Use of Joint Cartesian Join and Left Join in Subselect to Accomplish Value Override

01:08PM Dec 30, 2007 in category Web Development by Jesse Bethke

This post details how to accomplish a cross-join between two tables and left join in the many-to-many to override a value in the left most table. The result is a dynamic setting view in which each target section pulls from a base of setting values, but may override the default value with it's own value. There is also an example of using this model for a dynamic cascading heirarchy of settings in coldfusion.

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Anarchy Strikes Computer Science

05:24PM Aug 05, 2007 in category Web Development by Jesse Bethke

Monkey see, monkey do; code monkey write dirty software.  Computer programming is not computer science, but the code monkeys aren't all bad.  Read my first in a series on the quirks of real world software development.  This post details why programming may not be computer science, but shouldn't be taken lightly.

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Make Your Blog Hot With SEO

02:26AM Jul 24, 2007 in category Web Development by Jesse Bethke

I'm sure by now many of you fellow bloggers at USD have noticed that this blog is at the top of the hot blogs list everyday without fail.  In fact this blog tends to average 50-200 hits more per day that the second most popular blog for the day on this server.  More interestingly enough, almost NONE of the hits appear to be from the USD community.  To add to the mystery, I haven't added a post in over a month.  So what is drawing hits to this page?  In this blog post I reveal the magic behind making a blog hot.[Read More]

Safari Rendering Issues

11:33PM Jun 11, 2007 in category Web Development by Jesse Bethke

Today I took my first venture into the world of the Mac and it's webkit framework that is used with all Mac software for rendering XHTML.  Rediscover the nightmarish adventure so that you can avoid it yourself.[Read More]

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