actionscript 2, so dumb it works
There's something strangely satisfying about switching gears from a well structured language like Ruby all the way back to the days of actionscript 2. It brings me back a little. Actionscript 2 has a...
View Articleadding a jQuery table sorter parser
We're getting ready to launch a new college football site for the upcoming Fresno State Bulldogs season. The site uses a table to display a player roster. Adding sortable columns to the table is a snap...
View Articletrying to use PDT with GCJ, again
After upgrading to Intrepid Ibex Alpha 5, I was presented with a familiar problem. I knew I had dealt with this at least a half-dozen times in the past, but I never seem to learn. It all happened when...
View Articleextending Zend_Controller_Action
Once you understand all the basic concepts of writing programs, the practice of software development can sometimes devolve into a simple exercise in pattern recognition. If you catch yourself writing...
View Articledjango database fixtures are not good
[flickr-photo:id=2225768345,size=t]I've been working on a project using django, and I've got some great things to say about it. I also have some nasty things to say. I'm currently prototyping, which...
View Articleworst javascript of the year award
I was looking at the bottomless pit of badly-written and malformed javascript that loads on fresnobee.com the other day and noticed a peculiar filename loading multiple times (of-course) in our...
View Articleopenwrt wifi radio part 1
[flickr-photo:id=3145072499,size=t]I've been inspired by Jeff Keyzer to build a wifi radio. I've wanted for a long time to build a wifi radio to play internet radio and music from an arbitrary remote...
View Articleopenwrt wifi radio part 2
[flickr-photo:id=3019931749,size=t]In part 1 of this series, I took an Asus router and loaded openwrt onto it. I added an LCD display and connected it to the serial port on the router board. At this...
View Articlethe greatest thing about open source software
Most people who even know the term, think of open source software as software you don't have to pay for. I'd like to use my tiny blog as a platform to help eliminate that limited and even incorrect...
View ArticleI use ORMs (and so should you)
[flickr-photo:id=3835364867,size=m]This blog entry is directed mainly at the body of web developers who have very little formal training but are trying to improve their own skill sets. As I've matured...
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