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Time to take a look at Python I guess
April 25, 2007 - 8:52 pm
Tags: python, ruby
Posted in miscellaneous | 5 comments
I was reading Reddit today and came across an interesting article titled Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle. My girlfriend and I enjoy doing Sudoku quite a bit, so an article about solving them obviously caught my eye. I clicked through and arrived at what appeared to be an essay written by Peter Norvig who is (was?) [...]
Country list formatted for MySQL import
April 14, 2007 - 7:32 pm
Tags: database, mysql
Posted in miscellaneous | 25 comments
To break my hiatus here at dev|sushi I decided to publish something I made for myself while working on a project for my freelance business. The form I am creating requires a country selection box and then later to display country names within the application. Instead of doing a god awful static select box on [...]
Kinetic Typography: typographic treatment of an audio sample
February 26, 2007 - 1:56 pm
Tags: typography
Posted in miscellaneous | 2 comments
kinetic [adj.] Of, relating to, or produced by motion. typography [n.] The general character or appearance of printed matter. I was browsing through the typography tagged bookmarks on Ma.gnolia.com over the weekend and ran into a video that I found extremely engaging to watch. The video was comprised of lyrics moving on screen set to [...]
MSN Video Sucks
February 18, 2007 - 11:48 pm
Posted in miscellaneous | 3 comments
Online video has now become a mainstay on the internet. There are hundreds of video hosting sites and literally millions of videos. Missed Jon Stewart’s latest headlines or that Bush zinger everyone at work is talking about? How about Stephen Colbert’s The Word segment? Don’t fret it is on the Internet.
Five things about me
February 4, 2007 - 10:03 pm
Posted in miscellaneous | 1 comment
I was tagged by Megan (soon to be) McDerrmott. The idea is that you say five things that people don’t know about you and then tag five other people. I’ll get to my five things in a moment but first I wanted to share some analysis that I did of this current meme.
Blackberry MP3 Player Instructions
February 4, 2007 - 12:17 pm
Tags: blackberry, mobile
Posted in miscellaneous | 9 comments
I have previously commented on the Blackberry Pearl in an unfavourable but not totally bad light. I stand behind my position, this device will only satisfy a select market. That being said I wrote this up to give people a guide to using the media player on the Pearl as an MP3 player. By default [...]
ASP.Net file download protection through authentication
January 31, 2007 - 8:04 pm
Tags: asp.net
Posted in miscellaneous | 9 comments
Recently at work I needed to allow for the download of sensitive files over the web. Right away your mind should jump to the security issues involved with such an undertaking. How do you allow for download without compromising the sensitive data? There is a simple but flexible method that will work perfectly.
ASP.Net Dynamic Controls (Part 4)
January 19, 2007 - 2:49 am
Tags: asp.net
Posted in miscellaneous | 14 comments
I’ve had several people ask about redrawing a page that contains Dynamic Controls. The idea is that you have a page with a “Save” button that posts back but the page reloads exactly as it was. You can think of it like the “Apply” button in Windows but on a web page. The heart of [...]
Rollyo Comment Spam
January 3, 2007 - 11:21 pm
Tags: seo
Posted in miscellaneous | No comments
I’ve been getting a lot of comment spam lately of the Rollyo query variety. Rollyo is a web property that offers user customizable search. You create yourself a list of trusted sites and then your search is restricted to those sites only. Over time you build a strong list of these trusted sites so that [...]
ASP.Net Dynamic Controls (Part 3)
December 23, 2006 - 6:10 am
Tags: asp.net, css/xhtml
Posted in miscellaneous | 5 comments
I have received a few requests via email and in comments for more detail on how to get your data back after postback with dynamic controls. This evening I started to put together some code examples and mulled over the details of the article in my head. The first step was to re-read my previous [...]