Software Development

Quick Tip: SVN over SSH using TortoisePlink

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

This place is as good as any to jot down the following tip…
TortoiseSVN kicks ass. Of course, there are times when it’s more practical to use svn in the command line, but if your repository only talks to you over ssh, instead of going through hoops to configure OpenSSH, just use TortoisePlink. It’s part […]

PHP Cracks Me Up Sometimes

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

This should probably go under “it’s really funny right now, but will seem very uninteresting tomorrow.”

FRIEND: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.is-writable.php
ME: haha
FRIEND: yeah
ME: is_that_what_i_think_it_is()
FRIEND: is_that_really_what_i_think_it_is()
ME: aliased to is_this_what_i_really_want()
FRIEND: i looked it up real quick because someone had the wrong spelling in it in our code
ME: which returns constats, including IM_NOT_SURE_WHY_DONT_U_ASK_PERL_THAT
ME: haha that’s a funny blog write up
ME: i […]

Stupid Web Tricks: Orbiting Domo-Kun

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

I just whipped up this simple orbiting domo-kun animation in JavaScript. After playing around with JavaScript’s Math trig methods (particularly Math.sin and Math.cos), one thing led to another, and after watching a few domo-kun videos on YouTube, I was inspired to use its picture in the effect.

Blogging & Tech Stuff

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Apparently, the first rule about blogging is to write about blogging.
I don’t know how guys in my profession can just write informatively, pleasantly, or incessantly about web development, be it “web standards,” JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, the best implementation of X, or the most elegant way of doing Y even though I can ramble […]