The ability to handle hypotheticals, to expand our mental model space far beyond what we can experience directly, in a word, to perform abstraction and reasoning, is arguably the defining characteristic of human cognition. – Francois Chollet Source : https://hackernoon.com/what-educators-must-learn-from-ibms-betrayal-of-science-10126d988655
Syllogism
deductive – take a bit of knowledge and another bit of knowledge to make a truth. modus ponen – always true contrapositive – always true converse – never true Inverse – never true inductive – take some truth to identify a bit of knowledge abduction – take observations and guesses to for a theory that Continue Reading
Spin the Wheel
I worked on an AngularJS component on a Quiz website. “The picture above accurately represents the way I felt when I got the wheel to spin.” It’s for a client that has a lot of sales people and a lot of product. It’s challenging to educate everyone about their entire product line. So they built Continue Reading
My S Q L
I’m getting hacked and it’s crashing my database. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5441972/how-to-see-log-files-in-mysql IP Tables-seems someone is erasing them Change PasswordMySQL Roothttp://www.howtogeek.com/howto/mysql/set-the-mysql-root-password/mysqladmin -u root password (password)Linux Userpasswd (username) All the tables in all the dbs check out.http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/12/mysqlcheck/ Also, here is a basic security page setup by Backspace …https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/configuring-basic-security/
Hatboro Car Show
My buddy Pete is way into cars, motors and all things metal. He got involved with the Hatboro Car Show and is now in charge of judging. I’ve judged with him a couple years so far. Originally, the system was done with pencils and paper. Then they regrouped and tallied the votes. Tedious and so Continue Reading
Trunk Club
Thank you for becoming a member of Trunk Club! We’re excited to change the way you shop. Your stylist is Laura Casper. You should expect to hear from Laura in the next day, but if you just can’t wait to get started, you can contact Laura in the following ways: Phone: 312-940-5205 Email: lcasper@trunkclub.com Laura Continue Reading
Drupal Install Profile
Drupal has a couple ways to get you started using their platform. At Rock River Star, we have wanted an install profile for a long time, yet never built one. We created a document to list the required modules and now, I am going to build that profile and upload it to our Git repo Continue Reading
Swim Club Registration
My daughter is in a swim club near our house. The president is a friend of mine and I offered to help setup online registration and payment. Here is where this adventure begins. I started to look at his site. There is a swim team module where we want to record the entries. It does Continue Reading
Drupal Thing
Using drupal is a lesson in understanding others. But designers are a different beast. They don’t understand the challenges we face if we need to recreate exactly what they want. That’s where the hook for altering a form comes into play. It’s all code, but very structured. There are a many issues that may arise Continue Reading