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New Article: Encoding files as base64 strings
2008-05-08 22:14:00 Check out my new article on encoding files as base64 strings. Useful for sending binary data across the wire where sending such binary data may be difficult. Especially useful for webservices and sending files. More About: General , Article , Files , Strings
Advanced Data Validation Using ExtJs
2008-05-08 07:34:00 While working on my personal project tonight I finally got around to going over some of the new examples in the ExtJs documentation. In this case they are demonstrating having a form with a password field, and a confirmation password field, and how you can validate that the second password entered is the same as ... More About: Development , Data , Javascript , Validation
New article on file name and uploading to ColdFusion
2008-05-07 21:35:00 Howdy peeps! New little article talking about cleaning up file names in ColdFusion, useful for when processing a file upload, for example. Check it out! More About: General , Article , File , Coldfusion , Uploading
NTTA to raise speed limits - Woo Hoo!
2008-04-25 17:27:00 Today I learned that the North Texas Toll Authority, affectionately known as NTTA, has requested that the speed limits be raised by 10 miles per hour on our major toll road areas, including the North Dallas Tollway and the President George Bush Tollway. It appears that the NTTA has not raised the speed limits, which ... More About: General , Limits , Speed
New Theme, New Wordpress
2008-04-23 03:17:00 Yes, I know. I seem to have a hard time sticking to one theme. It’s just what I do. More importantly, however, I’d like to announce that I am on the latest, greatest, WordPress 2.5! I’m not going to say too much, because you should probably check it out for yourselves, but I’m diggin’ it. The ... More About: Wordpress , General , Theme
How to Find Yahoo Widgets Offscreen
2008-04-21 20:04:00 For those that enjoy the features offered by the Yahoo ! Widgets you might at some point find yourself in a situation similar to what I experienced today. Somehow, perhaps with my two monitor goodness, and goofing that up by logging into our VPN, I tried to open up the Converter widget, and it never showed ... More About: General , Find , White and Nerdy
Tutorial: .NET XML Into A DataSet
2008-04-09 06:43:00 New tutorial for C# about using XML data in a DataSet object for manipulating the data like it came from a database. See the Software Development section, or go straight to it here. Cheers, and happy coding! More About: Tutorial
Review: Brio Tuscan Grille
2008-04-09 05:08:00 Tonight Maryanne and I went to a lovely restaurant that just opened here in Allen called Brio Tuscan Grille . We were greeted by very nice valet parking attendants who even opened the door for us. Nice. A good start. More About: Review
New Tutorial on Complex Objects in PHP Sessions
2008-04-07 05:42:00 For those PHP programmers out there new to the language I have posted a new tutorial (just a little one ) on how to store and retrieve complex objects (classes) in PHP session ($_SESSION). You can find it under Software Development, or go straight to it here. Cheers! More About: Tutorial , Complex , Objects , Sessions
Horton Hits a Home Run
2008-04-07 00:12:00 As a loveable classic of my childhood, I approached the movie “Horton Hears A Who” with caution. It is not uncommon for Hollywood to screw up movie renditions of things that I cherish. Ok, so maybe cherish is a strong, girlie word… How about awesome and cool. A stretch, but I digress… AnyWHO… To be brief ... More About: Home , Hits , Home Run , The Movies
Adult: Funny Parody About A Popular Shampoo
2008-03-26 23:57:00 Here’s a pretty funny video that parodies a very popular shampoo line of commercials (*cough*& Herbal *cough* Essences). Have to say that the reuslt seems fairly accurate, assuming that the product would actually achieve male orgasm. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/879938/herb al_elements/ More About: Funny , Parody , Popular , Adult , Shampoo
Brawlin!
2008-03-13 06:58:00 YES! After a little more effort, and a bit more patience, we FINALLY got our multiplayer brawl to start up for Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Bout f’n time! I switched out between Yoshi and Marth, Josh switched out between Link and Ike, and Tabitha played Zelda, Donky Kong, and Kirby. I then saved three of our ... More About: Gaming
Death Metal Dog
2008-03-12 22:05:00 A coworker sent me a link to this video today, and I have to say that it made me laugh during what I would call a hectic day. Let’s just say that this dog rocks your ass off! http://www.break.com/index/death-metal-pu ppy.html More About: Metal , Death , Death Metal
Brawl is fun? if you can connect
2008-03-12 06:02:00 So my brother, his friend, and I tried to all hook up and have a nice Super Smash Brothers Brawl beat-em up session on our Wii’s tonight. Didn’t happen. Instead we spent over an hour trying to connect to each other’s hosted games, letting each churn for over 10 minutes each, every time either timing ... More About: Gaming , Connect
Let the Brawl Begin!
2008-03-10 04:57:00 Ladies and gentlemen! I have my copy of Super Smash Brothers Brawl , and it is a blast! I got to play a fair bit today, and had a really great time. I then hooked up online with Maryanne and I on our Wii, and my brother and his wife on theirs for a little four ... More About: Gaming
And the lightbulb lit up?
2008-03-07 07:36:00 In my last post I mentioned I was having issue with remembering the order to draw vertices for quads. Ha… the light came on tonight while I was working on the various tutorials I’ve come across. The bottom and back faces of a cube I am actually drawing the quad from the perspective of viewing ... More About: Open
Learning OpenGL
2008-03-06 16:38:00 In the last two days I have blown the dust film off of the old C++ compiler and jumped back into the world of graphic programming in Open GL. I have maintained a fantasy for many years now of getting into game programming. Being such a fascinating and challenging area of development, as well as the ... More About: Learning
No Expand? Sweet!
