10 Jun, 2010
Posted by: John Congdon In: Programmer's Mindset
I will try to keep this short.
My Background:I have been programming for 20 years (12 professionally). Grew up on BASIC and PASCAL. And first job was in the old school Q&A database. Needless to say, I started out very procedural. My first web programming started in 1999 with PERL. And I have always had the [...]
I hate knowing the answer to a problem, but taking for ever to implement it. Cacheing is probably one of the most important things I can do to improve a website, and yet it is one of my worst nightmares. It shouldn’t be at all. I have a fear of using outdated data because of [...]
I have been thinking about a way to have isolated machines that I can almost take on and off line very easily. Here are my thoughts and would love feedback on my “solution”.
I am almost thinking about “spinning” the traditional model. I will have my Administrative DB(ADB) in a central place. ADB will be where [...]
16 Dec, 2008
Posted by: John Congdon In: Programmer's Mindset
I was recently trying to offer a cart-level promotion with “Checkout by Amazon” and while looking through their Developer Guide, I became very confused. Their promotion section lead me to believe that I could offer such a discount, but it wasn’t clear at all. I tried googling it, and other research to no avail. [...]
20 Oct, 2008
Posted by: John Congdon In: Bowling| Programmer's Mindset
I have heard many complaints from customers that there are too many products on bowlingball.com that are “Not Available”. When looking at a list of bowling balls or bowling shoes they would see them scattered throughout the list and wouldn’t understand why there were there.
“If they are not available, why do you keep them [...]
Ok, so I somehow I came across a post by Joe Stump from Digg and I have found this “chain letter” type post. I want to participate, so here goes.
How I got started programming:
How old were you when you started programming? I had a real interest (unexplainably) in computers when [...]
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@RonnieS thanks for the kudos. We did the Black Widow Venom quick because of the release date. There will be plenty more to come soon.