a query from TM, it couldn’t find my install of MySQL. Here’s how I solved the problem.
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So, today I wake up all happy and ready for some work. Things are going well, I’ve finished reading my blogs, checked my email, everything is in order for a good day.

Then a friend/client asks for their site to be updated. I make the update only to find that something has killed my upload form on that site. After futzing around with it for well over 4 hours and getting nowhere I make a decision that may bite me in the ass later. An hour after that things are working again.

Fast forward an hour or two when I decide to check up on another form. This time a contact form that was an experiment in functions for me. It took me waaaay to long to figure out how to get it to work the first time only to realize that I had not actually gotten it to work. The form was giving out the proper errors if the required fields were not filled out but it would not send the email if the form was filled out correctly. After another 3 hours of messing around I’m still no better off than I was before. Read the rest of this entry »