When I decided to flip from using Mango Blog to using WordPress, I didn’t really find any guides or articles talking about the process, so I thought I’d share what I did in case anyone else decides to make the same move, especially with Mango seemingly abandoned. I was on […]
Every year I set goals for myself across various areas of my personal life as targets to try to accomplish during the year, be they big or small. 2016 is no exception, so it’s time to set out my goals for this year!
I finally got off my tush and finished the switch of ColdFusion Beyond to its new name, Eclectic Thoughts, and flipped from Mango Blog to Word Press as my CMS. I’ll do a post about that conversion in the future for anyone else looking to do the switch. I’m still […]
I needed to run a query to find out how many people in our user table had an email address on a domain within a set list from another table. Normally, I might have written a PHP script for this, pulling users that matched a loose LIKE statement of email_address […]
The current application I'm working on has multiple "wizards", i.e. multi page forms that store data between the pages, allow moving back and forth, and so on. These wizards have some things in common, so I have a base controller their individual controllers all extend to access that common functionality, […]
The new site name is registered and the domain pointing here, for now. Going back to my web "roots", the site will be renamed to Eclectic Thoughts with the URL eclectic-thoughts.com (the URL without the dash was taken). I already mentioned in the last post how my first site is […]
Howdy ho! Me again with another random “yes, I’m still alive” check in. Sorry for the continued long stretches without posts. I have a crap ton of stuff I keep meaning to post about, but I’m also significantly behind on a major project at work so it’s eating most of […]
With our Mach-II apps, I had a series of RegEx Search/Replaces in Dreamweaver that let me quickly turn a list of variables into the various basic components of a bean, gateway, function arguments, etc. For example, this one does all the properties in a bean. So if I had a variable […]
As I mentioned previously, I've been learning WordPress stuff over the last few weeks for a client. Recently we discovered her RSS feed wasn't working in some checkers, so I checked it and found that the resulting XML had indention before the first few lines. Now, personally I think its […]
You may have heard recently that Psy's "Gangum Style" video "broke" YouTube due to the database using an signed integer that was 32 bits, never expecting a single video to ger more than 2.147 trillon views. So they upped it to a 64 bit integer. interestingly enough, they still left […]