I'm somewhat of a technical fellow-- I certainly enjoy technology when it works. When it doesn't, that's sometimes fun too, because it puts you in a problem-solving situation that (barring faulty hardware or impossible individuals) can usually be solved with enough elbow grease and clever thinking. My goal here is to help out the community at large by writing about technical issues I've encountered and solved; I hope to be of help to someone else in the way that the plethora of sites out there has helped me via Google's "search" button. So in short, you'll find useful or interesting links, and short pieces on how to solve clever problems. You may notice I reuse this stylesheet in other sites.
I also have this page as a sort of "online resume". It's nice for me to be able to maintain an index of things I've worked on or done, so you'll find most of that here. Source is avaliable by request for a handful of my projects. The rest I either have an interest in maintaining closed, or aren't ready to be given out.
I won't bore you with an "about me" section, so don't worry. I may put up a photo and a link to my resume in the near future though, so that you know you aren't looking at the links and ramblings of a total faceless idiot. You can email me via: nick @ this domain.
I've also got a Wii and an X360, my ID on the latter of them is radicand. Shoot me a friend request if you want.
Synopsis coming someday to a webpage near you.
I used to work as a financial account reconciliation specialist, which basically means I took a lot of data from various sources and compared them to find discrepancies and unusual events. I daily used tools like MySQL, MS Access/Excel, and VBA (MS Office programming). The specific area I worked with had a lot of transactions by the nature of it, so it was always an interesting challenge to try to process it all quickly and efficiently while finding all the errors and unusual things. If you're a programmer or someone technically inclined and haven't looked at the financial side of things, you might want to. I found it interesting.
The one thing I ask is that if you're going to use anything I've written, please reference me; don't plagarize. Also, I'd love to hear from you if anything ended up helping you or if you use something I've described in your daily practices. By all means in reverse, if you see something I've talked about that could be improved, I'd love to hear that too and will gladly credit you.
I'm skilled in the PHP arts, but also know enough C# and Java to write working and useful programs. I'm also quite fluent with SQL, however by no means do I claim to be an expert (I do hold certification from MySQL though). I also love regular expressions. Below you'll find some hacks and tricks for various tasks you may want or need at some point.