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.

Indie Rock Rules

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

Most of my personal development focus for the last couple months has been on my new site: Findie Rock : Find Indie Rock . This project has been a lot of fun, and a great learning experience (which I’ll turn … Continue reading →

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Findie Rock – Find Indie Rock

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

Ok… a new project has launched, finally! I’ve got Findie Rock now up and running. The functionality is a little sparse at the moment, but main page (Events/Artists/Albums) should work for searching. The artist page also has details for the … Continue reading →

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New Project – TwitFeed

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

Today is the release of a new project : TwitFeed. It is a live streaming twitter plugin for wordpress. You can have your blog updating with content from twitter in real time. Follow your favourite people, or track keywords related … Continue reading →

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Lovely WordPress

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

I have been doing some custom wordpress plugin development over the last week or two, and this time has afforded me the opportunity to become more intimately familiar with the way in which the entire codebase works. I have worked … Continue reading →

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New Dev Posts

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

Just a heads up I’ve written a couple new dev postings today. It’s been too long since an update and I’ve had some things swimming in my brain that have needed to come out for a while!

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Debugging and Performance with PHP

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

Debugging I wanted to note we were using PHP5 by this time… I talk about PHP3 and PHP4 because at the time good tools were hard to find! In the early days of PHP3 and PHP4 us web developers could … Continue reading →

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MVP (Model View Presenter) – Supervising Controller

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

I talked a little while ago about the MVP pattern, but at the time I was considering using the passive view structure. I realized after attempting to implement this pattern for a few of my views it seemed to be… … Continue reading →

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LINQ-2-SQL – The Good and the Bad

Posted on July 17, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted an update on here, and I do have a good excuse! My brother is getting married (today – July 17th), I ended up going to Vegas for his bachelor party, and I’m … Continue reading →

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Model View Presenter (MVP) – Passive View

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

It’s time to get back to the project I was talking about the other day which required some refactoring. I started yesterday afternoon ( our bi-weekly kickoff was in the morning ) and finished modifications early this afternoon. Technically, removing … Continue reading →

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Pi – Madness

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

It seems I haven’t done any cleanup on my cached pi pictures in quite some time. I took a look today and the cache folder had ballooned much larger than I had ever seen! ******:zenwerx.com/pi/cache$ ls | grep -c png … Continue reading →

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