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jQuery/JavaScript/CSS 3/HTML 5, Java/PHP/Python/ActionScript, Git, Chrome/Firefox Extensions, Wordpress/Game/iPhone App Development and other random techie tidbits I've collected

Douglas Crockford – JavaScript the Good Parts

Really good lecture on JavaScript, especially if you are new to the language from another language like Java.

Let the Cloud Wars Begin!!!

This is all going the same direction. They are all going to end up with unlimited storage for the same price point per year, so, the sooner one of them calls it and just offers that, the better that one will do. They need to just do that, get it out of the way, and [...]

dynode Batch Get Item

Working a lot with node.js, dynode and dynamoDB recently. Still trying to wrap my head around it all. Had a horrible time getting dynode.batchGetItem to work. Here is the error I was getting: { name: ‘AmazonError’, type: ‘ValidationException’, serviceName: ‘com.amazon.coral.validate’, message: ‘One or more parameter values were invalid: Mismatching attribute types between location and schema’, [...]

WP phpBB Bridge: Warning: mysql_set_charset() expects parameter 2 to be resource, boolean given

Warning: mysql_set_charset() expects parameter 2 to be resource, boolean given in wp-content/plugins/wp-phpbb-bridge/inc/widgets/wpbb_topics_widget.php on line 149 This is an error caused by the fact that the WP phpBB Bridge plugin is naively written in places. For instance, in this case the plugin authors don’t expect you to be using a socket instead of a port. Looking [...]

Events Calendar Pro Nav Formatting Messed up on Empty Calendar

The Events Calendar Pro (from http://tri.be/) has a few problems. If you are trying to figure out why a calendar with no events in that month has completely screwed up header navigation, just put this line of code inside of table.php in the top of the display_day function (put it directly before the for loop): [...]

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"Hey, Thank you! Your explanation helped me a lot!"

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"Thanks for the fine script. Should anyone, like me, get an error like "UnicodeDecode..."

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Google’s Got It…

Found my game listed in the google gadget directory today. Cool. The only problem was that I had to type in “McCulloh” into the search box in order to find it. How is anyone ever going to find it that way? If you do...

by Christopher McCulloh

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You Can Have It

Added “splode()” method to ruby. Now, whenever you are hit by the bull or the bug, rubies will “splode” out of you, gone forever off of the bottom edge of the screen… Last night at a party, Art poi...

by Christopher McCulloh

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“Dell Wars”: Episode V – The Dellpire Strikes Back

After boxing up my old computer and sending it off to Dell, I began playing Half Life 2: Episode 1. The third day I went to play it, It started crashing. It would crash every time I played after playing for 60 seconds. NOOOOOOO...

by Christopher McCulloh

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