It’s been a fair amount of time since I last posted warning of the dry spell in my blogging, but I think things have stabilized to a point where I can offer some words.
Of course, the primary reason for my busyness as of late is the 4 classes I’m taking this quarter, CSCD350 Software Engineering, [...]
There is likely going to be a several month pause in my blog postings, because I’m caught in a tidal wave of work + 4 class projects (2 of which I have to manage).
See you in March.
So I posted a significant update to PHCL in which I reworked all the classes to be less dependent on one another (most are completely independent). The goal is of course to make the classes more modular, so that changing one portion will not cause problems in another. This is of course common good practice, [...]
In constructing various web applications, there is typically a common set of functionality needed by all of them, and I thought it might be nice to develop my own library with this purpose in mind. As it stands, this project is MASSIVELY incomplete, needing lots of work before it can be considered respectable. This is [...]
For this upcoming quarter our instructor has slated a colleague and I to develop a web application in PHP using a MSSQL database, seperate from the standard student projects. In preparation for this, I decided to set up a development box so we could get started early. It was completely unnecessary for us to get [...]
I’ve spent the past couple days working towards getting a common development environment set up, so that I don’t have to use different IDE’s and tools. I’m trying to get everything situated, since Winter quarter is likely to be one of the most programming intensive quarters that I’ve had. I want to be prepared, so [...]
So I was browsing around today for interesting problems to solve, in the style of programming competitions, and I came across the following problem:
What is the smallest integer that is evenly divisible by all the numbers from 1 to 20?
Here was my solution:
<?php
$max = 20*19*18*17*16*15*14*13*12*11;
for($i = 20; $i < $max; $i+=20)
{
$found = true;
for($j = 19; [...]
I accumulate interesting links from time to time. This will be an ongoing theme. Today’s links:
PHP and Rails: variable differences
Common Mistakes in Software Development
How to Stay Awake at Work
Analyzing Malicious SSH Login Attempts
68 Linux Related Free E-Books
So let me tell you a little story about phpBB.
Tonight I spent about 7 hours dissecting a problem with phpBB. I attempted to perform some code-level modifications to the forum to allow people to view unread topics on www.EWUcs.com (you can see it now in the upper-right hand corner of the screen).
During this process I [...]
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 [...]