Every year my in-laws do the whole “drawing names” thing at Christmas, where each person draws one other person and buys a gift for them. Nearly as often, there’s drama about it. Someone complains about “always” getting someone else. Someone gets themself (that was me this year). I decided to remove the human element from […]
Back in July I wrote a bit about my implementation of AWS ElasticTranscoder within DetroitHockey.Net’s multimedia archives. I knew as I was writing it that I wanted to take it a step further and I got the chance to do that last week, presenting an expanded version of my post as a lecture at TechSmith’s […]
Over the past week or so I’ve been a little too obsessed with Cookie Clicker. It’s an awesome little JavaScript-based game and I can’t just leave it alone. I’m at a point in the game where it takes hours before I can buy the next item I’m looking for. Just out of curiousity, I was […]
Sometime soon I’ll write a bit on my new-ish philosophy about code samples. For now it’s enough to say that I’m cleaning out that section of my site but there’s one project I wanted to keep documented, so I’m writing it up here and now even though the code is from 2005. The “Opening Night […]
Over the last couple weeks I’ve spent some time playing around with Chrome development and Google Hangout extensions. Nothing revolutionary by any means but there were a couple interesting things I came across that I figured I’d share out. One thing I found slightly funny is that both Chrome extensions and Hangout extensions are JavaScript […]
I’ve had a “multimedia” section on DetroitHockey.Net since about the third day the site existed but I haven’t always done a good job keeping said multimedia in a usable format. For awhile all of the videos were in QuickTime format, then I jumped over to Windows Media. There were whole seasons of hockey where I […]
Note: This post was updated on March 4, 2021, to replace references to outdated code. A couple weeks ago I wrote up a bit about a PHP wrapper object I’d written for the Twitter API v1.1. Since then I’ve been playing with the Trello API a bit, so I figured I’d write that up as […]
Note: This post was updated on March 4, 2021, to replace references to outdated code. I’d been using the relatively-awesome TwitterOAuth library by Abraham Williams for quite some time to handle interactions between my sites and Twitter’s REST API v1. With Twitter having eliminated v1 of the API, I started looking into other options. It’s […]
This is something I put together and never wrote up, so I might as well do so now. Snagit by TechSmith is one of my favorite programs; I love being able to share what I’m seeing on my screen with collaborators and clients for easy comparisons with what they’re seeing. With Snagit, there are several […]
Just had an interesting SQL question dropped in my lap, figured I’d share the results since it was something I assumed was possible but actually ended up working exactly as I expected, for once. A friend has a system that he uses to track what baseball uniforms were worn in each game. Each game has […]