I'd explain it to you, but your brain would explode.
Posted Jun 26th, 2009 by Rich
Whoever made the decision that MYSQL UPDATE’s can only be done one row at a time needs shooting. With INSERT you can insert multiple rows, why not the same for UPDATE?
As you may guess I’m trying to optimise some updates, currently 128 separate ones, into something a lot smaller. I think I can do it [...]
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Posted Jun 6th, 2009 by Rich
Yes you heard me – they charge to send an email. They also make it incredibly annoying when trying to check for tickets. You fill in one form, then you have to fill in another (and thus breaking site functionality) with a captcha (don’t they know they are worthless these days?).
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Posted Mar 6th, 2009 by Rich
I’m using PunBB 1.3 for the Irish Discworld Convention I decided to install the official toolbar, which you can see in use on that site, for adding bbcode to posts. If you test it out you can see that it doesn’t function as well as it could. It is also still present if javascript is [...]
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Posted Mar 4th, 2009 by Rich
Well almost everything. I quoted 6 – 8 weeks for a project and finished it within about 4 days. The testing on the other hand took longer, but that, for once, wasn’t my fault. It took ages to get an account with Payson – mainly because I don’t know Swedish! Once the testing was actually [...]
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Posted Jan 22nd, 2009 by Rich
Yep it’s been one of those days again.
A user found a bug in eShop, which usually isn’t a problem to fix but this time it uncovered another issue that had to be fixed. That then took 4 hours, for what should have been a quick 30 minute job.
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Posted Jan 10th, 2009 by Rich
I appear to have spent the last few months developing extensions for forums. Specifically FluxBB and PunBB. Both forums are based on the same code but are slowly beginning to diverge. FluxBB developers have decided to delay their release cycle and add more features and take the time to tidy things up. PunBB developers have [...]
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