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Thanks to Daniel, Co-Authors Plus, which I’ve long neglected, finally has an update with some long-overdue bug fixes and some sweet new features.
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Mohammad Jangda
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Mohammad Jangda
Review: Tintin in America
Tintin in America by Hergé
My rating: 3 of 5 starsI’ve started reading through the whole Tintin series again (partially in preparation for the movie) and the experience is very similar to re-watching your old childhood TV shows. You get that warm, nostalgic feeling which slowly dissolves into doubt and and leaves you wondering how you could possibly enjoyed something so bad. This particular book has a lot of racist overtones and the dialogue is pretty poorly written (which I guess is really the norm for any comic book written in the early 20th Century).
Overall, though, the book is still a fun read and I can’t wait to re-read the rest.
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Mohammad Jangda
On $wpdb->prepare
If you do the following, you’re a terrible person:
$query = "SELECT ID from {$wpdb->posts} WHERE ID = %d"; $query = $wpdb->prepare( $query, $value );There is absolutely no reason for
prepareto be on a separate line.Here’s how you do it the right way:
$query = $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT ID from {$wpdb->posts} WHERE ID = %d", $value );One line. Simple, easy to read, and not confusing.
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Mohammad Jangda
And, yes, the query in the example makes no sense.
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Alex Mills (Viper007Bond)
Actually it’s a valid way to see if a post ID exists. :)
And +1 to your post.
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Lloyd Budd
You know how they come to that anti-pattern though, right? They want to isolate the query, so that if it was more easily cowboy coded — add and remove print and debug.
Wonder if prepare() having a debug/echo parameter would be useful, or too abstract… aside, does WP still not have as good of debug infrastructure as bbPress?
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Mohammad Jangda
The problem is that prepare doesn’t do much other than sprintf the query with the values passed in. Developers can still do something like:
$query = $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT ID from {$wpdb->posts} WHERE ID = %d", $value ); error_log( 'Woo! I'm querying IDs! My query: ' . $query ); $id = $wpdb->get_col( $query );Which is why this anti-pattern baffles me…
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Mohammad Jangda
A letter to Canadians from the Honourable Jack Layton
And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one – a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity. We can build a prosperous economy and a society that shares its benefits more fairly. We can look after our seniors. We can offer better futures for our children. We can do our part to save the world’s environment. We can restore our good name in the world. We can do all of these things because we finally have a party system at the national level where there are real choices; where your vote matters; where working for change can actually bring about change. In the months and years to come, New Democrats will put a compelling new alternative to you. My colleagues in our party are an impressive, committed team. Give them a careful hearing; consider the alternatives; and consider that we can be a better, fairer, more equal country by working together. Don’t let them tell you it can’t be done.
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
Even at his weakest, Jack could still inspire us to be our strongest. Sir, you will be missed.
Read the full letter | See Jack at his best best: happy | Six ways Jack Layton helped build Toronto
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Mohammad Jangda
Photo: “All The Ice Cream You Can Eat”
Ice cream?! All you can eat?! 10 cents?! Sign me up!
(Spotted at Dairy Queen)
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Suzanne Gardner
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE NEVER SEEN ICE CREAM FROZEN IN A BIG WAY.
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Mohammad Jangda
WordPress Distraction-Free Skin: Terminal/Matrix
Because all the cool kids want to feel like they’re writing posts in the Matrix. (Inspired by Zen)
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Joen
This reaches a weird equilibrium between terrible and awesome. Kinda like the movie Time Cop.
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Mohammad Jangda
Time Cop was an incredible movie.
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Joen
So good! Especially that part where he does the split!
I think Mia Sara peaked in that film.
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Mohammad Jangda
The Case of The Traveling Text Message — Michele Tepper walks through one of the most powerful features of BBC’s Sherlock, which is just one of the many reasons why I love the series. I can’t wait for new episodes this year.
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Mohammad Jangda
A final word and a thank-you | Slave Lake Book Auction
Well folks, that’s a wrap for the Slave Lake book auction.
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While the auction was an unbelievable amount of hard work, it was also a lot of fun. I LOVED watching the bidding wars going on and all the fun comments between bidders, egging each other on (yes Angie, I’m looking at YOU!). I loved that some of the books were hand delivered to the winners. I loved that authors offered up a SECOND copy to auction losers who wanted to pony up the same amount as the winners. I loved that up until the last post I was still getting donations in.
So thank you all so, so much for making this auction a roaring success. Because of you Slave Lake Library now has $4,909 to put towards rebuilding their library.
And that’s just freaking awesome.
Despite not winning any books, this is still beyond awesome. Great job Colleen!
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Mohammad Jangda
Swoop the Owl – Mobile Plush (on Kickstarter)
I pledged. Because I’m not afraid to admit that I sleep with my phone beside me. Maybe you should too?
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Lloyd Budd
Oh my!
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Mohammad Jangda
On the failures of Online Banking
It seems to me that with every upgrade or enhancement, online banking (in Canada) get less useful and far more difficult to use. Having had a 4-month co-op stint at a bank (doing QA for the Online Banking team), I know all about the red-tape involved, plus the antiquated mindset, skills, and technologies at play, so I’m not really surprised; just disappointed.
Some highlights:
- One bank no longer lets me view my statements online but rather forces me to download a PDF.
- Several banks don’t actually let me download PDF statements.
- One bank fails to list the actual statement date when viewing a statement.
- Two banks limit their passwords at 6-8 characters.
- One bank has two separate systems: one for their credit card and one for regular banking.
- One bank forces me to indicate the fact that I’m from Canada every time I visit their site (because the domain on their cookie isn’t set correctly).
Banks should spend less time on building peripheral money management webapps, and focus instead on the core experience. They could pick up about a million cues from mint.com.
As skeptical as I was about the idea of BankSimple, I now wait with bated breath.
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Lloyd Budd
How many banks do you have accounts with?
I loath “Subject: Notification of new Electronic Documents. Body: This is to notify you that new electronic documents have been delivered to you through EasyWeb Internet banking. You have 1 new statement(s).” I wish the email would include what the document is.
I spend most of my online banking time in Mint.com these days.
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Mohammad Jangda
How many banks do you have accounts with?
At last count, it was five (two of those are just credit cards).
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Lloyd Budd
At last count, it was five (two of those are just credit cards).
You bring the pain upon yourself ;-)
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Joen is discussing. 
Joen 4:31 am on December 5, 2011 Permalink |
Tintin comics high five, these are my favorites!
Though to be frank, the first two (or three depending on whether you count Tintin in Soviet) I find to be rather boring and dull. It’s not until Cigars of the Pharaoh (or whatever it’s translated to) that things get into gear.