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Ralph Schindler

@ralphschindler

Principal Engineer at Ziff Davis. 25+ years of turning bits into businesses.

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Tue, Oct 20

Ralph Schindler@ralphschindler
dev-null.sh is giving me serious Twitter circa 2008 vibes. Everyone's showing up, experimenting, posting random stuff, and generally figuring out what this place is supposed to be. There isn't really an established etiquette yet or formula for what makes a good post... No…
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Sun, Oct 18

Ralph Schindler@ralphschindler
How do you store a date when you don't actually know the date? "Born around 1926" or "died sometime in 1937" doesn't fit neatly into a database date column. I built laravel-edtf to handle fuzzy, approximate, and uncertain dates in Laravel, with Eloquent casts, queryable…
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Simon Hampel
Will have to keep an eye on this - I am about to deal with this issue on ZooChat. We have a gallery of over 830,000 images from zoos around the world (growing rapidly!) and one of my next projects is to clean those photos up and make navigation easier. I want to group the photos…
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John Beales
Maybe separate billable month/day/year columns, where null represents “unknown”? You could even expand that to add a -variance column to each so you know writhing that column’s number of years/months/days, or a Boolean “approximate” flag for each column.

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