I am starting to get the feeling that my technical contact is feeling outgunned. I am a fat slob IRL but I got 24″ hacker guns. Watch as I kiss the left one and then the right one.
He is starting to clam up and I don’t hear back from my emails or my phone calls. That’s a natural reaction to the situation I describe. Software and IT is competitive and being quiet is a position of weakness.
I talk this shit now because I am going to give the guy a call tomorrow and hash it out. I have plenty respect for the Hobbyist. Computers are fucking lame so if you want to minimize your time investment, I respect that.
Rebuilding on Linux »« OKAY
I AM GONNA GO ALL CAPS WITH THIS ONE AND SAY THAT I GOT THE FIRST LOOK AT THIS NEW PROJECT RUNNING ON MY LOCAL SERVER. THE PAGE LOOKS GREAT. TOO BAD NONE OF THE STRUTS 1 STUFF WORKS! BUT IT’S OKAY I LIKE THIS A LOT MORE NOW.
Hobbyist Level »« Ad Blocking via Hosts Files
There’s this new project that I am working on I don’t want to say too much about it but I’m going to use this space to keep a few generic notes about it.
This is a well-built project but it’s going off into areas that I know little about.
FOP…some printing library which uses XSL and is run by Java.
They’re running two instances of apache side-by-side. Apache version 1.3 and Tomcat v4 (maybe v3). MySQL 3 something. Migrating to MySQL 5.
Ad Blocking via Hosts Files »« Flexigrid Tips
Flexigrid is a new-to-me javascript datagrid which is built on jQuery. It’s been good to me so far, I just got my first real use of this script working.
To begin with, I needed some extra parameters in my example, specifically a date which I’m using jQuery datepicker to select. I began by adding in my new parameter called “dt”, I searched through the unpacked flexigrid source for the other parameters it uses. In this case I chose page, and once I found it I just added in a new line and put in my dt parameter.
The next step was to get my calendar to update this new property when the user selects a different date. To do this I am trapping the onClose event in the datepicker and then I use the following snippet to notify the grid of the change:
$('#report-tbl').flexOptions({dt: newDt});
$('#report-tbl').flexReload();
The first sets the new value and the second line repopulates the grid from it’s JSON source.
Notes »« JSON, JSONP, Yahoo Pipes, Yadda Yadda
my main rig, a thinkpad (lenovo) t61 broke down about ten days ago. seems like a year. the 3d chip (nvidia m140) went tits-up, which put an end to my unity 3d experiments.
i’m playing around with pixelpipe.com tonight and really like what this can do for me. i do more writing than just this one blog and pixelpipe gives me an easy way to aggregate them all. it provides an at-symbol syntax for directing messages, and they just released a client application for the Android (TMobile G1) platform. the pixelpipe service really hits a sweet-spot for me. i run blogs on my own domains (this blog included) using wordpress, and after enabling xml-rpc i could post to them through pixelpipe. i have twitter, posterous, and tumblr accounts i dabble in. all of these are supported, as is photobucket. just a neat new tool.
surprisingly, when i used pixelpipe’s quick post form to tag my post, those tags showed up in the wordpress blog. very nice! one problem i see is that the markup of my post seemed weird, with no paragraph tags. i did not view the result in the public end so i cannot say what it looked like i just quickly dropped in the <p> tags. i could maybe start typing out my <p> tags as a workaround anyway.
photobucket’s registration prompted this post actually. they had a UI element that i’d not seen before. they had a password-strength coloring built into the password textbox. that’s a really cool idea and one i haven’t seen before. better patent that because i am definitely going to steal that idea.
on the other hand, photobucket seemed to bar me from getting an account after i’d mistakenly said i was twelve years old. i guess that’s good but i just went to imageshack instead. i tried fixing it and resubmitting but no dice.
another thing i wanted to tout tonight was the really cool temporary email service called 10 Minute Mail. sometimes you want to make some throwaway accounts for some online service like photobucket or imageshack but they require an email address at signup. 10 Minute Mail is perfect for this kind of thing. They give you an email address that works for ten minutes and then it’s gone. It has all the features of a plain everyday online email account but it is entirely temporary. Pretty cool.
the last new thing for me is running ubuntu on my new dell mini 9 netbook. i’d struggled with getting mac os x running on it but it was a royal pain in the ass. you need a mac to get it running and i felt bad for my poor friend who had to drag himself over here with the equipment and sit with me waiting on progress bars. the mini 9 came loaded with xp and i can always go back to that but i’m sticking with ubuntu for now. i’ve got about two-thirds of the 8GB solid-state disk remaining. with xp and os x i had less than one-third of the drive remaining. everything is going web-based anyway. the OS is becoming irrelevant. hail satan!
JSON, JSONP, Yahoo Pipes, Yadda Yadda »« joomla username
the username field is limited to 25, the email field is set to 100. i made a mistake and during my import process moved a set of emails into the username column. oops.
i just changed the column length to 100 and nothing exploded.
new shit i’m into »« Blah Blah Blah
