CSS positioning types always seemed straight forward to me. I thought that since I knew the dictionary definition of absolute, fixed, and relative that I knew how the respective CSS positioning types worked. Yet I continually ran into less than desirable and confusing results – especially when nesting elements within elements. Why? My assumptions about absolute were inaccurate.
Zend_Test: Dealing with Dates
I have been writing a lot of integration tests lately and wanted to share a quick tip about how to deal with datetime and timestamp columns in the table you are testing.
Balancing Best Practices with Rapid Development
Rushing a project is the easiest trap to fall into as a developer. Working fast is a must in today’s marketplace, however foregoing a plan and ignoring best practices will ultimately slow down a project and create more work later. So how does one balance best practices with rapid development? I think the answer is in the question: Balance.
Create The Harness
If there are ever constants with which we must grapple with in the world of engineering, change and challenge figure heavily in the overall equation of the career. It is they that attract the wide eyed and those seeking wonder within the complexities of algorithms, finding beauty in what may…
MySQL Quick Tip
If you need to monitor a MySQL server in order to see what is happening, but you haven’t developed any monitoring solutions you can use this to grab information from the mysql server. How to grab the status and show how many “Com_inserts” are happening every 10 seconds: > mysqladmin…