In web design and development, I found the perfect outlet to utilize my attention to small details as well as my interest in being part of a team creating and developing clean and sophisticated code behind beautiful sites. I am fascinated with the speed technology changes; I am connected vias blogs & social media and yet I don't feel too obsessed to be plugged in ALL the time. I enjoy both working on site and off, and love the flexibility and challenges of a career constantly moving.

With a background including a career as a baker and an architectural photographer, I have always had a passion for design and an attention to details, no matter how small. Born in Pomona, CA, I slowly moved north over the years, attracted to the wilderness, fresh air and city life. When I am not knee deep in code, I can be found hiking, camping, appreciating some local mirco brews or getting my passport stamped by a gruff looking guard who speaks little English. I enjoy music, films, and photography as well as just relaxing and watching the game.

Friday, February 13th, 2015

If an element contains a string

I had a question today if I could change the background color if an element contained a string. I knew I could with js, but I need to do a little research.

I found methods of completing this.

indexOf

The indexOf() method returns the position of the first occurrence of a specified value in a string.
This method returns -1 if the value to search for never occurs.
indexOf is case sensitive.

:contains

The :contains() selector selects elements containing the specified string.
The string can be contained directly in the element as text, or in a child element.
This is mostly used together with another selector to select the elements containing the text in a group (like in the example above).
:contains is case sensitive.

if ($('#someId').text().indexOf("Gene") != -1)
{
  $('body').css( "background-color", "blue" );   
}

$( "#someId:contains('Gene')" ).css( "background-color", "blue" ); 

Tuesday, September 16th, 2014

Jillion is NaN

OK, who hasn’t heard someone referring to Jillion as a very large number. Today on the bus my wife was telling me that something was a jillion times bigger. Well, I can’t remember what our conversion was, but I know I kept telling her that Jillion is not a real number. Jillion is often used when the number is so large a real number can’t be used. I have listed below real names of large numbers and their short scale.

var Million = 10e6, /* 1,000,000 */
	Billion = 10e9, /* 1,000,000,000 */
	Trillion = 10e12, /* 1,000,000,000,000 */
	Quadrillion = 10e15, /* 1,000,000,000,000,000 */
	Quintillion = 10e18, /* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 */
	Sextillion = 10e21, /* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 */
	Septillion = 10e24, /* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 */
	Octillion = 10e27, /* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 */
	Nonillion = 10e30, /* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 */
	Decillion = 10e33, /* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 */
	Undecillion = 10e36, /* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 */
	Duodecillion = 10e39, /* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 */
	Tredecillion = 10e42, /* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 */
	Quattuordecillion = 10e45 ,/* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 */
	Quindecillion = 10e48, /* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 */
	Sexdecillion = 10e51, /* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 */
	Septendecillion = 10e54, /* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 */
	Octodecillion = 10e57, /* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 */
	Novemdecillion = 10e60, /* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 */
	Vigintillion = 10e63; /* 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 */

Friday, November 1st, 2013

A function

A function is a block of statements that can be used in a file.
I will create a function to change the color of my notes.

function colorMyNotes() {
    var i;
    var postItNoteColors = [
        '#FCF0AD', '#E9E74A', '#EE5E9F', '#FFDD2A', '#F59DB9', '#F9A55B', '#D0E17D', '#36A9CE', '#EF5AA1', '#AE86BC', '#FFDF25', '#56C4E8', '#D0E068', '#CD9EC0', '#ED839D', '#FFE476', '#CDDD73', '#F35F6D', '#FAA457', '#35BEB7', '#D189B9', '#99C7BC', '#89B18C', '#738FA7', '#8A8FA3', '#82ACB8', '#F9D6AC', '#E9B561', '#E89132', '#DA7527', '#DEAC2F', '#BAB7A9', '#BFB4AF', '#CDC4C1', '#CFB69E', '#D0AD87'];
    var i = 1;
    $('.col-md-4').each(function() {
        $(this).css('background-color', postItNoteColors[i]);
        i = (i + 1) % postItNoteColors.length;
    });
}
colorMyNotes();

The function works, however the color is always the same and it would be nice if it was random. Next, create an array that will randomize the color.

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013

Get Unix timestamp for a date

I needed to compare an event date in Expression Engine to the current date, but the time was not in a unix timestamp. So, I used PHP and converted the time given, to unix timestamp with the PHP functions date() and strtotime().

<?php 
      $time = ( date("g:i a", strtotime("{start_time} UTC"))); 
      $unix = (strtotime('{start_day}-{start_month}-{start_year}'.$time)).'000'; 	  
?>

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

IS NULL

How do you query results for data in column that is NULL?

SELECT * FROM TABLE 
WHERE COLUMN IS NULL

NULL is used for data that is unknown and not zero or empty.

Tuesday, January 1st, 2013

Happy New Year 2013

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Friday, June 15th, 2012

Unix Time

A few weeks ago I was given the task to close a program on a server, but we had know idea when the last user logged into the program. The server is Linux and records time as milliseconds since January 01, 1970. This Epoch is known as Unix Time the date is the beginning of time according to Unix. This measure of time is recorded as int32. The max value of a 32 bit integer is 2147483647. So the end of time will be January 19, 2038, until this reference date is recorded as int64.

The last log in was: 1299611945 March 08, 2011 11:19:05 AM. The program now can be removed.

Here is a link to a good Epoch Converter www.epochconverter.com/

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Foo

What is Foo? Foo is from Foobar which is from a military acronym FUBAR. Developers use the word “Foo” sometimes as a placeholder for variables. The word “Bar” is also used as a placeholder for variables.

if(foo == "something"){
 alert(foo);
}else{
}

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