The Orlando IT community has done a great job of promoting the upcoming BarCamp. The word is out, and over 170 people have registered for the event already. Like any community, though, to be successful some financial backing is needed. For this reason, we at both MindComet and Statiksoft have pledged our support and have [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2007
BarCamp Orlando 2007
August 22, 2007 – 9:43 am
BarCamp is coming to Orlando! I’ve been interested in attending some technical conferences for a while now, so BarCamp is coming just in time. I’m looking forward to some interesting presentations and meeting cool locals in the tech industry. I’ll be representing two companies I’m a part of, MindComet and Statiksoft. Others from both [...]
Natural Order Numerical Sorting
August 20, 2007 – 4:17 pm
I came across an interesting problem today in the CodeIgniter forums. Suppose you have a dataset like this:
1
1.2
1.2.1
1.2.3
1.2.4
2
5
5
5.1
5.7
11
11.1.2
Obviously, the example cited above is sorted, and sorted correctly. Now lets say these values exist in a random order in a database and we want to retrieve them in the same order as above–sorted ascending. The simple [...]
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