Michael Dauz

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Grabbing value of checked radio button - jquery

Ran into issue of trying to grab which radio button is selected without having to submit a form. because if you just try to look for the radio button with a certain name, it returns the first one it sees in the DOM. I want to know which one was selected.

$('input[name=radioName]:checked').val()

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Kaleidoscope

Google Kaleidoscope and this app is the #1 result. May I say that is impressive especially with a well known word.

http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/

Today's Jamesism is the introduction of Kaleidoscope. A file comparison tool for the Mac. Used Textmate for SVN but this is the tool I use for Git.

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PHP/Pear and GoDaddy and MAMP

In order for me to even play with all the capabilities of PEAR I had to figure out how to install the packages on my shared server on GoDaddy. And locally on my MAMP server. The Godaddy solution is a lot easier as of Jan 2012, in a support post i read. I ran into initial issues when I tried to

include ('Mail.php'); 

I tried to have this include line on a folder in the root and going up a directory or doing a relative '/' to go to the root then go from there. It just couldn't figure it out, but once I placed the document with the include code in the root directory it worked! So relieved. The pear::mail library will allow me to send html emails just like I'm use to with other 3rd party email/CRM tools.

MAMP. I want to test locally without having an internet connection. Found this great article on how to get PHP, MAMP and PEAR to work together. After pear was set up i just installed Pear Mail and it works now!

pear install mail

I haven't created anything but this set up has taken so much time I wanted to document it for myself and others.

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Award Campaign Status

For the past 2 days i've been stuck on the most frustrating problem. The solutions were there and the answer was as simple as location of a file. now i can continue on with my adventures. i feel guilty typing here when i could be typing code.

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Curiosity often leads to trouble

Alice in Wonderland

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Day 11 - Funemployment adventures

I have figured out how to do the 'all-nighter', go to sleep by 11pm and wake up naturally at 5:30am. I’m a morning person. The past 4 of 11 days I’ve awoken w/o an alarm clock at 5:30 or within a 5 minute window before. Up, ready, awake, charged to work. Not focusing on my energy to stay awake in the middle of the night I can now just work. Writing here is work, free’s my mind and my inbox is getting full up there and need to archive some of it.

Since day 1 I've been productive in a wide range of activities. Finished the 1st phase of my web resume, Michael Dauz Web Resume. I have more plans and notes on how what I want to do next to it so can't wait to start those. My family was the focus of my first week. It felt as though the timing of being free I was able to help out. My uncle fractured his patella (knee cap) while training for the Chicago Marathon! (sad, moment of silence…) This happened the Sunday night following the super bowl. By Tuesday I'm in San Jose picking up my cousin from the San Jose Airport and eating my Oba's omurice. Side note, before eating the life-giving omurice I took my cousin to Target and bought him bananagrams. Wednesday, we're up at 4am taking my uncle to Stanford Hospital for his knee surgery and wouldn't be home till 3pm that afternoon. Lots of banagrams and coding happened. Thursday I took my sister, cousin and Lolo to Pasta Pomodoro at Santana Row and ate me some Fettuccine Alfredo with chicken. Friday was the double header of SFO trips. In the morning took my Lolo to SFO to fly to Houston. Note: if your relative needs wheelchair assistance and is on a flight that stops in another city, confirm they receive help to and from gates/bagging claim. I learned this before taking my Lolo to the airport and not because I forgot to confirm then learned from that mistake. Please, my dad knows me well just like you do and made sure to tell me 3x before taking my Lolo to the airport. Disaster averted, although we did joke what it would be like if he was stuck in San Diego on the plane or at the gate. Just imagine you making jokes about your own relatives. Yes, just as mean and yes, just as funny. After that, took a mini power nap and took my little cousin to SFO so that she could fly home for the weekend. 

Since then I've been able to focus on my own work. Lots of ideas spewing out. What I discovered about myself these past few years is only when I've said things outloud do I think things through. Why I can't have an internal discussion is beyond me but when I tell people my ideas I'm able to really examine what the hell i'm saying. I was inspired by a conversation I had with my wonderful-intelligent-beautiful girlfriend, she told me when she left a previous job she immediately emailed everyone she knew and told them she was looking for a job and soon after had another job! That inspired something in me: emailing all my contacts  in a fun and interactive way. I kicked my marketing brain into overdrive and devised a whole campaign in an afternoon. Win a 'Helped Michael Dauz get a job' Award! Users would come to a landing page, view an award with their name on it. The person(s) who helps me get a job will win an actual award with their name on it! They win by signing up and sharing my web resume with their contacts through facebook, email, twitter, g+. Goal is for me to get a job! If you go there it's still in development, but form verification works.

I feel this is how I'll showcase what I can do from a marketing perspective as well as coding. It'll be fun and live all on a single landing page but it's going to be doing a lot. I'm going to build from scratch a landing page with HTML/CSS, javascript, database writes. Also create basic functionality: analytics, form verification, email notifications. I've used premade tools in the past for this but now I can create the tools myself. Challenge Accepted.

That leads to now, I'm almost done with 40% of the project. Took time to brain dump and hope to continue to do so moving forward.

ps. Grateful for the I spent with my family and inspired everyday by my girlfriend.

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The school defined your 20s. Now you're going to define who you are in your 30s.

Josh R. - SF Roommate

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Code is Poetry

Footer of every wordpress.org page

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02/03/2012

Carpool

One final ride with carpool. With everyone in Shirley it felt like any other day. All of us were in true form. It was great to observe and take in this last carpool ride.

AM Photos

http://www.michaeldauz.com/am

Created a web page to catalog as much photos I can of myself and my friends at AM.

• PHP page that looks through a directory of photos, stores all file names in an array. Shuffle the array so each time the page is viewed the images are in a new order.

MichaelDauzWebResume.com

http://www.michaeldauzwebresume.com

One of my favorite tv shows is 'How I Met Your Mother'. On the show Barney creates a video resume that showcases nothing of what he can do. I want to do the same thing and make it ridiculous but actually have code to show off.

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Preface

Was laid off on Feb 2nd, 2012. This is a documentation for myself of things I'm doing everyday to advance myself as a person and a coder, and to find another job. I vow to myself to write about my experience as it happens. To document processes, works, pictures, ideas hatched, ideas materializing, and code. Use this site as my own accountability partner.