Category Archives: Techy

Programming! Also Linux, web design, hardware… But mostly programming.

programming contest, web design

Published: 6 November 2005
Yesterday was spent, from 9a-8:15p, in the campus library where the regional programming contest was being held. Jessica and I were helpers, Jess as “Operations Support” (i.e. she got to run print-outs from the printer to contestants) and myself as “Systems” (i.e. I got to deal with technical difficulties). It was a long [...]
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Microsoft CEO loses it

Published: 13 September 2005
Ballmer Throws a Chair at F*ing Google Prior to joining Google, I set up a meeting on or about November 11, 2004 with Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer to discuss my planned departure… At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer [...]
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grapes and jeans

Published: 16 August 2005
I was actually up pretty early (for me) this morning: 11:45 a.m. For the past few days I’ve been rolling out at 12:30 or later, which is bad because I need to be getting back on schedule for school. At least my earliest classes only start at 9. My Gap order arrived today: [...]
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simple photo gallery script

Published: 21 July 2005
A very simple photo gallery tool. It displays a set of thumbnail images (made by you) and then each individual image when clicked. Requirements You need PHP support on your server. An easy way to test this is to stick <?php phpinfo(); ?> into a .php file, upload that file to your server, and load [...]
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why I love my CMS

Published: 14 July 2005
For many years (most of my web designing history, really), I maintained all my pages myself with only an HTML editor and scp for uploading. I saw many other sites that used tools like WordPress, MovableType, and Drupal to organize their pages but I never saw the benefit of such things for entire sites, [...]
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neat code

Published: 23 June 2005
One of the easiest ways to keep your code easy to update, read, and debug is to keep it neat. That means indentation, documentation, consistency, and logic need to be applied. These are basics in any programming class, and they are just as applicable with coding HTML as they are with C++ or [...]
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steal my code!

Published: 23 June 2005
I was just reading a review that said: “So many webmaster/mistresses on the web are so afraid of having their code stolen. Does it really matter?” yes, I think it does matter. Particularly for people like myself who spend hours and hours perfecting cross-browser compatible layouts for the Internet. I don’t want my code stolen. That prompted [...]
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random quotes with PHP

Published: 8 June 2005
So you want to display a randomly selected quote on your page, and you want to use PHP to do it. It’s dang simple, let me tell you. Requirements You need PHP support on your server. An easy way to test this is to stick <?php phpinfo(); ?> into a .php file, upload that file to [...]
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more dynamic sites through PHP

Published: 8 June 2005
A couple of reasons to use PHP in your site: Separation of content from design–when you want to change the look of your page, you can update a few files and every page of your content will be updated with those changes. You have more power than if you used some language such as JavaScript, because it [...]
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geeky pager

Published: 14 January 2005
This is one of the niftiest things I’ve seen in a while. Gotta love that it’s running on a Debian system, too.
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