Ok, I’ve been doing all sorts of things with WordPress for a while now, but oddly enough, I never actually wrote a plugin (although, in retrospect, I did a lot of template hacks that probably would have been easier to do as plugins). Anyway, I needed a plugin for a blog I was working on [...]
Read MoreDisclaimer: This is one of those semi-selfish posts, where I need to perform a task that I do only once in a while. So, to save myself from having to search these steps every time, I’m documenting it here. I hope someone else will find this useful as well. Recently, I decided to upgrade the [...]
Read MoreA bunch of folks were asking me what FounderFuel is, and I’ve tried to explain what a StartUp accelerator/incubator is. Here’s a nice little promo video on what FounderFuel is all about.
This is a great ad. It says a lot about our impressions, our fears and prejudices. A whole paper could be written on why some folks left and the body language of the couples coming in. The ending is uplifting too.
Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve had a professional blog, (back when I was working for Terra Soft and managing YDL.net in fact) and my own website was worse than terrible. It’s ironic, because I was too busy building medium and large web systems for universities, SMBs and ISPs to actually keep my own [...]
Read MoreI had a problem that I needed to solve recently, and the most elegant way to do this was with a stored procedure. However, the procedure needed to return 2 columns – an index id and a sort order. One way to tackle this is to have the plperl function called by a wrapping plpgsql [...]
Read MoreOk, this is a purely selfish post. I have to do this rarely enough that every time I do, I have to look it up. I could put this somewhere, perhaps in my little bag of tricks called ‘you should remember this’. Unfortunately, I don’t have that bag, and I’ll never remember it. So, hopefully [...]
Read MoreOn Monday, my ‘net, phone and cable – all provided by the same company – were all knocked out by a big fire that destroyed 2 fairly popular bar/restaurants 2 blocks away (‘A’ is my place, ‘B’ is fire) from my place. I live in a part of Montréal called ‘the plateau’, which is a [...]
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