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hollystyles in a Nutshell
middle-aged underpaid hacker, married(happily so far) two sprogs (both girlies)
I'm a self taught developer, my first computer was a Texas Instruments 99A with a whopping 16k of RAM. I was hooked from the beginning.
I'm a self taught developer, my first computer was a Texas Instruments 99A with a whopping 16k of RAM. I was hooked from the beginning.
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All Recent Tags It occurred to me today (through an experience I shall describe shortly) how when using a computer; what starts out as a simple task; can often become a super-human effort of will as one thing leads to another. Example: I was randomly reading the internet and I stumbled upon GME (Google Mashup...
Read More | Jun 1st, 2007
Blog blog bloggity blog. This blog is my second attempt at blogging I had one before at blogspirit but I ditched that, I don't know if they're still going. Anyway I am now trying out EBlogger over at Google, check it out. The interface is nice and slick and the templates are good too. You get to...
Read More | May 18th, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: May 18th, 2007
Sometimes you find priceless little nuggets of knowledge precisely when you aren't looking for them. Perusing Sql Server books on line I stumbled across the STR() funtion which basically converts any numeric data into a character string. For years I have been typing cast(<someNumericColumn> as...
Read More | Apr 5th, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Aug 27th, 2008
Dr Hanibal eat your heart out (pun intended)
The universe as we currently understand it is made up of a finite number of atomic elements that mixed together in various ways make up all the wonderful things in it. We as humans are no exception made up largely of carbon atoms.
Now when you are...
Read More | Mar 30th, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Mar 30th, 2007
I'm sitting at my workstation, I should be coding some fixes to a website project, but I'm surfing DaniWeb instead. It has been on my mind to add some entries to my blog for months, but I always seem to be too busy, or I just can't think of anything to write.
I read a book by Joe Spolskey...
Read More | Feb 22nd, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Jul 30th, 2007
I got a little heavy handed in a thread this week, I do have a nasty streak of superiority that comes out sometimes in my posts and I'm normally a laid back relaxed kind of guy, but it's hard to keep your cool when you are reading that 1000th post “Please give me code for this, I want to set-up...
Read More | Jul 26th, 2006 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Aug 5th, 2006
About a million years ago Homo-Erectus mastered the grunt. In the centuries since, human communication has blossomed to a level of staggering complexity and refinement. Since the mastery of the spoken word has come drums, smoke signals, beacons, flags, semaphore and….(crescendo) carrier pigeon !...
Read More | Jul 12th, 2006
I don’t know about you but I’m a keyboard kind a guy, and I use my mouse for scrolling web pages and that’s about it. Well this morning I was editing this very blog, and I was using the keyboard editing shortcut CTRL+LeftCursor to move the cursor one word at a time when suddenly…..My entire...
Read More | Jul 11th, 2006
