jeremywesselman

I use http://www.codebasehq.com to manage my private projects. You can create milestones along with specific tickets for each milestone. If you want something more detailed, you should have a look at http://www.pivotaltracker.com. I just started messing around with this for a couple of projects. Jeremy

I use http://www.linode.com for my VPS. I've never had any problems with them so far, going over a year now. I also hear great things about http://www.slicehost.com. Jeremy

I can recommend either. I started using Ubuntu as my main operating system a couple years ago. I recently switched my desktop from Gnome to KDE and I'm liking it. But still, I don't thing you can go wrong with either. Jeremy

I've been an Ubuntu user for a few years now. Started on Ubuntu 6.04 (Dapper Drake). I also deploy my web apps to my Linode which is running Ubuntu Server. I had tried a few others before Ubuntu. It all started at ITT with Red Hat. From there I dabbled in Mandrake and SuSe also. Ubuntu is the one for me so far. Jeremy

I also enjoy putting on a wonderful display every 4th that seems to keep growing and growing and growing. Just this past year I applied for and got my Type 54 permit. I also joined the local pyrotechnics guild (Bluegrass Pyrotechnics Guild). There are many commercial firing systems on the market. It depends on your budget and your needs as to what it's going to cost. You could also put together your own if you feel like it. I'm a member of www.pyrouniverse.com/forum and they have a forum on there just for homemade firing systems. There are many diagrams and photos to go along with it. The senior members are also very helpful in explaining the diagrams and such. It's probably worth a look. Jeremy

http://www.github.com is a free repository for hosting open source Git repos. They also have paid options in which you can have private repos. http://www.codebasehq.com is another great repository host which allows Git, SVN, and Mercurial repos. http://www.bitbucket.org is a Mercurial repository host. http://www.codaset.com is another Git repository host, still in beta. Jeremy

My xbox live gamertag is jwesselman. I'm usually pretty decent (positive ratio). Hit me up if you wanna play sometime... Jeremy

I thought you said you wanted to find which 'efed_list_style' that matched the 'style' column in the user table. That's what you're second description sounded like to me anyways. But it looks like in the code you've shown now that it is not in the user's table. Jeremy

So you have a select box in a form. The values from the select box are pulled from the 'efed_list_styles' table. You have a user table that has a column called style. You want to find out which of the styles from 'efed_list_styles' is in the user table column 'style'. Right so far? If so, all you have to do is add an if statement to check if the user column 'style' matches the 'efed_list_styles' column. I'm going to assume you have already pulled the information from the user's table and it is stored in $user. <select name="style" class="dropdown"> <option value="0">- Select -</option>'; <?php $query = 'SELECT name FROM efed_list_styles LIMIT 2'; $result = mysql_query ( $query ); while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc ( $result ) ) { print "<option value=\"".$row['name'] . "\"; if ($row['name'] == $user['style']) { print " SELECTED"; } print ">" . $row['name']."</option>\r"; } ?> </select> **Untested Should be something like that. Might need to tweak it a little bit. Jeremy

Not sure what you mean by "web-based". PHP is a "system-based" (as you put it) language also. It can be used for things other than making web pages. It just happens to be that making web pages is what it was originally created for and it's a very popular tool for it. I prefer to use Ruby instead of PHP because the syntax is easier to write and read. Nothing against PHP. It's what I started in and I still use it often. I tried Rails because of all the "automagic" things it did for you. I still use it because it's easy to get up and running quickly and Ruby is a joy to code in. Yes, PHP has it's MVC frameworks also, some of which work almost exactly like Rails. I haven't tried Python or Django yet so I can't comment on them. Maybe I'll get around to it sooner or later. Jeremy

This subject is going to be like Religion. Everybody has their opinions of what is real and what isn't. I'm not asking or telling you to believe this theory, but if you want to change the way you think about it, give it a read. Jeremy

Here is a link to the 'theory'. http://how911wasdone.blogspot.com/ I am in no way associated with this website btw. Jeremy

I totally agree with you on this. These buildings were definitely imploded. There are many interviews with fire fighters saying they heard multiple explosions while the buildings were collapsing. Some even say there were explosions going off before the buildings started coming down. I used to believe that there was no way these could have been imploded. I did some research on some of the conspiracy theories out there just to see what kind of crazy scenarios they had cooked up. Some of them make more sense than what we are being fed by the media. I believe that it was insurance job pulled off by Israelis. Jeremy

As TheFilmGod and Roopurt mentioned above, you should do work locally then deploy from your version control. But not all sites have things set up this way, and they're not really interested in setting it up this way either. Sometimes you're stuck working for a client that just wants changes or updates here and there and you have to edit on the live site. In cases like this, there are a couple options that make things pretty easy. As MadTechie mentioned above, Dreamweaver has the ability to connect directly to your FTP and allows you to edit files directly on the server and updates them when you save them. Another IDE that has this is Zend Studio. It allows you to do the same thing. Both of these programs are definitely not inexpensive. But since Zend Studio is built on Eclipse, you may be able to get this feature without having to purchase Zend Studio. NetBeans also has a plugin called RemoteFileSystem. I've used this before to do the same thing, but it is sometimes hard to configure properly and it won't let you delete the connections if you need to. Jeremy

I believe this is from Billy Madison and it was Chris Farley who said it... RIP you fat bastard... jdub

Here is a php video site. Some free videos, the rest are accessible via subscription. http://www.phpvideotutorials.com/ Jeremy

You need to put all of the checkboxes into their own array. <input type="checkbox" name="checkbox[]" value="value" /> Then when you submit the form, it will make an array inside of the $_POST array. $_POST['checkbox'] Note: I didn't test this exact code, but it should be something very similar. Jeremy

+1 for Ubuntu. I'm using 8.10 desktop since it came out and haven't had any problems with it. I also deploy to Ubuntu Server. Jeremy

Even if you are only serving static html files, you need a web server to do so. You can't just upload the html files to the server and they magically server themselves. Here is a good link to get you started setting up a VPS or dedicated server: http://www.usefuljaja.com/ Also check out http://articles.slicehost.com/sitemap Jeremy

I found the plugin page here: http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=13195 Jeremy

I use Netbeans 6.5 RC2 with the php plugin. You'll have to search with google for the Remote Filesystem plugin. I can't remember where I found it. Jeremy

I's say you are generous giving it 6 months. Agreed.

Cowboys. They've been my favorite team since I started watching football. It's hard to be a fan of the hometown Bengals.

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Agreed.