Archive for 2007

Concentration at Work

You dont often see this amount of concentration where I work!

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Check out this MASSIVE Printer

I love how they made it look just like a normal desktop printer, just really really big.

Imagine trying to buy new ink cartridges for this thing.

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Links of the Day

Cool Eclipse Plugins to make development with Eclipse even better
300+ Tools for your Wordpress Blog
Brazilian Waxing O_o
Google Gears lets users use your web application offline
Member Management System with Scriptaculous is a comprehensive user management system
pQuery lets use use the power of jQuery with pure PHP
Asp.Net is a useful resource for ASP development
BlogDesk is a powerful [...]

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Cork Soaking

An extremely funny skit on the ancient art of cork soaking.

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Fix for StatTraq Calendar bugs

The StatTraq plugin for Wordpress has a bug where the Year and Month time periods are not displayed correctly. Here is a fix for the problem.
Download this StatTraq Calendar Patch. Extract calendar.php from the file and copy it into your \wp-stattraq folder, replacing the file that already exists there.
Now when you check your StatTraq statistics, [...]

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Useful Javascripts

Walter Zorn has useful javascripts for vector graphics, drag and drop, tooltips and image rotation.
YUI-EXT is a comprehensive Javascript library for developing web applications.
Vector graphics class for Ext
Tree panel with context menu
Drag and drop in a grid
Modern Blue Design has an interesting article on how to fight spam using CSS

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Martial Arts Moves Revealed in Fight Science Lab

Solomani did a great summary of this Martial Arts documentary I watched last year. Basically it goes through a bunch of martial arts myths and abilities and uses science to figure out if it’s true and how they do it. Essentially they used a modified $150,000 crash-test dummy for the testing. Here are [...]

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Using MS-Access with MySQL

In a project I was working on recently, I moved the backend database from Microsoft Access to MySQL. It worked for the most part, but every so often I would get Write Conflict errors on certain rows of a table.
write conflict
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Best Web 2.0 Web Sites

Real World Software Development has a comprehensive list of web 2.0 web sites including bookmarking sites, social communities, email, image and video sharing, and the list is getting longer.
One application that has been omitted from all the lists I’ve seen so far is Outlook Web Access from Microsoft. Sure, it needs a Microsoft Exchange server [...]

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The Bumptop Desktop

This YouTube video demonstrates a prototype desktop GUI which allows you to manage your documents in the same way as you organize books on your desk. You can drag documents around, stack them into piles, shuffles them by type, and file them into bookshelves. As well as the usual documents like PDF and Word, it [...]

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