JFA Report (Just Freekin Awesome!): Custom R2-D2 Robot at Auto Show

2012 Lone Star Round Up – RD-D2 just chillin Red Stripe Phototography – 2012 Lone Star Round UP – Part 2: R2-D2. This one is for the Star-Wars officionados.  I’m not sure if this is a custom built or this, if it’s stock or from a kit.  Couldn’t find any information through google either.  I’d […]

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Book: Facebook Application Development for Dummies, 2012

Facebook Obsoletes Less Than Year-Old Facebook Application Development For Dummies Book!

Facebook Obsoletes Less Than Year-Old Facebook Application Development For Dummies Book! 2012.04.17 Just a quick rant here.  In what must be some kind of record, Facebook has pretty much made obsolete the book Facebook Application Development For Dummies (Wiley, by Jesse Stay), which I purchased about 7 months ago (August 2011 — only 3 months

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Zemanta Puts Unwanted HTML Comments In Pre-Formatted PHP Code (Sourcecode) In WordPress Posts

PROBLEM: I  have recently determined through trial and error and process of elimination that Zemanta is responsible for adding extraneous HTML comments to my pre-formatted (with “pre” tags) PHP code that I have placed between “sourcecode” tags to activate WordPress.com’s built in programming code syntax highlighting. Here is a screenshot (fig 1.) that demonstrates the

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Building A PHP Database Connection Class From Scratch (using Singleton & ActiveRecord patterns)

Greetings folks. Tonight I’m studying on how to create a PHP Object-Oriented MySQL database connection class.  This will be reusable and able to be implemented in any database driven web application built with PHP & MySQL.  It uses the ActiveRecord and Singleton design patterns. I’m currently following this YouTube tutorial: Using OOP PHP to select,

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PHP View Utilities Code Debugger – A Wrapper For print_r function

Greetings folks. If you’ve ever gotten tired of having to type: [sourcecode language=”php” htmlscript=”true”] echo "<pre>"; print_r($some_var); echo "</pre>"; [/sourcecode] you are going to love the little debugger class I built. This is a very simple, basic class which doesn’t use patterns or anything fancy.  Actually, it may indeed use patterns that I’m not familiar

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Powershell – Executing commands which require quotes and variables is practically impossible!

I’ve spent the last 2 hours reading an interesting bug report/forum thread about how executing commands which require quotes and variables in PowerShell is difficult (this was originally posted on Microsoft Connect, which no longer exists; replaced with archive.org link). I’m trying to understand how to properly quote commands with parameters and interpolated paths so

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Mozilla Collusion Could Be A Godsend For Privacy Advocates – Is Google Adwords-Adsense In Jeopardy?

Mozilla unveiled a new privacy add-on called Collusion last Wednesday (February 29). Developed by Mozilla’s in-house programmers, and backed by the Ford Foundation, Collusion enables you to se a visual relationship map of all the advertisers and entities who are tracking your online activity, in real-time. Gary Kovacs, (CEO of Mozilla), had this to say

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Q & A: How To Make Div’s With Rounded Corners In CSS?

Question: How can I make boxes and div’s with rounded corners? Answer: CSS3 is the first version to have built-in rounded rectangle commands. The css property that addresses is this: border-radius It’s usage is: border-radius: 15px; Fairly simple and straight-forward; the higher the number the deeper the corner rounding. If you have an older browser

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Q & A: How To Schedule Publishing Of Multiple Posts in WordPress?

Hi folks, I’ve been receiving some tech questions lately so I decided I’d start answering them on the blog so others can benefit as well. Our next question is from Nadine in Houston, TX: Question: How do I schedule multiple posts in WordPress.com?  For instance, let’s say I want to make a queue or stack

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