Category Archives: Techy

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

Nintendo DS Lite

Just a short note to say that I bought a Nintendo DS Lite on Monday and have been enjoying the heck out of it since. I’ve bought two games so far: Mario and Luigi Partners in Time, and Super Princess Peach. Partners in Time has been my favorite because it’s like the [...]
Also posted in Video games | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

I beat the Amazee Dayzee!

In Paper Mario for the Nintendo 64, which I’ve been playing on my Wii, there’s this creature called an Amazee Dayzee. It’s dead tricky to beat because it has 20 Heart Points, which isn’t much, but it usually runs away as soon as it gets the chance. I’ve been trying to beat the [...]
Also posted in Video games | Tagged , | 1 Comment

my Qbee PHP script

I'm a member of the Quilting Bee and I use a very simple PHP script I wrote for displaying my quilt. I figure someone else might get some use out of it, so here it is for your coding pleasure: PHP <?php // The relative URL to the directory containing my patches $img_dir = '/wp-images/qbee/'; // The patches [...]
Also posted in Programming | Tagged , | 8 Comments | Current music Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches

regular Javascript v. AJAX for dynamic content insertion

Recently for work, I’ve had cause to write functionality so that a certain chunk of a form can be inserted again, over and over, by the user. The form involves data about course equivalencies between schools, and the user might need to submit data for multiple courses a student has taken. Hence, the [...]
Also posted in Programming | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment | Current music 11h30 by Danger

Introduction to Web Design presentation

View PDF » This is a very basic introduction on how to go about creating a web page. It was to last for about ten minutes and given to an audience of middle schoolers. See also the handout I made for them containing links to various resources.
Posted in Techy | Tagged | Leave a comment

CSS Web Design presentation

View PDF » This lasted about an hour, if I remember correctly, and skimmed over HTML and CSS basics before delving into guidelines for improving a web page’s appearance through CSS. The audience was my fellow college students who may have had some knowledge of HTML and CSS, but no background in professional web design.
Posted in Techy | Tagged , | Leave a comment

make your Mac listen up

I'm so tickled I can't stand it. All right, so Speech Recognition stuff on a Mac is pretty darn cool by itself, but now I've got a nice Apple Script that opens up Safari with various tabs of my favorite sites, and it does this when I tell my Macbook "Get on it."
Also posted in OS X | Tagged , | 5 Comments

my organizational side run amok

I installed Delicious Library earlier and have spent all afternoon and evening scanning in barcodes from my CD’s, DVD’s, books, and games. Wow, that sounds like the dorkiest thing ever: while everyone else in this country is watching the Superbowl, I’m sitting alone in my apartment, waving barcodes at my computer. I [...]
Posted in Techy | Tagged | 1 Comment | Current music New and Approved (remix) by No Doubt

chmodding and Ruby

Recently, I switched from a Powerbook to a Macbook, and to copy my files from one to the other, I used a pen drive. Since my pen drive has a FAT file system, it treats everything as being executable. This, however, is not the case on a UNIX-like file system like OS X. In order to save myself the hassle of manually chmodding thousands of files, I wrote this Ruby script.
Also posted in Linux, OS X, Programming | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

ArtRage

I downloaded the free starter version of ArtRage 2 the other day and I’m just now getting around to playing with it. I have no talent with drawing people or objects, but I was able to whip this up in a few minutes, and Todd was able to discern that it’s a human face, [...]
Posted in Techy | 1 Comment