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Long ago in a web far far away, Dingobytes.com was created to offer service to a special Niche of businesses. After a few years of blood, sweat and tears, the venture disappeared and the domain was lost. After squatters found this domain useless, it was purchased for sentimental reasons and is now the home to tips and tricks for developers, admins and designers.

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    Recently I took a new job and it involves a lot of report generating. This has been a great fit for me and I have enjoyed the short time here in St Paul, MN.

    The process for the current project is to pull a *.csv file from an email account, parse it into a database query/queries, generate html code and then store the html in a directory structure while also storing the report information in the database.

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    When it comes to developing new applications for the web, it doesn’t take long for plans to spiral out of control. The development track usually starts off simple, but somewhere between initial planning and final release there is this thing we here like to call “Feature Creep”.

    our application vs. good application

    our application vs. good application

    What might start off as a simple idea is turned into a three headed monster as more people add their input. The longer it takes the application to be completed, the more features are added to it until the next thing you know, the application has forms, polls, feedback, email to a friend, embed, etc all added to this small 300 x 300 pixel box. Read More