Monthly Archives: September 2010

Trimming all members of an array in PHP

Needed a quick way to go through and trim leading and trailing spaces off of a string array in PHP. I’ve used array_walk to do it before, but with the addition of anonymous functions it makes it a little quicker … Continue reading

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Using a U-Verse STB as an ethernet bridge

Discovered a few weeks ago that an AT&T U-Verse cable box would work as a HPNA to Ethernet bridge. With the cable signal coming through the coax line to the STB the ethernet jack on the back was live and … Continue reading

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JayCut – Online video editor

Haven’t had a chance to play around with it much, but JayCut.com looks pretty slick. It’s an online video editor written in Flash so you can do your editing without leaving your browser. Probably not great for the 20 gigs … Continue reading

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Solving a Rubik’s Cube while skydiving

Two things I’ve never done and probably never will, skydiving and solving a Rubik’s Cube, and this guy does both at the same time.

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String methods in Scratch BYOB

Each of the last 3 years we’ve been able to get more and more out of Scratch as it went from 1.2 to 1.4, and especially now with the BYOB 3 version from Berkeley. Adding in the ability to have … Continue reading

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Where Americans are moving

Cool use of technology and data mining. Forbes.com has a map that lets you click on a county and see where people are moving into and out of that county. Red is out of the county and red is in … Continue reading

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’bout time for a new theme

Seemed like a good time to change themes here… and after searching around for a couple of hours the one I liked best was the TwentyTen theme that comes with WordPress. Go figure. Needs a little more customization, but it’s … Continue reading

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CompSci Minor and employment

Came across a new blog to add to my reader last week called CompSci Woman. I’m always on the lookout for articles to give my students that show computer science as something other than the Office Space view of a … Continue reading

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