If you’ve gone through my site, you probably know that I work as a contractor a good part of the time. Because of that I’m exposed to a lot of different technology / libraries. The most recent library has been Google Mapping API. I’ve learned about Markers, Polygons, Points and had the chance to play with some Javascript again. Good times.
Example vs. Tutorial – SEO Magic
After reviewing some Google Webmaster tools reports, I decided to make one tiny change: swap the word “tutorial” for “example” in the title of one of my pages. Result: it worked!
sed – only took me twenty years
It took me twenty years, but I finally used sed
Updated blog engine – beware
So I finally gave in and updated my blog engine. It was (almost) a seamless experience.
Lucene, SOLR, Hadoop and Pig
The next few weeks and months will have me working with new technology from Apache: SOLR, HADOOP, and Pig. Read how I got myself in this mess, and how I hope to get out of it.
Tea Party Minorities – An Odd Duck
Recently, I noticed several new followers on my Twitter account (@dadkind – what else?). What struck me was that they appear to be people of […]
CSS @import : Pseudo Inheritance
It turns out that there is “pseudo inheritance” (my term) possible in CSS. Here’s a quick-n-dirty.
Getting hierarchical (nested) data from DataSets
The other day I was struggling with generating XML data from a database I was working with. After talking with a co-worker, he mentioned using Transact-SQL and the “For XML Explicit” options related to a query. So I looked at how to accomplish this task using the .NET Framework.
A JavascriptSerializer twist
I had some trouble parsing some JSON text using JavascriptSerializer class. Here is some code that I used to parse the troublesome text.