Who I Am
I'm Mitch, and this is my blog. I tend to blow the whole thing up and relaunch using a completely different platform every 90 days or so. You can learn more about me on my social site stuff (see links below) and by reading about me on this here site.
Author Archives: mitchy
Amazing ad by NYC Health Department
I’ve avoided sodas for years now, mainly because I think they taste too sweet – and then as I learned more about high fructose corn syrup and artificial ingredients, I was happy I came to that conclusion in the first … Continue reading
Locked out of your Joomla?
This was just asked on the NYPHP Joomla mailing list, so I thought I’d add it here for folks as a quick cheatsheet. Basically the problem is when you find yourself with a Joomla site and have no idea what … Continue reading
Joomla for blogging
This site has been up in the current incarnation – that would be WordPress – for several months now. That means time to tear it up and do something different. Since I’ve been bemoaning the sorry state of Joomla as … Continue reading
And the vaccination debate heats up some more
Wow, reading up on the arguments between the pro-vaccination folks and the anti-vaccination folks, interspersed with the folks that just want to bring some common sense into the matter, has become a time consuming task. Here’s a great article titled … Continue reading
Are you naive? Good.
In an earlier conversation today, a friend and confidant said (somewhat in exasperation), “You are too smart to really be this naive. You’re deliberately being naive, aren’t you?” At the time I presumed it was a sort of chiding, backhanded … Continue reading
PHP Frameworks Explained
So there’s all this hubbub about PHP frameworks, and heated debate over which one is the one true framework to rule them all. And you wondered, “So what is all the fuss about, is there really one framework that solves … Continue reading
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Cat runs over car
Really just testing the iPhone app for wordpress. Can I add a picture? Let’s find out:
Goodbye, auto increment
You are going to see a lot more writing about non-relational databases from me in the near future, and I thought I’d start making the transition with a little ditty about auto increment columns in MySQL. In short, they are … Continue reading
JTable and primary keys
While integrating Joomla with a remote user source, I learned that JTable won’t let you touch id columns (or the primary key, more specifically). I had to do some workarounds and this is my shameful story. Continue reading