I was getting kind of frustrated with some of the lack of Database CSV scripts I was finding. None of them really did what I wanted - of course not every script out there is suited for your own personal needs. I thought I would whip something up that’s pretty flexible when thrown into various situations.

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It’s Sunday afternoon and it is probably the hottest day Ottawa has been hit with so far. So I went out to The Bay, bought an air conditioner, sat on my computer and hacked away. I decided to make a small jQuery plugin that provides an unobtrusive approach to using images as checkboxes and radio buttons. I had seen a few out there that just take care of the checkboxes and that don’t work at all with labels. I figured that I can whip something up that might help a lot of people out. The script figures out whether it’s a checkbox or a radio button - you just have to provide some styling info.

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I moved into my new apartment downtown March 30. After a few days of settling in, a man who could barely speak English came to my door. He wanted to see my hydro bill to see if I could get a discount. I told him I just moved in and that I hadn’t received my hydro bill yet. The man said he would call me later. No big deal, right?

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After work on Wednesday I made my way down to the Nepean Sailing Club to gain some insight into marketing and selling from a sales guru named Ray Fisher. Andrew Moizer had emailed me about the event, which is organized by The Ottawa Network - in efforts to bring together people from all over Ottawa to do some networking and to listen to some valuable words of wisdom. (more…)

For awhile now, Ben Watts (or one word.. benwatts) and I have been working on a super secret web app. If you want to know when it’s going to be released, sign up at http://www.7shifts.com.

It’s been awhile since I’ve made a post that doesn’t include a script or goodie to download. I felt the need to share with everyone what’s happening in my life. I got a cold sore, my dog ran away and I just ate my last granola bar - but really - I am in the process of building a web application with Ben Watts. He’s a superb designer and programmer and also a good friend of mine ever since we started college together. (more…)

I know what you’re thinking - How could I not click on something called "wiggleSlide"?

Well as awesome as it sounds, it’s pretty cool how it works. It’s a sliding menu built with jQuery that allows you to achieve a "flash" kind of horizontal content scroll. I know you may have seen it before, but do the other ones bounce and ease when you click them? Hopefully not! (more…)

Welcome back to my new site! This time I’ve got it running on a nice and stable version of WordPress. Bare with me as I under-go many changes and try to get things back on track. If you’ve been browsing around this new site you’ll notice that if you commented on one of my articles - it’s gone. I don’t have the time to import 200 comments into the new WordPress structured database - no big deal right?

I wrote something last night that will save a lot of people a lot of time. It’s a class that opens a .csv file (normally saved through Excel) and parses your data accordingly to build an INSERT query for it. Then it inserts all of the information into whatever table you specified. You can also choose to create the table if it doesn’t exist. (more…)

First off, Merry Christmas! For those of you who feel that I’m scrouge for not giving you anything for Christmas, well I’m about to prove you wrong. I spent a few hours on Christmas eve building a little tabbed menu script. (more…)