Michael Chaney articles - 10 total
COBOL, Dates, May 20, 1875, and Disinformation
Let me start at the end for those who don't want to read the whole thing. COBOL does not have a...
Understanding Hexadecimal Numbers
I'm going old-school here, but some of these basics are overlooked nowadays. This is not a post for...
Matching Fuzzy Data
I do a lot of work in the music industry. One thing about the music industry - and really every...
Replacing Cron Jobs With Active Jobs in Rails
For years - decades, actually - I've been using the rails runner to handle recurring jobs via cron. ...
Moving From auto_strip_attributes to normalizes
I ran across the excellent "auto_strip_attributes" gem years ago, and it's been a staple gem that...
Adding A Confirmation Interstitial On Create in REST
On X, Tom Rossi asked about handling a confirmation page on a form while conforming to RESTful...
Considerations for Unicode and Searching
In previous posts here and on Twitter (now X) I've written about using Unicode and UTF-8 in general...
Making Common Table Expression SQL More Railsy
In our last episode, I talked about using the common table expression syntax to make a query run...
Inserting and Selecting New Records - One Query
Just found something very interesting in PostgreSQL, thanks to Claude. I have a really nasty query...
Refactoring fix_encoding
I've been writing about Unicode on Twitter over the last week, and specifically handling Unicode in...