Author Archives: Michael Allen Smith

Using Paint.NET To Create Art Inspired Photographs

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Michael Allen Smith

Back in 2007, I had some fun using PhotoShop CS to mashup my photos with classic artwork in the post Photo and Classical Artwork Mashup. Since then I have moved away from PhotoShop and over to the free image program … Continue reading →

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Using SQL To Guess Bad URL Requests

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Michael Allen Smith

My coffee website INeedCoffee.com went live way back in April 1999. And although the search engines do a good job indexing the site, what I found when I studied the log files was that the site was receiving about 1,000 … Continue reading →

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Case Study: Failed WordPress Update Due to Database Issues

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Michael Allen Smith

This post is about symptoms that broke my install of WordPress and how I was able to get everything fixed. This past Saturday I noticed some bizarre blog behavior. I was getting an email backup of this WordPress blog every … Continue reading →

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Writing Your Own Search Engine Using SQL Server

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Michael Allen Smith

My coffee site INeedCoffee needed a better search engine. I had thrown some basic SQL together when the site was launched back in 1999. It did an OK job when the site didn’t have much content. Over the years, the … Continue reading →

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Using a Classic ASP Dictionary Object To Handle Broken Links

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Michael Allen Smith

My site INeedCoffee was first built way back in 1999 using Classic ASP.  Back then it was just called ASP or Active Server Pages.  It works well and doesn’t require moving to ASP.NET, so I never updated the code base.  … Continue reading →

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