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Archive for December, 2006

My goals as a web-developer

6th Dec 2006

You know when you meet someone for the first time and they always ask that stock-standard question “So, what do you do with yourself?“. My usual response to that question is “I’m a web-developer“. But, it’s the next statement that I love the most: “Oh, REALLY???, My son/daughter/nephew/niece/friend is into computers!” - which is also around the time that people stop asking me questions, ’cause they have no idea what to ask next.

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Geo tagging

6th Dec 2006

Just another amusing little website, that produced for me this little bundle of joy:

Geotagging

Check it out!

Excel is not a database

5th Dec 2006

Oh boy… The amount of times we get sent an excel spreadsheet to import into a MySQL database is just ridiculous… Thankfully, phpMyAdmin makes this task pretty easy. We just have to check the integrity of the file and match up the fields correctly, but what really gets me is that people think spreadsheets are a great way to store data???

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