brian dichiara


Major glitch in banking…

Posted in Bin by briandichiara on the February 8th, 2007

I used to work in customer service in a bank and I am currently working for a credit union, and I must say that the software writers that code for banking transactions need to fix a serious glitch. Here’s the situation:

I have an account with a local financial institution that I use solely to pay my bills, so I rarely keep much extra money in it. I usually put just enough in it to pay the bills through their bill payment service and that’s it. (more…)

MySQL Custom Sort

Posted in Code by briandichiara on the February 1st, 2007

Here’s something neat. If you want your SQL results in an order that’s not alphabetical or numerical, this little bit of code will allow you to specify what order you want your fields to appear. (more…)

Interdum

Posted in PHP by briandichiara on the January 30th, 2007

This post is merely to display a block of code and how WP manages to jack it up. Notice the extra line break between each line of code. This isn’t going to work, and must be fixed!

margin-bottom: 12px;
font: normal 1.1em “Lucida Sans Unicode”, serif;
background: url(img/quote.gif) no-repeat;
padding-left: 28px;
color: #555;

Also, aren’t the blockquotes cool!?

Sed sodales nisl sit amet augue. Donec ultrices, augue ullamcorper posuere laoreet, turpis massa tristique justo, sed egestas metus magna sed purus.

First Post

Posted in Bin by briandichiara on the January 22nd, 2007

Ah! the infamous first post of a blog! It usually consists of me promising to say more when I have time and then end up never posting another article ever again. Well, I hope that is not the case this time. Instead, I think I’ll make a list of things I need to resolve with my WP Theme I’ve been working on, and cross them off as I figure them out. This list will probably grow as I find more things wrong with it, but hopefully items will eventually get crossed off. Ok, here we go: (more…)

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