Oh, I mentioned it in my last article, but parallel port circuits are incredibly simple to make, one of the crappy projects I have in my room is a simple 8 LED readout from a parallel port.
That is a picture of it straight after I first set it up, I had made the front panel for it but i didn’t realise those two struts inside the case were in the way 
, so I could not put the front panel back on.
I have fixed it up since then, but it’s basically the same as that.
Weekend Coding for Work, if I had time to code the mood plugin, it would say “tired”
Still got a fair bit todo.
Just to explain what i’m building (because I feel like it), I am building a system I have codenamed “Persephone”, it is basically a custom designed Customer Management/Ordering/Sales/Etc Management tool.
A *HUGE* workflow system, and it is pretty much 55% complete. I would have more done, but I also have to do normal work, so it’s been confined to here and there.
I am about 85% through the ticketing system, so tickets can be logged and processed according to workflow.
And just because i’m pretty much a stickler for neatness, it’s mostly written in modules that register and hook into events created by the interface module. I am really proud of some of the tricky event handling and sql i’ve put into it.
If I could get it to cook breakfast and wake me up, I would marry it.
Incidently, I could make a system module for it, which would do that 
, Infact a simple circuit up to a LPT port around here …. oooh I have shivers at how geeky that would be
EDIT: The reason I entitled this “CVS Commit” is because I just commited most of the work I have done this afternoon.
I fell over laughing at most of these but i love the line “Darth Maul doesn’t count because he died like a tattoed little bitch”
eheheh
I was a little disturbed by this, but that was well overwhelmed by the fun of throwing a ragdoll around.
Oh well, back to coding.
I’ve got a ticketing list, and i didn’t want to use foreach php sql queries.
it took me about 10 minutes of hard sql memory racking to get this, so i’m pretty stoked, it feels like a win
So not really a hard query, just hard to remember the syntax.
select * from customers c left outer join (select customerid, count(*) as ticketcount from tickets group by customerid) as t on c.customerid = t.customerid group by c.customerid;
This is a testmonial … i was rolling around laughing.
I was looking for this a while ago, i found it again while cleaning out some old folders i found a version i had parsed into sql (for use with arpwatch)
I thought i might grab the updated version, and a quick google later, here it is.
The More Hard Drive Space you have, the more Junk you will have.
The corollary is that if you give someone a 200gb drive, they will fill it up.
Regardless of how much actual data they have.
Mood: Really Very Tired.
How to make a Favorites Icon in Photoshop.
Enough Said.
Mood: Really Very Tired.
How to make a Favorites Icon in Photoshop.
Enough Said.