A few years ago, I had hit something of a professional rut. I wanted to break away, free from corporate employment and into the righteous world of contracting. I had developed my server-side skills to expert levels, but I had not worked with a company that had a design team as dedicated and high-reaching as ( Read more... )

Steven Ostrowski, director of corporate communications for industry association CompTIA, says technology hiring is on the upswing. Two demographic trends -- an aging US workforce and a waning interest in IT careers -- are leading to a shortage of IT workers, he says. “As for the types of jobs most in demand, anyone with security credentials is ( Read more... )

I spent my evening on the 17th floor of the Hyatt Regency, as the singular Tarot Card Reader of the Goodwill Halloween Ball. The room I was in had an incredible view of the river and the city, but I was on the far side from the windows and spent my evening doing my table-side improv act with the seventy-eight graphic icons of the Rider-Waite deck ( Read more... )

Major milestone achieved! Big project now live ( Read more... )

My project has come to a screeching halt. Less a train wreck than a roadblock, but it's kept my progress back all week. For you nay-sayers, it's not yet time to say, "I told you so!" as I hold out hope we can work out the problems. Eventually.I came to the realization sometime early last week that the software integration guy I've been dealing with ( Read more... )

( Phony behavior )

Until now, my experience with PHP is that I've been well enough behind the curve that anything I needed to do had already been largely integrated into PHP itself ( Read more... )

strstr



(PHP 4, PHP 5)

strstr - Find first occurrence of a string i
Description
string strstr ( string $haystack, string $needle ) ii

Returns part of haystack string from the first occurrence of needle to the end of haystack.

If needle is not found, returns FALSE.

If needle is not a string, it is converted to an integer and applied as the ordinal ( Read more... )

Today was good. There was lots of time before Z's gym class, so we explored Garrison Park. I was impressed with how wonderfully shady it all is, and wondered what it was like on warm Sunday afternoons ( Read more... )

• I've had several conversations with friends lately who say, "You must be busy, you're not posting on LJ anymore." The fact is that I have been pretty busy, and when I'm not working, I don't always want to spend extra time on the computer. I've logged some pretty long days. By the end of the day, my eyes are pretty fuzzy and sometimes my head hurts ( Read more... )