Chase Woodford | Rants & Raves Archives

When Humans Thrash

In computer science, thrashing occurs when the process of data transfer prohibits the execution of operations. When your computer is thrashing, it’s perceived as slow, sluggish, on the verge of crashing.

The Difference Between Constant and Variable Bitrate

The difference between Constant Bitrate (CBR) and Variable Bitrate (VBR) is the focus of Part 2 of my recent audio file exploration. In case you missed Part 1, you can learn about audio codecs and containers here.

Audio Codecs and Containers for Beginners

“I get an error that says: ‘PowerPoint cannot insert an audio from the selected file. Verify that the necessary codec for this media format is installed, and try again.’ I’ve tried on two different computers and I can’t get the audio file to play. Have you ever run into this before?”

Complete Guide to Sass Programming Language

Sass is a scripting language that is interpreted into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), also known as a preprocessor. If you can write CSS you can start using Sass, and begin taking advantage of the benefits it offers like variables, nested rules, mixins and many other features that enable quicker front end development.

How to Recover a Stored Password from HeidiSQL

It happens to all of us. Maybe you trashed the sticky note you wrote the password on. Maybe someone on your dev team changed the database connection credentials and forgot to tell you. Maybe it’s been a while since you last connected to the database, and now when you try to connect, for some unknown reason, it’s not working. Whatever the case, there’s nothing worse than firing up HeidiSQL, receiving a connection error and not being able to tell if the stored password is correct.

Understanding Social Styles: What They Are and Why They Matter

If you work with people and/or manage people that you find difficult to deal with, keep reading. This post reviews the concept of Social Styles and how to leverage them for improved communication and collaboration in a team work environment.

Linking to Highlighted Lines of Code on GitHub

One of the features I use most often on GitHub is linking to highlighted lines of code in my repository.

Pattern Matching Using Globbing

Globbing, or pattern matching based on wildcard characters, is a feature found in many programming languages.

Writing SQL Statements Using Excel Concatenate Function

True, I’m most comfortable working with the front-end, but that doesn’t stop me from writing SQL statements like a boss.

On Being a Designer/Developer: Reason #1

Because it takes the average person about 20 minutes to get back to work after an interruption.