I’m pretty convinced that the internet economy must be on the upswing. How can I make this unresearched opinion? Well, two reasons, really. In a very local sense, I’m probably busier than I have ever been at work. It just seems that everybody and their brother wants a new website these days. But even more of a clue that this economic swell is not just a Northern Indiana phenomenon is the fact that my principle blog reads are posting on a semi-weekly basis.
Suppose you have a table in your database filled with data about books: title, author, and so on. Every book also has a field for its genre; in that field you put the genre_id corresponding to the genre-table. That’s the easy part. Now, what is the best way to make it possible for every book to have multiple genres?
I’ll admit it: I am not an idea man. I am a problem solver. Sure I have the occasional stroke of “genius”, but on the whole, I’m the guy who gets things done.
Usability, design, accessability are key for the user. For the developer, we worry about productivity. My time is valuable, just like the users. I don’t have precious minutes to waste on hunting for files, rewriting whole sections of code, or find a hack for a (free or
not-so-free) CMS. I’ll try to lay out a few ideas that have helped me save time in my production work, as well as personal work.
Thanks to a tip from Rodney McPhail, I’ve squashed a Mac/IE5 bug that made the menus at the top disappear when you hovered over them.