Upgrades and Data Constraints (The hidden TextArea trick)

Oh, the joys of updating or upgrading software that is not of your own work. Makes you truly realize how lucky you are for all that education you slept through in college. Occasionally, I’ll get projects both inside and outside of work to add functionality to an existing application, sometimes without there being an internal [...]

Posted on January 25, 2010 at 2:13 pm by John · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Antiobjects

“The notion of antiobjects is a computational metaphor useful to conceptualize and solve hard problems by swapping computational foreground and background. Similar to optical illusions based on potential confusion of background versus foreground perceptions, antiobjects are the inverse of what we perceive to be the computational objects.” – (Wikipedia) Weird concept, but once you wrap [...]

Posted on December 7, 2009 at 1:54 pm by John · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Writing and Programming

So, day three of the blog starts, and I am still writing. Weee! Programming. Ahh my passion. One of these days I’d like to branch out and try other types of development, but for right now I’m stuck inside a little box called PowerSchool. I think there are many pros and cons to this web [...]

Posted on December 4, 2009 at 9:24 am by John · Permalink · Leave a comment
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