Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

PHP Objects and Sessions

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

We stumbled across an interesting issue at work today with the Zend Framework and objects.  We're working on a filter for a series of reports that carries over from page to page and in the process of development, decided it would be best to move this from page to page ...

Google really rules my life.

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

I think I've made mention before just how much Google has changed my life. So many times during the day a quick command-K or ctrl-K gets me any of the data I'm looking for. It's odd to see myself search Google versus other users, it seems as if ...

Fun with SQL and in line queries

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

So I've grown to not like the coding style of the guy before me at all. Some of his methods are quite, recursive and hellish when it comes to SQL. Several times, the easy way was taken rather than the correct way. To give you a bit ...

Hacking at work for fun and a paycheck

Monday, July 16th, 2007

So at the new job we have a few offices in different locations of country.  For example, next week I'm heading to Tennessee to experience the call center application I'm working on first hand.   I had just relocated one of our databases from the Michigan office to our sql server ...

Windows Vista and terminal service

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

I actually stumbled across this a few days ago at work.  While trying to remote desktop into our terminal server,  I kept experiencing some odd slowdowns as if the connection was intermittently working.  The odd thing, is I had no issues while typing in my password or typing in a ...

MSSQL to MySQL migration

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Well today I start the initial steps of migrating our MSSQL databases to MySQL.  One of the first tasks here at the new job was to determine where our MSSQL licensing was at.  We're currently running a version of MSSQL 2000 Personal edition so we either need to migrate or ...