Joanna Walker

Sometimes You Do Get Lucky - 30DB #15

The other day I wrote about how success is not just based on luck. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t help. And sometimes you get gems like this (a shame the quality isn’t a bit better…). I was trying to do a photo of the sour cream

Kitty Photo - 30DB #9

Needed a bit of a break from the long posts… So here’s a photo of Jack being cute on the sofa. :) Yes, the quality is terrible, as usual when I try to take shots without daylight.

Mantis theme mock-up

At my new job we use MantisBT for our bug tracking and project management. Unfortunately despite good functionality the visual side is desperately lacking some love and attention. Tired of looking at the barely styled web app I decided to spruce it up a little bit. A teaser of the

Week of the Month in Mysql

SELECT WEEK(my_date_field,5) - WEEK(DATE_SUB(my_date_field, INTERVAL DAYOFMONTH(my_date_field)-1 DAY),5)+1 Recently I needed to get the number of the week in a certain month. There is the handy WEEK() function, however it only gives you the week of

How To Use the Strong Ownership List

Some time ago I wrote about the idea of the Strong Ownership List approach. A recent comment on that post has made me realize that for the idea to be better understood and easier to apply I probably should describe the process it involves in more detail. Strong Ownership Definition

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