John Congdon

Archive for June, 2008

16 Jun, 2008

SVN - Subversion Version Control

Posted by: John Congdon In: Technology

I am a little annoyed with myself.  When I first started at bowlingball.com I made it a point to rewrite their code and use a version control system.  SVN was the one I chose over CVS.  I am not sure why I made this decision, but through the research I did, it was the right [...]

16 Jun, 2008

Firefox 3 Download Day 6/17/2008

Posted by: admin In: Latest Tech

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 is going to be Mozilla’s Official Download Day.
Firefox wants to set the world record for the number of downloads in a single day by having everyone upgrade to Firefox 3 on the same day.
Want to know more, checkout Spread Firefox.

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05 Jun, 2008

Woopra.com, Watch Your Internet Traffic Live

Posted by: admin In: Latest Tech

Woopra.com is a service that combines web analytic data like Google Analytics in a real time fashion. What’s more is they offer some really interesting features.
We all know that we can monitor traffic in real time by watching our web server logs. However the average user doesn’t necessarily understand the information [...]

04 Jun, 2008

Calculating This Day Last Year in PHP

Posted by: admin In: PHP Snippets

Have you ever wanted to know what the date was last year on this day?
Example: You want to compare sales from Wednesday of this year to the same Wednesday of last year. There is a very simple solution in PHP.
[code]function ThisDateLastYear($date_in) { // date_in = input date in form of [...]

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03 Jun, 2008

The Twitter Explosion

Posted by: admin In: Latest Tech

Twitter has seem to come on to the tech stage very strongly. However, will it be for the masses?
It seems that everyone that I follow is very much in the tech genre. They get it, use it, and live it.
The people in my everyday life that I try to explain it end up [...]

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I am a web programmer that specialized in E-Commerce, SEO, and Warehousing.

I currently work for bowlingball.com as the lead programmer. I am constantly working to make this website the premier website in the bowling industry, with a much bigger vision for the future.