Eric’s Journal

Eric Hepperle’s journal.

My notes on design projects. Includes software design, web design, graphic design, golden ratio, sacred geometry, InDesign, Adobe products, etc. I’m a much better graphic designer than I every was a software developer/engineer.

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Setting Up My New Dell Inspiron 15 (3531) Laptop – Part 3

2014.10.22 Today so far Today is my younger brother’s birthday, so I called an wished him a Happy Birthday. Since this is day 2 of easing back into eating from my fast, I ate a can of Amy’s Thai Coconut soup. It was delicious! I also spent about an hour or so adding images and […]

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Setting Up My New Dell Inspiron 15 (3531) Laptop – Part 1

2014.10.18 Greetings folks, I’ve just received my brand new Dell Inspiron 3531 laptop from Amazon and now I need to setup up and configure it. This will be the first part of an ongoing record of my setup process. This is mostly for my own knowledge, but please feel free to comment if this information

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Google Docs spreadsheet script: compare dates, highlight past dates, highlight weekends, and highlight today

ORIGINAL PROBLEM I spent hours tonight struggling with this Google Apps script I wrote to serve as custom functions or advanced macros. I adapted it from this StackOverflow post. The main issue I ran into was comparing dates. Here is my research path, and hopefully, some indicator as to why it took so long: STEPS

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Screenshot of my jQuery Fancy Paragraphs code in JSFiddle 2013

Fancy HTML Paragraph Styling with jQuery

I wrote this jQuery fiddle in about 5 minutes. It is really simple, but amazingly powerful at the same time. The purpose of this is to instantly style paragraph tags. Here are the style parameters: Background color: Manila (light beige-ish/yellow) Border color: Orange Drop-shadow: Yes Rounded-rectangle: Yes I want to make the code easily available

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Heroku Web Hosting — A Web Design Masterpiece

Heroku | Pricing. NOTE: I dig this site because of it being a real “concept art” theme-type creating. Well designed, well crafted — associating different “characters” or “archetype” levels is brilliant — should strike a chord with those familiar with video games, or any sport or activity in which you progress through various levels (like

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The Agony of Looping and Doing Foreach In XP DOS

07/07/12 It has been a primary goal of mine for several years to write a Windows program, in either DOS or Perl, to automate changing the folder icon in a batch of subdirectories.  It is quite tedious to do this process manually, and when I am trying to customize folder icons this process can eat

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Free CSS Image Bullets: Marijuana Weed Leaf with Drop Shadow

Free CSS Image Bullets: Marijuana Weed Leaf with Drop Shadow Why I’m Publishing These Images For Everyone to Use: I created these marijuana/weed/hemp/ganja css image bullets yesterday. It took about 30 minutes to locate and try various leaf images and select a final one, and the work itself took about 1.5 hours to design and

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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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