I'm a 37'ish year old web application developer from South Portland, Maine. I love meeting fellow techies, drop me a line if you want to talk shop.
Posted on 07/14/2007 at 12:19 PM
I’m posting this here as reference for both myself and anyone else that it might benefit. Its a plan of attack I documented on CodeIgniter’s community forums in order to host multiple sites off a single install base .. its primarily intended to help share code across applications.
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Posted on 07/08/2007 at 12:18 PM
I created this image a while ago for my buddy Monty using some pictures he’d sent me of his new baby, Andy. I’m posting it here so that our other friends can see it as well. (created with a neat little app called Comic Life)
Posted on 06/10/2007 at 12:17 PM
At work, I’m shifting gears and readying to write v2.0 of our web software. Where in the past I have always worked alone, we are now hiring a part time developer to take up some of the slack.
This was incentive for me to adopt new open source frameworks to build on this time around, intsead of coding everything from scratch as I usually do. I’m quite happy with the software we chose. After having spent some time with each package, I can’t recommend them enough. Here’s a list of what we ended up with.
Posted on 06/09/2007 at 12:17 PM
I’m impressed. I updated my copy of Parallels yesterday and WindowsXP now runs at native speed (without a reboot) on my quad core Mac Pro. XP also uses accelerated graphics now ... *drool* ... The last thing on my wish-list is for Parallels to allow XP to run off multiple processors. Good news: I saw an optimistic post yesterday from an admin on their forums ....
Posted on 05/18/2007 at 12:17 PM
I did some searching today on an issue I was having with Apple’s Mail program.
Posted on 04/18/2007 at 12:16 PM
Early Monday morning I went to bed at my usual time, about 4:30 am. The winds were howling and I’d just finished my latest Java assignment for class. A good friend of mine, Barnaby from Connecticut, had just text’ed me some sorry images of his house being flooded by the coming storm. The rain was hard but I didn’t think hard enough to warrant that sort of concern for myself here in Maine ... little did I know.
Posted on 04/08/2007 at 12:15 PM
As the title states, this is the next iteration of my Sonar applet. I’ve added a “ping” collision sound, optimized the classes a little and added key commands to pause (P) the animation and show the FPS (D). I also discovered the proper way to reference the sound files internally so it works as an applet and an application. You’ll notice there are 2 tracker lines now ... only the first one is used for collision testing, the second tracker line is simply a place holder for a feature I am trying to add.
Posted on 03/05/2007 at 12:14 PM
I am uploading this dummy applet I wrote to try out a new java applet embedding plug-in that I found for Wordpress. Its called Snapplets and was written by Steve Winton. Now that I see it working I am pretty impressed. It could use a little more work, I may have to modify it further. Thanks Steve.
View the applet after the jump.
Posted on 03/04/2007 at 12:14 PM
Man oh man, today is a day I will never forget, the day I learned to use Subversion.
Subversion is a server-side piece of software you use to do version control on your documents. It’s particularly useful in situations where more than one person will be editing those documents. You edit your files locally and then commit those changes to a server, at which point someone else is able to safely check them out again, edit away and then upload their versions over yours. The important thing to note: older versions are always still accessible.
Posted on 03/03/2007 at 12:13 PM
I took this evening to update the engine that my website is built upon to the 2.1.2 release of Wordpress.
I ran into an odd problems along the way, a situation where all the site seemed to work fine except that I was unable to load the “Manage” (/wp-admin/edit.php) posts page. All that would come up was a white page. After some investigation, I found a post where at least one other person had experienced the same problem.
Often times I will release code for free or go that extra distance to help others online. If my skills were useful to you, please consider a small donation. Thank you very much.
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I can usually be found lounging on irc.freenode.net while I work, on the following channels: #fauna, #github, #hello-heroku, #jquery, #passenger, #ruby, #rubyonrails, #slicehost, #sproutcore, #textmate, #werenot.