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 […]
I’d been extremely resistant to adopting third-party tools in my development efforts for a very long time. I liked owning my tools end-to-end and I liked writing my own code just for the sake of knowing exactly how it worked. I didn’t even have a Gmail account because I was running my own mail server […]
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Note: This post was updated on March 4, 2021, to replace references to outdated code.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 […]
I’ve written about one of my favorite charity events on DetroitHockey.Net before but with Mario Marathon on it’s sixth iteration this weekend, I thought I’d say something here. Mario Marathon features a group of guys playing their way through the core Super Mario video games, streaming their efforts online in a telethon-like fundraiser for Child’s […]
Note: This post was updated on March 4, 2021, to replace references to outdated code.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 […]
I’m a big alternate history geek and I recently stumbled onto a thread at AlternateHistory.com asking “What if Mark Hamill had been killed in the car accident that occurred between the filming of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back?” “Gone The New Hope” covers more than just the possible development of the Star Wars saga, branching […]
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 […]
A friend was just installing Ad Block Plus on a new machine and sent the following screenshot to me: There’s something I find highly ironic about the maker of software that limits publishers’ ability to make money asking for donations to continue doing so. There are a lot of sites out there that use horrible […]