About Me

Curtis Gibby is a husband, father, programmer and journalist, in that order. (At least I hope that's the priority list, but once in a while it gets messed up.) The content of this site mostly reflects the first and second parts of that list. You can check out my web and journalism work on my resume. Read more on the About Me page.

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UPS WorldShip crashes caused by new version of MySQL ODBC driver

Thu. 11 Jun. 2009 08:24:30 AM

At work, I'm in charge of getting information into and out of a big database of orders.  That includes linking the shipping information to the UPS WorldShip program that our fulfillment team uses to automatically buy UPS service. When the ... Read More

Prototype tablekit beats jQuery tablesorter by a mile

Sat. 6 Jun. 2009 07:14:33 PM

Since I'm trying to become a better programmer, I'm updating my web site for a better user experience.  I originally built the pictures and recipes pages with SQL-based sorts, so that the user would click on a link that ... Read More

Words and Music by Nathan

Sun. 10 May. 2009 07:15:49 PM

Nathan has gotten the hang of several words recently.  He's had "uh-oh" down pat for quite some time, but now he's branching out: "Wa-wa" (water), "Na-na" (banana, his most-requested food), "Apo" (apple), "Da-da", "Hi", "Up", "Anen" (at the end ... Read More