We are celebrating the 100th post on CodeNinjaBlog with a gallery of photos from yesterday. Tina and I went out exploring South Florida and shooting maternity photos. Yes, I know, I desperately need a new camera. Working on it. Thanks to everyone for supporting the site over the past 6 months!
Monthly Archives: February 2013
The Greatest Creation of My Life | Week 39
“Almost over”, says the doctor, “One more week!” That is not really what I wanted to hear and definitely not what Tina wanted to hear. But that’s what we were told. The doc thinks it’s unlikely that spontaneous labor will happen in the next week, and estimates that we will be back next Friday to […]
SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS and no_found_rows
By default, the WordPress SQL query that selects posts from the database will use “SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS …”. This is mainly for pagination purposes, to speed up subsequent queries for the next set of results. Writing the query that way certainly helps speed up the site as a whole, but is useless in some circumstances. Remedy: […]
The Greatest Creation of My Life | Week 38
Good news and bad news this week – Tina is having contractions! What’s the bad news? – you might ask. Well, just ask Tina. They hurt. (EDIT: Contractions are normal for many weeks before labor, so don’t get too excited) They’re seldom and very intermittent, but they are definitely happening. At least I have something […]
Lionfish and Hormones
Hormones are a funny thing. I know this because I’m not a dreamer. When I was a kid I had the typical nightmares and occasionally would yell out at night. But pretty much since childhood, I drift off at night and experience a split-second of blackness before I am awakened by the sound of my […]
What Is WordPress?
Several people have asked me recently, “What is WordPress“? Those words are searched over 30 million times per month on Google. I have been working with WordPress for years now so I figured I would take a few moments to explain what is WordPress, what it does, and how you can use it. So what […]
UFOs In Florida
Let me preface this post with this: When I don’t completely write-off an idea, I am just about the world’s biggest skeptic. I don’t believe in ghosts, Earth-visiting aliens, or sasquatch-loch-ness-boogie-men. Now that that’s said, I just saw a UFO – a very real, very abnormal, very strange pattern of lights in the sky, fairly […]
The Greatest Creation of My Life | Week 37
After 36 weeks of preparing for our baby we’re finally taking some time to relax. We’ve been taking after-dinner walks on Palm Beach Island and around CityPlace. There’s not much left to do but wait for the serious contractions to start. Tina is moving a bit slower than usual, but she’s as happy and cheerful […]
Seriously, Germany, You Can Quit Now
American Black-History month must also be Europe’s “Hack the US” month, or something. My blacklist is filling up with users from Germany, Sweden, and London, who have tried to brute force their way into my admin area. Usually it’s Chinese IP addresses with a few African and US addresses thrown in the mix. But someone over in […]