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I'm Drew. I'm a web developer in Texas.
I like creating web applications that interact with and manipulate data in new ways to help businesses streamline their workflows.

Recent Articles

Gmail/Twitter/OSX Style Buttons with CSS

Largely inspired by Gmail buttons, combined with Twitter’s simple but elegant buttons plus a blog post on “realistic looking buttons with CSS3“… I have attempted to make a “cheap” (minimal code) replica of said buttons. My objective is to have similar looking buttons to put in pre-production or internal use only projects. So the problems [...]

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PHP Time Based UUID Function (GUID)

In my desire to find the “right” UUID function to use in my application, I grew to like the MySQL UUID() results produced because they are partially time based. But I didn’t like that I have to make a database call every time I want a new UUID.  I didn’t find any similar functionality in [...]

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Converting Ticks to a Timestamp

I recently had to deal with a SQLite database that stored the timestamps as ticks.  Having to first research what a tick is, I created a simple function that will convert a tick value to a timestamp or MySQL datetime value since I couldn’t find anyone else who had done such a thing yet. You [...]

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Bug with Adobe Flash on Mac when uploading files to a redirected URL

Just spent almost the entire day trying to figure out what I was doing wrong when trying out many different flash multi-file uploading widgets. All of them would give me a 302 redirect http error, even when testing locally. So after much searching and reading and studying… and finally testing this on my Windows machine [...]

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