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Category Archives: Computers & Internet
Quick Fix for OpenX Redirect Loop
Last week I installed OpenX on my server to use for an upcoming project. After getting it installed and setup admin-side, I went and made sure the zones looked right on the project site. Chrome gave me an error that … Continue reading
WordPress recent posts as JSON
For an update to one of my web projects I went looking for a way to get the recent posts as JSON instead of using the RSS feed. I personally find JSON much easier to deal with than RSS, so … Continue reading
days_ago function for PHP
Can’t take credit for all of this, but I also don’t remember where the code that I started with came from. days_ago is a function that will take two dates and return a more human friendly version of dates. So … Continue reading
PHP function to get first n words from a string
A handy little function for your bag of tricks. This PHP function will return a max number of words out of a string, or the whole string if it’s already shorter. This probably could be made shorter, but I was … Continue reading
fsockopen / fgets very slow in PHP
I’ve been using a PHP class in a project that pulls a URL and then caches the result so it doesn’t have to get loaded again until it’s considered stale. Works pretty well, but every time it went out to … Continue reading
Posting to Twitter with PHP and OAuth class
Needed a bit of an update on a font site I threw up a few years ago. Specifically I wanted to put a script together to tweet a random font each day. Should have been easy since I already had … Continue reading
Printing a single frame from a Flash project
Bit of a duh moment after finally finding a solution to this. What I needed was a way to print a single frame out of a Flash project. Pretty easy to print the first frame, or all frames, but I … Continue reading
Set WordPress image to “none”
Been using WordPress for a while now. Heck, this blog has been running WP since 2007. So it’s really sad that it took until today for me to figure this out. Putting an image inline to a post defaults to … Continue reading
How to create a wine glass in Blender
Looking to create a simple wine glass in Blender 2.5/2.6? Yes, there’s quite a few steps. But it’s remarkably easy to do. First step is to create the default cube. Right click to select it and press either Delete or … Continue reading
How to create a very simple space game in Flash
Admit it, you’ve played an online game while at work. And odds are very good it was written in Flash / ActionScript. We’re going to cook up a very simple Flash project that might serve as the start of a … Continue reading