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Ada Lovelace day 2009 – @LornaJane #ALD09

March 24, 2009 in Personal

Today is Ada Lovelace day and as such, we are prompted to write about someone we admire who is female and is involved in technology. For my Post today I have chosen LornaJane. This stems from many reasons, which over the course of this post I hope to explain.

PHP – Chmod-ed to Windows hell and back

March 10, 2009 in PHP

Today has not been a good day. With various things going wrong, I was please that I had got the file upload code done for a site i’m working on. All I needed to do was make sure that the file had the right permissions and then edit it via GD (via an image editor [...]

MySQL – Conditional Joins

March 7, 2009 in MySQL

For the most part I’ve used many JOINs in my queries since I leartn how to use them and what they were good for, I much prefer to use an Inner Join over the the Implied join of a WHERE statement. For those who haven’t yet learnt about JOINs you might be using an implied [...]

MySQL – Conditional Updates

March 6, 2009 in MySQL

Just a quick blog post in an update related way, Recently i’ve needed to toggle multiple rows in a database from 1 value to 1 of possible 2 values dependant on the contents of a field on the row. I wasn’t sure if this was possible, so i asked in #PHPWomen IRC Channel and the [...]