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I Really Want to Learn How to Write… Good… uh, Well…

By on Sunday, March 31st, 2013 | No Comments

A Writing Kind of Day

I was waiting for a haircut yesterday at SportClips in Eagle. I read through all the latest Facebook posts available  on my phone, then I changed the setting to show “a week” in stead of 3 days, and read through all the rest of them. Still bored. So, I picked up an issue of Eagle magazine and started flipping through the pages.

The thought, “Why can’t I write like that?” popped into my mind. The words and phrases just seemed to flow together, and in some cases, jumped off the page. The contributors to the magazine were far more adept at slinging words around than I.

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The Walking Dead: Merle, We Hardly Knew Ya

By on Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 | No Comments

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SPOILERS. This is one of the things I love about The Walking Dead – I never know what’s coming next . It’s simply nothing like other series I’ve watched in the past. Most shows “telegraph” what’s coming up next, and more often than not I know where the plot is going long before it gets there. Not with Walking Dead however. I expected Merle to continue being the show’s anti-protagonist for quite awhile, and I was wrong. DEAD wrong.

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Cool preg_replace Solution

By on Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 | No Comments

A two-dimensional array stored as a one-dimens...

The situation: Read a product description from a product database.

The problem: The block of text for the product description in the comma delimited file is not formatted, and in fact looks stripped of whatever formatting it had previously. Chunks of text squished together like “changes.Special” (no space after the period), and “Disc BrakeHeadset” (obviously missing a space between Brake and Headset).

I surmised that the missing spaces were previously line breaks (\n or <br>). If a scan/replace function had been used and the line break characters replaced with a null value, it would fit the puzzle perfectly.

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The Walking Dead: The “Andrea”sode

By on Monday, March 18th, 2013 | No Comments

Laurie Holden Andrea The Walking Dead

This reminded me a bit of what used to happen with Star Trek: The Next Generation. Every so often the writers would create and episode that centered around a specific character – like a “Warf”isode, or a “Data”sode.

Episode 14: “Prey”

In this episode, we follow Andrea‘s actions as she tries to tries to estrange herself from “the Guv’na”.

It was interesting that they started the episode with a flashback to when Andrea and Michonne were on the road with Michonne’s “zombie pets”. Andrea broached the question whether Michonne knew the pets prior to the apocalypse, which seemed to bother Michonne for some reason. Apparently, Michonne knew the pets previously, but did not like them. Perhaps they were family, but had a criminal history?

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Google is Not “Magic”

By on Saturday, March 16th, 2013 | No Comments

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A few recent posts by Becker at Source-Wave.com have confirmed my faith that at least some of the internet gurus are not complete idiots. Becker, a few others like Jon Leger, “get it” – Google is not spying on you with a all-seeing crystal ball. I know, I’m a programmer, and some of the rumors surrounding the “power” of Google and SEO/IM just blows my mind.

Becker explained it best, I think – Google has a set of metrics (another term for measurements) that they use to rank sites. If you fit into a good metric, you get points. If you fit into a bad metric, you lose points. It’s as simple as that.

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