WordPress post showing wrong author

September 11, 2008

I ran into an annoying problem with WordPress recently. The problem was with the author for each of my posts. I wrote several posts with no troubles; the posts were showing me as the author as expected.  However, after adding a new user account to the blog, all my posts started showing up with the [...]

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Had a great time at Lone Star Ruby Conference

September 8, 2008

We really had a great time at the Lone Star Ruby Conference this past weekend. I’ve been to a number of conferences in the past for other technologies or programming languages, but this one really stands out for a number of reasons. It was not over-commercialized with tons of vendors trying to sell you something [...]

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Lone Star Ruby Conference

September 1, 2008

Shannon and I are getting pretty excited about the upcoming conference this weekend. We’re both fairly new to Ruby and look forward to the learning opportunities. We hope to meet some new friends there who are just as excited about Ruby as we are. If you were at the conference as well and reading this [...]

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New Cards Arrived Today

August 27, 2008

Look what the FedEx guy brought today. Updated business cards with our new logo. My talented sister-in-law took our logo and made this nice design. We’re quite pleased with the look.

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Web Training

August 27, 2008

Technology used: PHP SQL – (MySQL database) Linux CRON for scheduling email notifications Smarty template engine for page views (www.smarty.net) Selenium for testing HTML, CSS, Javascript for presentation Subversion version control system The client, Little Giant Steps, wanted to adapt their web training application. The original application was for clients who had received a personal [...]

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Individualized Web Training

August 26, 2008

Technology used: PHP SQL – (MySQL database) Smarty template engine for page views (www.smarty.net) Selenium for testing HTML, CSS, Javascript for presentation Subversion version control system This organization, Little Giant Steps, wanted to create an online training site for the parents of the children they work with. The concept was to create a customized training [...]

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Online Photo Album

August 25, 2008

Technology used: PHP HTML SQL – (MySQL database) Back in 2001, before Picasa and Flickr were around, we wanted to have a way to easily share our photos with family and friends. We created an application that would allow users to create albums and chapters, add photos to chapters, re-order the photos, add descriptions to [...]

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A whole new look for GYROtechie.com

July 23, 2008

We’re working on a whole new look for our site. As a web application developer I spend a whole lot of time working on web sites for other folks but often end up neglecting my own. So we’re trying to spruce things up a bit for you.

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