http://www.forthecode.org Software Engineering, Personal Info and more. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:06:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Its true, I've committed myself to learning Japanese Kanji. Some of you might be saying "It's about time", others might say "Why bother?". Well, I've been in school full-time for the past 2 years all while working 50+ hours a week. So time has been scarce - and until ... http://www.forthecode.org/2008/07/07/169-kanji-and-growing/ So this is my first official post about the site. It was a "for-fun" project that is here to stay. What can I say, I like it =) This is a different concept - and if it has already been done before, well it probably hasn't been done in ... http://www.forthecode.org/2008/06/26/wetnotecom-a-brush-with-encryption/ This is just a reply to a forum post I made some time ago. Thought it wise to save it here, lest I forget where it was at =) Their response is what I was expecting - all db resources in the web world are generally destroyed between ... http://www.forthecode.org/2008/02/03/system-i-sql-record-locks-and-php/ Below is a link to a presentation I gave early in 2007. My fellow RPG developer's were just starting to get interested in PHP and I thought it wise to distinguish the differences between PHP / RPG / and HTML. I think it helped them out before they took their ... http://www.forthecode.org/2007/10/16/html-and-php-the-basics/ I want to point out a potential "gotcha" to anyone moving from the traditional LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack to PHP on the IBM System i + DB2 (is there an acronym for that yet? iADP?). PHP loves MySQL... so much so that MySQL has always received favorable treatment. Although ... http://www.forthecode.org/2007/10/15/db2-resources-overhead/ Presentations are part of my weekly routine, so it seems. Many of these are geared toward different levels of PHP + HTML experience. I plan on posting these here with a brief description of each as time goes by. This small group of slides is aimed at helping the ... http://www.forthecode.org/2007/10/15/quick-setup-of-php/ I just wanted to point out that on my other blog ForTheCode.com (.com!) I recently posted about refactoring. Although it should have been on this site, its going to stay there for now - so as not to duplicate my efforts... A snippet: "Refactoring is a process of redesign that prevents ... http://www.forthecode.org/2007/10/14/refactoring-vital-to-software-engineering/