It seems like SOPA is almost dead, but there’s still a protest alive and well planned for tomorrow. I wrote a quickie WordPress plugin that redirects any page requests to sopastrike.com/strike. I know I’m late and it’s primitive, but it gets the job done. Continue reading
SQL Sort by Specific Field Value
Did you know that you can sort by a specific field value? I didn’t! If you want certain items that have a certain value in a field to show up first, this is what your order by clause should kind of look like:
ORDER BY field(name_of_field,'value1','value2') DESC
If you want an item with a specific value to show up last instead, replace ‘DESC’ with ‘ASC’.
Summer 2011 Report
Now that all of the events I went to this summer are over, it means that summer, for me specifically, is pretty much over. Not all events went as I planned, but I have some good news to report. Continue reading