Viewing by month: June 2005
A Contractor No Longer
Posted on Jun 27, 2005
My life as a contractor was short-lived, which is fine by me. I will officially be transitioning into a full-time position with Hasbro and I am quite excited at the opportunity (even if it happened too late for me to join the guys at CFUNITED). I will still be leading the international site development and hopefully moving ahead with the globalization plan I laid out previously. Hasbro has a great web devlopment team and I am glad to be joining them on a more permanent basis.
Ivy - In the Clear
Posted on Jun 21, 2005
Generally speaking this is a development topics only blog, but from time to time I make music recommendations when I feel the album is especially worthy. One such album would be Ivy's In the Clear. I had not given Ivy much of a listen prior to this album, but the sound, IMHO, is a cross between Lush and New Order (circa Republic).
PNG Issues Again - a better PNG solution
Posted on Jun 21, 2005
I always preface these topics by saying I am not a designer...now, previously I posted about a solution for transparent png backgrounds in IE. Also included there was a standard png fix for IE. Well, if you are using some sort of rollover menu DHTML/JavaScript that standard png fix seems to cause issues.
When to Use SQL Stored Procedures?
Posted on Jun 17, 2005
This seems to keep coming up in my work and discussions and I wanted to lay out my opinion on the topic and let others chime in as well. While I am a firm believer in the benefits of stored procedures, there seems to be a cadre of people who feel that all queries can benefit from being encapsulated in a stored procedure...that somehow performance is always better when using a stored procedure...that stored procedures are rock and inline queries are scissors. This, IMHO, is simply not true.
Globalization Plan - Recommended Solution
Posted on Jun 07, 2005
This is excerpted from a report I developed - portions have been removed where they may be irrelevant or confidential. Note that when "we" or "our" refers to my employer)
As discussed above, we face a number of challenges going forward with international web site development. Some of these, for example locales and character sets, are directly related to the addition of Asian and Eastern European languages. Others are indirectly related in as much as the number of supported languages has a great impact on development cost and time as well as long-term maintenance.