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Time Management SQL Script

Hope everyone had a good Turkey Day.
I finished the SQL for the TMC. Creates the tables and stored procs and creates an admin user.
Don’t be shy to ask questions.
Link to file.

Zip proximity search

Gotta love the internet and the fates, those sly greek chicas.
A few days ago I came across some one’s blog posting about his articles in the Oct CFDJ. I can’t remember where I saw that, but I did download the PDF version. I didn’t read it at that time, but I scanned the cover.
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CSS

I’ve never been a big fan of CSS. No real reason, it just seemed like such a PITA. And it is really, let’s be honest.
BUT
I’m working on a site for a client and they want it mostly CSS. More search engine friendly and all. I know enough CSS to fill a shot glass. Prefer other [...]

Search Engine Friendliness

A client of my client recently had me make their site Search Engine friendly. Was quite an interesting project. I had never really looked into SEO, and SES stuff before. Gave me a chance to get a little insight into how the search engines work in relation to dynamic sites.
We used <cf_fake_url> to accomplish the [...]

Time Management & Invoicing

Long ago in a galaxy far, far away I worked on a project for an employer. They wanted some way for us developers (and eventually QA, and such) to track our time. The reason was two fold; see what we were spending our time on, and capitalize any new development in order to manage costs.
Well [...]

Scope Creep! I damn near killed her!

There really should be fines for those who indulge in either scope creep or over engineering a solution. I’m all for delivering a quality product, obviously. I’m a professional. However, delivering an over engineered solution that solves problems that people aren’t having, late, is not cool. In my experience users would rather have what they [...]

My version of Captcha

Rob Brooks Bilson has an interesting post on how CFX_captcha is (or was at the time of his post) is proving to be tough to beat.
For those (are there any) that don’t know, captcha systems are those annoying little things that ask us to type in some random string of letters and numbers.
As Rob points [...]