I’ve known for a bit that using the ‘IN’ condition for MySQL queries is much much slower then it should be. I didn’t realize how much will I was browsing the website Common Queries for MySQL and came across the section called The unbearable slowness of IN().
According to this page, using IN is two times [...]

Yesterday, Alex, who handles marketing at Well.ca, asked for a list of top 50 rural customers in Canada. “Easy!” was my reply, then I thought about it. How to do it? Maybe if I get a list from Canadapost with all the postal codes and their population density I can use that. Maybe I can [...]

I was relaxing today and watching a new Canadian show The Border. At one point they were investigating some college students of some form of terrorism/protesting/revealing federal secrets/etc. To help this investigation they were browsing these students online profiles, and guess what the screen shot of the computer showed: Facetropia. Look a bit familiar?

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One of the main uses of this blog is for me to post some of the neat things I’m working on at Well.ca or on my own time. To do this, I need to have a decent syntax highlighter to make all the code I post nice and pretty. I searched the web and came [...]

Recently a few posts have been popping up on the Web about “Rules for Startups”. What’s really neat about these posts are they are written by successful entrepreneurs, they explain their reasoning behind each rule. It’s quite an insight to see why some companies do the things they do.
Some of the rules written by one [...]

Well.ca had our “New Office Party” last night. I must say, it was a great success. We had just the right amount of food (or too little and people went hungry and didn’t complain…), the music was amazing (we had a live local band, it was the perfect ambient music), and a lot of our [...]

What’s the best way to handle did you mean? It’s one of the greatest features of Google, I never worry about misspelling search terms because I know Google will always show the error of my ways.
On Well.ca we had previously implemented this feature using Levenshtein, this measures the number of permutations to get from one [...]

At work, me and my boss, Ali, (we’re the developers) both use Macbook Pros as our development computers. Which is great for most things, I love Macs. The only problem is that we’re developing an online site, and the reality is that Internet Explorer is still the most dominant browser. Right now, we’re using Parallels [...]