Newsletter Stats from the Pencilneck CMS
So our CMS, the Pencilneck CMS includes a email newsletter management system. With a little time between finishing one project & starting the next, I...
Vancouver Foodbank Tweetup Fundraiser - Dec 2 @ Library Square Public House
Let's raise some money for the Vancouver Food Bank! This year, more than ever, the Food Bank needs our help - more people need their services, and...
Learning how to make Mistakes
Liam is a very cautious, meticulous child. Bright, but very sensitive. He's, probably as a result, incredibly hard on himself. He internalizes everything....
Using fonts with CFImage
One of the more useful bits of ColdFusion (version 8 and above) is the ability to dynamically write text as an image. As you can imagine, there are nearly...
Last Night's Dream (too much media!)
So last night, in my dream, I was talking with Jason Fried (of 37 Signals, whom I do not know, but just read an article about) about BSG. He was...
SQL Data conundrum - please help!
So, I need to chart this "change over time" graph. And I feel like it should be really easy, but it's totally breaking my brain how to write the query to...
15 years of web development! (Bloor & Bedford)
I was reading Mark Pilgrim's Post on the history of the <img> tag & realized that yesterday (November 1st) marks the 15th anniversary of the...
VanCity, I'm so tired of you
I've been a loyal VanCity customer since I moved to Vancouver in the mid-90's. I wanted a local bank whose values seemed to match my own politics. I was...
Better redirection
For sites powered by the Pencilneck CMS, we've for ages and ages had what we called "Friendly URLs". These are common across CMS's, blogs, etc (some...
City-owned fibre: new revenue stream?
I was reading this article on Ars Technica about the town of Monticello, MN, who had tried to build its own 50Mbs fibre network after TDS (the local cable...