Dave Hansen-Lange

Web Developer

Dave Hansen-Lange has been developing websites since 2003 when he needed a web presence for the record label that he founded with several fellow musicians. In 2004, he became the lead web developer for the Green Party of Alberta (Canada). In his search for a better web platform he found CivicSpace (The platform contributed to largely by other Advomatic developers and which evolved from DeanSpace - the platform used for the Howard Dean campaign in 2004). In 2005 Dave left his first career in music and started developing full time. Dave has also been a member of the CiviCRM development community since CiviCRM 0.8 (2005).

The dreaded "MySQL has gone away" error

In environments where there are many databases running on the same machine (ex. shared hosting), or in high traffic environments (ex. enterprise sites) it is a common problem that unterminated connections to the database linger around indefinitely until MySQL starts spitting out the "Too many... more

Quick and easy Congressional District lookups for your CiviCRM contacts

By definition CiviCRM is used by many organizations in the political sphere. For those organizations working in the US one useful metric to have on your contacts is their congressional district. Up until now this has usually been accomplished with either custom code, or exporting your contacts,... more

Drupal Maintainability III - Self Documentation

It's been a while since I've done an article in the Maintainability series, but that's how the web business goes - alternating between insane activity and manageable momentum. This time we're talking about... more
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