“Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.”
- Mary Kay Ash, businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc.
Open Source Random Data Generator
September 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I’m starting web development work on a project that will involve searching for matching information. So, I needed to load test data into my MySQL database to begin to play around with queries and results. I figured I’d write a php script to generate a bunch of data for me so I could quickly move on to the fun part of running queries.
Turns out that there are many such tools already online to save me the time. The one I used is generatedata.com and it works quite well.
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”
- Roger Bannister, Runner
“The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.”
- David Ogilvy, Advertising Executive
Our mailman, Larry Jackson, died on Tuesday, August 14, 2012.
He was way too young and too nice of a guy to make his passing easy to understand. We only started talking this year as I was out working on my house and he would come by to deliver. Larry was an instantly “likeable” guy and we always talked for a few minutes before he moved on in his route.
Larry you will be missed.
Rest in peace.
“The secret of business, especially these days, is to focus relentlessly on your unfair advantage – the thing you do that others don’t.”
– John Rollwagen, executive
How To Identify An Unknown Font
June 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I long ago found the What The Font? service at My Fonts for figuring out what font-family was used in web projects I inherited. The site lets you upload in image with the letters in it and will show you what font-family is being used.
The other day I couldn’t get an image to upload on the service so I searched out another way and found Identifont.
It helps you identify the unknown font by asking you questions about it such as, “Does the capital T have points coming down from the top?”
It took me through a gazillion questions about my font. Mainly, because I only knew what the capital K, A, T, D and Y looked like. Amazingly though, it got it down to the exact font I was looking for. An incredible piece of programming!
