I can’t believe that I didn’t know about ezSQL for this long. It would have saved me hours of work and lots of hair that I pulled… mostly because of jumble mess of a code that I wrote in the past. I am working with Lahman database and Japanese Baseball Database installed on my Mac’s [...]
I love Baseball-Reference.com. I mean, who doesn’t love Baseball-Reference.com, it is one of the best things on earth, besides beer and baseball. I think I look something up in that site everytime I think about baseball – be it stats, ages, history, past results… I knew that the data that power that site is available [...]
Here it is. Look ma! No JavaScript, no image. Don’t get me wrong, I love JavaScript. But in order to have “fluid height” I am using iframe. Resize the window, and it should retain the 4:3 ratio. How is this done? Post I did last week, Harvard among sites going responsive, css3 animation. (Articles I [...]
The word “hack”, means “Cut with rough or heavy blows” and some negative connotation (“A writer or journalist producing dull, unoriginal work: a hack scriptwriter.”, but I like urban dictionary’s definition: Hack v. 1. To program a computer in a clever, virtuosic, and wizardly manner. Ordinary computer jockeys merely write programs; hacking is the domain [...]
Yikes. As I was working on my Ruby on Rails freelance project (called Skqueak.com, it is an awesome app for iPhone, you should check it out if you have time) today, and encountered a head scratcher. While running bundle install, my gem install started failing, like “Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.” and [...]
I am always looking for this same piece of code, so here it is: Usage: $(‘#div’).html(number_format(myNum)); From phpjs Also, padding a single number to doubel number, such as 1 -> 01, 2 -> 02 function pad2(number) { return (number < 10 ? ’0′ : ”) + number; } Sort of related: Bootstrap style select pulldown [...]
I am studying three themes: Bones- I used this to create a site: Tewassa.org/jp. Growth Spark starter file – Saw an presentation by bootsz at WCBOS. Pretty awesome. and _s (underscores) – from maker of thematic, which this blog (daigo.org) use as parent theme. interestingly, _s is a starter file and not the parent theme. [...]
-webkit-transition: all .5s ease-in-out; -moz-transition: all .5s ease-in-out; -o-transition: all .5s ease-in-out; -ms-transition: all .5s ease-in-out; transition: all .5s ease-in-out;
On one of my WordPress blog, I am ditching feedburner url. But I noticed there are a lot of references in my past posts to that URL. Then I found this blog post: 13 Useful WordPress SQL Queries You Wish You Knew Earlier Amazing. All I had to do wasthis: UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = [...]
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