Archive for the ‘Other’ Category
Forget the iPad. This looks amazing!
Friday, March 5th, 2010
This looks quite amazing. I’m becoming more and more impressed with what Microsoft is putting out there. Windows 7… Their new phone OS looks pretty interesting… and now this. I could totally use this every day.
Forget the iPad. This looks amazing!
Friday, March 5th, 2010
This looks quite amazing. I’m becoming more and more impressed with what Microsoft is putting out there. Windows 7… Their new phone OS looks pretty interesting… and now this. I could totally use this every day.
Great article on managing/using hierarchical data in an database
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
In working on building my own content management system, I’ve been learning about various ways to implement storage of the content in a database. This is a great article I found. Check it out.
Database Row Sort Order Question
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
To sort content in a hierarchy i have rows that have a sort_order column, like the following list.
id, title, sort_order
1, page a, 0
2, page b, 1
3, page c, 2
4, page d, 3
5, page e, 4
My question is when changing the order or deleting content, is it best to keep the sort_order clean without gaps in [...]
Working on my site…
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Well… finally decided to start working on cleaning up my site and the templates and everything. Be patient..
Score card management for my pre golf app
Monday, August 24th, 2009
I’ve finally got almost all the basic score card functionality finished. You can now manage all the cards in the database. Delete them… Load an old one to edit and view… create/start a new card.
Along with that I also added a drop down panel when you tap the Score Card header to allow you to [...]
First Real Pre/webOS Golf App Test
Friday, August 21st, 2009
Well.. I played 18 holes today with a bunch of friends and was able to give my app a thorough usability test. I’ve added a couple modifications to the score entry screen now because of it.
A user can now cycle through the holes and players (if there is more than one) from the score entry [...]
Interesting marketing by Sprint for their NOW network and the Palm pre
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Doing some browsing as I’m waiting impatiently for next weeks release of the Palm pre I came across Sprints marketing site for their NOW network and the Palm pre. Interesting idea. Here is their custom widget one can post on their own site.
Converting Lat/Long to/from stuff
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
I’ve had a “fun” couple days trying to figure out how to convert Lat/Long both to and from pixel x/y values. It took me a lot longer than I thought it would. I will post some code in another post, when I’ve had a chance to clean it up and make sure it [...]