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Archive for “September, 2009”

Oh, and about that job hunt

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

It’s been called off. In addition to, evidently, nobody thinking a person with degrees in history and library science could be a decent web programmer (I can, really!) I realized that the flexibility my current job provides far outweighs the gap between my current and deserved salaries.
But if you insist on trying to give me [...]


I’m sure this is bad practice somehow

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

If you don’t know PHP, you can safely ignore this.
I had been using the following code to get rows out of a database (it’s with Oracle, but I’m sure mysql_fetch_assoc() would work just as well for these):
while ($row = oci_fetch_array($result)) {
$whatever[] = $row[];
}
But then it hit me: if I’m already fetching [...]