Author Archives: Michael Carpenter

About Michael Carpenter

I'm a software developer for a Kitchener based software company, and do custom work on the side. I also enjoy creating my own projects to solve problems which I encounter, if a solution doesn't already exist.

Whoops!

Just wanted to apologize to anyone who might have hit the site yesterday and saw that it was down. I forgot to renew the domain and didn’t realize until about 6pm. Everything should be working as normal again if you … Continue reading

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Findie Rock Android App Released

Just a quick post to note that I have released a companion app for Findie Rock . It is available for free on the android market: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zenwerx.findierock .

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.NET : IEnumerable + LINQ Extension Methods

Before I begin, I am going to make clear that I have harped on the evils of LINQ in the past, although I mostly said this in the context of LINQ-2-SQL (and not being aware of what you are doing!). … Continue reading

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Piwik Analytics

I’ve been using Google Analytics for a long time to track the number of visits to the site, as well as other metrics like where visitors come from. My biggest complaint with Google’s Analytics package, is that it’s not real … Continue reading

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Ubuntu Day 11.04

It’s Ubuntu Day (1 of 2) for 2011. Praise your local Linux guru, and go download Ubuntu 11.04 . I have to say, I don’t like unity… at all. I went back to the classic desktop as soon as I … Continue reading

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Happy Pi Day!

Happy Pi Day to everyone who can deal with American date standards for a day so we can celebrate an awesome number! And… I broke the pi script (well, technically all my “projects” pages) with a little rewrite rule I … Continue reading

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Har Har HashBang!

A friend of mine pointed me at the following article today, and I do have to say it was a beautiful read: http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs/ If you want your content to work with “ajax” and “web 2.0″ do the mass of your … Continue reading

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Looking for a Software Development Job

It seems that I am looking for work starting today. If anyone sees this and is on the prowl for a Software Developer in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, I am available. Please see my resume for more detail. Cheers Michael

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Full Text Indexes – Not So Hard

As a software developer I have always had my fair share of interaction with databases; many different types of them in fact. Databases are not my favourite thing to work with, but let’s just say they are something which is … Continue reading

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WordPress + forums = bbPress?

While trying to find a simple forum system for use by FindieRock I ran across a little gem called bbPress which intrigued me. I am considering using wordpress to host the blog portion of the Findie Rock site, and that … Continue reading

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