Last night we made the trek to Seattle to see Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails. This is a youtube video shot by someone down on the floor section, and although the quality of the video is terrible, I felt it was most representative of the show and the least-terrible of the bunch.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C9RBy9zbeo]
I’ll be adding [...]
I’m getting really annoyed at my current webhost (Godaddy). It’s been very sluggish performance for quite a number of weeks (months?) so I’m considering changing my hosting to a faster more stable hosting solution.
The summer has been good so far, and one side effect (I still can’t decide whether it is good or bad) is a shift in my sleep schedule. Right now it’s an abnormality if I don’t see the sun rise before I go to sleep. I’ve been eating and breathing both PHP and Ruby the [...]
Tonight I was finally able to (mostly) finish updating my programming code page. It’s quite a massive update, and includes a large number of code that myself and others have written, for a variety of different languages. I intend to continue updating the code page as I learn, and write new code. Enjoy.
It occured to [...]
I just finished watching a documentary on the Kevin Mitnick story called “Freedom Downtime” which I would encourage anyone interested in information freedom to watch. The documentary was created by Emmanuel Goldstein and the folks at 2600, and while it may not be a big budget documentary with fancy flair, it serves it’s intended purpose [...]
In developing web applications which need to display any sort of data in categorical form, it is often useful to develop a tree structure not unlike a file system. Sometimes this can involve writing an extension of a linked-list, or some other self-defined structure, but if you’re just using PHP with a couple MySQL relational [...]
In working on a number of different web projects, I’ve had to create search-engine friendly URLs (I.E. ‘dxmio.com/blah/bleh’, instead of ‘dxmio.com/?x=blah&y=bleh’. The way to accomplish this seems to be with .htaccess and mod_rewrite sending everything to a base controller, like ‘index.php’. This of course leaves one very big problem which may not be completely obvious [...]
I’ve got a new visual appearance going for the site. Trying to be more “Web 2.0″ in both look and feel. Comments?