Learning C++
If you’re looking to learn C++, looks like some good CS tutorials for C++ are available here.
80’s board game time!
This flash recreation of the Dark Tower board game from the 80’s is a true labor of love. Don’t confuse it with the comic strip Dork Tower.
About HTTP Caching
PHP Anthology, Volume 2: Applications. Chapter 5: Caching: For example, the content delivered by a dynamic page may change once a day, so there’s certainly a benefit to be gained by having the browser cache a page-even if only for twenty four hours. It’s usually possible to live with both problems given a small PHP
MLS Stars going abroad
If you haven’t kept up with the unusual flurry of transfer activity in the MLS off-season, this piece summarizes and analyzes the how losing top players to European leagues impacts MLS. If you need a login don’t use bigsoccer@bigsoccer.com / bigsoccer. The reasons for these moves make sense – as in dollars and cents. Just
Reminder to Self
Never make a massive upgrade to my blog software on the same night you announce a release on freshmeat…
Update to PHP Calendar Class
my PHP Calendar Class. I Fixed a bug that cause the calendar to display improperly if the month begins on a sunday. Added 4 new public methods: getStartTime(), getEndTime(), setMonth(), and setYear(). View source. Download source.
TiVo measures audience reaction to Super Bowl
Guilty as charged, Staci and I rewound the infamous incident and played it on slow a couple times to make sure we saw what we really saw. We then fell asleep for most of the second half. The close of Timberlake and Jackson’s half time duet drew the biggest spike in audience reaction TiVo has
HOWTO: Reduce Bandwidth waste of PHP Scripts
While not directly scripting related, this article on HTTP Conditional GETs should be of interest to anyone who generates dynamic pages. I’ll concentrate purely on RSS files, but the concepts used here can be applied to any page in the weblog, and may further reduce the bandwidth usage for your users.
Tivo Todo: after the wedding…
Explore tivo hmo and Java Home Media Option for Tivo, setup tivo on home network…
Om Malik’s Analysis of Tivo’s Strangeberry acquisition.
TiVo, the digital hub, powered by Strangeberry? Something like this might spur more people to set up a wireless network at home. So what are they really building? My best guess is that Strangeberry crew, all former Sun folks, developed a piece of software that actually makes finding devices on the home networks as easy
Om Malik’s Analysis of Tivo’s Strangeberry acquisition. Read More »