2008-02-25 20:27:00 It’s funny the little things you miss as you use a programming language. Although not considered the longest amount of time, I have been using Cold Fusion for over 4 years now. I’ve worked with CFC’s, frameworks, performance tuning, reflection, advanced Java techniques, and more, but somehow seemed to missed one of the most simple, yet ... More About: Sweet
Dallas World Aquarium
2008-02-24 04:52:00 Today Maryanne, the kids and I joined the whole family gang at the Dallas World Aquarium for some fishy fun. Although fairly cool outside the sun was shining and it turned out to be a nice day for an outing. The Dallas Aquarium is a decent enough exhibit, featuring plenty of fish, as well as ...
Useful Javascript Tools
2008-02-21 20:02:00 I’ve been doing a lot of development using ExtJS, which involves a lot of AJAX work. And for anyone who has ever used AJAX you know you must deal with JSON. JSON is fine and dandy, and is certainly the best way to get compact data from a remote call response, but it sure can ... More About: Tools , Development , Javascript
Stupid ISP’s
2008-01-11 04:22:00 For several days now I have been fighting with my computer to get Apache configured so that I can access the site I’m working on, not only from the inside, but also from the outside for demo purposes. I already knew about the UAS stuff everybody warns you about with Vista, and I already had ... More About: Stupid
Excuse me. Where is your chain saw?
2007-12-18 05:06:00 For those that know me it comes as no surprise to learn I grew up in a hick town in north-east Texas. And in that area I have certainly seen my share of interesting hick-culture. I had not, however, seen anything quite like a Big Lots, which I just had the pleasure of going to ... More About: General , White and Nerdy , Excuse , Chain
Ice, Ice, Baby
2007-12-10 03:21:00 Yesterday the family and I went out to Grapevine to see the Gaylord Texan ICE! exhibit. With over 2 million pounds of ice in a 14,000 square foot compound ICE was a very cool (literally and figuratively) experience. Large parkas were provided to ward off the 9 degree temperatures at this winter wonderland, but despite ... More About: Baby , Culture , General
On ColdFusion 7 Arrays
2007-11-12 15:25:00 At Ben Nadel’s Blog, which I enjoy reading simply because he has a similar passion to me (digging into how and why it works under the hood), he talked about calling Java functions in ColdFusion that require an actual value array instead of a vector, which is what ColdFusion’s arrays are based on. He has ... More About: Development , Coldfusion , Arrays
Abbey Hill Park HOA Fall Festival 2K7
2007-10-28 22:34:00 Yesterday we took the kids across the street to the Abbey Hill park. It is a nice little park with a nice play area and gazebo with park benches, all paid for by the members of the Abbey Hill Park HOA. In an effort to get people out of their houses, and more friendly with ... More About: General , Festival , Fall
Taylor?s 8th Birthday
2007-10-28 22:24:00 Last week we also celebrated Taylor ’s 8th birthday down here in the neighborhood park. It was a beautiful day, but SUPER WINDY!! We had to tape everything down with 6-pounds of tape! Grandma and Grandpa showed up, as well as my folks and siblings. Niece Laura made it too. She’s getting too old, way too ... More About: General , Birthday
Halloween Party 2K7-1
2007-10-28 22:07:00 Last weekend Maryanne and I went to a little Halloween party at a friend’s house. Plenty of alcohol on the table, and music on the Ipod, we had a pretty good time. Nevermind the … “things” hanging from the ceiling fan. var nggal6=new Array() nggal6[0]=["DSCF1961.jpg", "DSCF1961.jpg", ""] nggal6[1]=["DSCF1962.jpg", "DSCF1962.jpg", ""] nggal6[2]=["DSCF1963.jpg", "DSCF1963.jpg", ""] nggal6[3]=["DSCF1964.jpg", "DSCF1964.jpg", ""] nggal6[4]=["DSCF1965.jpg", "DSCF1965.jpg", ""] nggal6[5]=["DSCF1966.jpg", "DSCF1966.jpg", ""] nggal6[6]=["DSCF1967.jpg", ... More About: Party , Allo
Reasons for Excitement
2007-10-19 17:08:00 Two reasons for my excitement this morning, and I shall sum them up promptly: Lord of the Rings Online content update, and Street Fighter IV. That’s right, you heard it. Street Fighter IV! I LOVED the old Street Fighter games. I grew up playing those in the arcades all day long, and then on my ... More About: Gaming , Reasons , Excitement , Temen , Excite
Ok, jQuery Is Pimp
2007-10-18 07:07:00 Alright, I’m with Ben Nadel on this one… jQuery is PIMP!! I started playing with it, and although I have barely scratched the surface I can tell that this thing is really powerful. As an example let us say that I have a form with a bunch of text boxes that I want to ... More About: Development , Pimp , Jquery
Yahoo! Widget Converter Issue
More articles from this author:2007-10-16 20:02:00 I ran across an interesting problem today. At work I wrote a Yahoo ! Widget that monitors our web servers’ response time and memory consumption. I had made a few updates and enhancements to it and was ready to release it to the engineers here that use it. To do this you use the Yahoo! Widget Covnerter, ... More About: Development , Converter 1, 2, 3 |
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